We shouldn't worry too much about the alleged release delay of Grand Theft Auto 6.
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There was a lot of fuss about GTA 6 this week: Rockstar is said to be lagging behind in development, which could mean a release delay until 2026. This caused a lot of excitement on social media and even caused the share price of publisher Take-Two to stumble.
But there was also contradiction and criticism on the crucial report from Kotaku – we already reported about it. Now the established industry expert Jason Schreier is also in touch (via Bloomberg) to speak, as a result of the concern about the problems in the development of GTA 6 and a resulting release postponement exaggerated
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Jason Schreier says: Stay calm.
Schreier is considered to be extremely well connected in the gaming industry and therefore very trustworthy. Regarding the Kotaku report, the gaming insider has now, according to his own statement, asked Rockstar developers about the current status.
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According to them, Schreier claims to have learned that thousands of developers are currently working on GTA 6 and are busy, for example, with weather physics, actor performances and finding and fixing bugs. It is true when working on GTA 6 chaos
but that is anything but unusual – especially for a game of this magnitude.
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According to Schreier, there is at the moment no signs of it
that something would change in the original release plans of GTA 6: Rockstar is still targeting a 2025 release, but isn't ruling out a delay until 2026.
If the latter actually occurs, According to Schreier, that wouldn't be a reason for excitement. For example, he refers to the release of Red Dead Redemption 2, which was originally announced for 2017 and only came out in October 2018 after two release postponements.
Ultimately it can be summarized: It is entirely possible that GTA 6 will not be able to meet the release period officially communicated in the first trailer. However, that is no reason to worry about the quality of the final game. At least until now.