DELAYED11 months late56% CONFIDENCEDate has moved, per en.wikipedia.org[1]: "…evealed in December 2023. Following two delays and further leaks, it is scheduled to be released on…"First promised for 12/31/2025; now 11 months later. Stated: the December 2023 trailer "revealed a 2025 release window"; delayed in May 2025 to 26 May 2026, then in November 2025 to 19 November 2026.
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Grand Theft Auto VI Release
Rockstar's return to Vice City, the most anticipated game release in years, after slipping from an earlier 2026 target. Announced date.
- Grand Theft Auto VI, developed and published by Rockstar Games, is due on 19 November 2026 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and Series S, with no Windows release scheduled as of September 2026[1][2][3]
- The date is the second delay: the first trailer in December 2023 gave a 2025 window, in May 2025 it moved to 26 May 2026, and on 6-7 November 2025 Rockstar pushed it to 19 November 2026[1][2][3]
- The delay was announced as part of Take-Two's second-quarter earnings, the publisher saying it was "giving the team some additional time to finish the game with the high level of polish players expect and deserve"[3]; CEO Strauss Zelnick added "We've had more time to develop the title... We are grateful that it is still within the same fiscal year"[3] and said he was "highly confident on the new date", though he had said the same earlier in the year[2]
- Reporting at the time held that the game is "content complete" with the remaining work being optimisation "to prevent a Cyberpunk scenario", and doubted insider claims of a slip to 2027[2]
- The sources agree the delay was not caused by the layoffs the week before: developers were told of it well before the union layoffs, and it was announced that day because Take-Two was reporting earnings[2]; Wikipedia likewise records that journalists noted the firings did not cause the delay[1]
- Those firings are described differently across the sources - Rockstar dismissed 34 employees in October 2025 over "public discussion and distribution of confidential information"[1], while IGN has Take-Two firing dozens the prior week alleging "gross misconduct"[3] - with the IWGB calling it union busting and a Rockstar North employee saying morale was "at rock bottom"[1][2][3]
- Preliminary work began in 2014, early development in late 2018 and principal production in 2020 under the code name Project Americas, with worldwide teams more than doubled since Red Dead Redemption 2; the budget is rumoured at US$1-2 billion "though the figure remains unverified"[1]
- It is priced at $79.99, with preorders opened on 25 June 2026 that Take-Two called "unprecedented and astonishing" without giving figures; Newzoo estimated a record US$260 million in seven days and 37-51 million copies in the first week, and DFC Intelligence projected $3.2 billion in first-year earnings[1]
- Physical copies contain download codes rather than discs, "to prevent leaks and reselling", reaching stores on 12 November for pre-loading a week ahead of unlock; players and journalists criticised the edition-locked content and missing discs, and some retailers refused to stock the game[1]
- Marketing records: the first trailer of 5 December 2023 leaked a day early and broke YouTube records, and the second trailer of 6 May 2025 took "a record 475 million views across all platforms within 24 hours" before being surpassed in March 2026 by Spider-Man: Brand New Day[1]
- A Netflix "extended look" premiered on 27 August 2026, and Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album, 34 original songs, was announced on 17 September 2026[1]
- Two major leaks bracket the project: the September 2022 "teapotuberhacker" breach of 90 videos that Rockstar told a court cost $5 million, and the August 2026 "CyberLeek" leak of the map and footage that drew Take-Two subpoena requests to Discord, Microsoft and X Corp.[1]
- The game won Most Wanted / Most Anticipated Game at both the Golden Joystick Awards and The Game Awards in 2024 and 2025, plus Best Game Trailer in 2025[1]
- For scale, Grand Theft Auto V has sold over 220 million units, and Take-Two's net bookings were $1.96 billion in the quarter the delay was announced[3]
Notable features
- The game is the eighth main Grand Theft Auto entry and the sixteenth overall, the first since the 1997 original not written by Dan Houser, built on the RAGE engine as a single-player action-adventure[1]
- It is set in the fictional state of Leonida, based on Florida, taking in Vice City, Grassrivers and the Leonida Keys, with a map "reported to be three times larger than the playable area of Red Dead Redemption 2"[1]
- Players switch between Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos in what narrative senior VP Rupert Humphries called "a Bonnie and Clyde-type narrative"; Lucia is the series' first non-optional female protagonist[1]
- Rockstar confirmed in August 2026 that the game runs at 30 frames per second on both consoles at launch[1]
- Rockstar has confirmed there will be no microtransactions at launch and no generative AI in the game[1]
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- [1]40%en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_VIen.wikipedia.org· Posted Sep 11, 2026· Starts Nov 19, 2026 ✓· 62% of score
Date has moved, per en.wikipedia.org: "…evealed in December 2023. Following two delays and further leaks, it is scheduled to be released on…"
- [2]80%Grand Theft Auto 6 Delay Is Reportedly All About Polishingthegamer.com· Published Nov 7, 2025· 19% of score
TheGamer reports Rockstar postponed GTA VI specifically to "November 19, 2026," matching the pin's stored date exactly and explaining the delay as polish-driven rather than layoff-driven.
- [3]85%GTA 6 Is Delayed Again Until November 2026ign.com· Published Nov 6, 2025· 19% of score
IGN's own title, "GTA 6 Is Delayed Again Until November 2026," published November 6, 2025, is the widely-cited source for the pin's stored November 2026 date, though the page itself could not be fetched to confirm exact wording.
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