When will Grand Theft Auto VI (6) be released?
The release date for GTA 6 (Grand Theft Auto VI) is currently unknown.
The timeline so far (scroll to bottom for latest news):
Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA 6) was officially mentioned by Rockstar Games in February 2022 [1][2].
According to insider Tom Henderson, it is expected that the game will be officially announced by Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive in 2023 [1][2].
The Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA 6) leaks happened in September 2022 [1].
The leak was discovered when a hacker breached Rockstar Games’s Slack server and Confluence cloud storage [2]. The leak included 90 videos of GTA 6 gameplay footage, source code, and other assets related to the game.
Map of GTA 6 built off of the leaked videos:
This is the only real map we have. Do not believe any maps claiming to be GTA 6 as they are completely false. RIP to the creator of this map for getting banned on Reddit.
Another map based off of the leaked videos, but this one might have more unconfirmed things in it. Map made by MyNeuronsAreFried on Reddit.
On May 21, 2023 Take-Two's 65 year old CEO, Strauss Zelnick, said this on a podcast:
I think that’s a challenge that the folks at Rockstar face every
time there’s a new iteration of Grand Theft Auto. It needs to be
something you’ve never seen before on one hand, and it needs to reflect
the feeling that we have about Grand Theft Auto, and that’s a big
challenge for the team.
Now, Rockstar’s answer is just seek perfection, seek nothing short of perfection and we’ll get there.
Maybe not seeking perfection, its like, "Lets create something that no-one would of thought of, but when they see it, it fits."
UPDATE November 7, 2023 Bloomberg made a post claiming that GTA 6 would be announced in the following week, and the trailer would be released early December.
The next day (November 8, 2023) Rockstar Games officially announced (X and Newswire) that a trailer for the next Grand Theft Auto will be released in December, meaning Bloomberg's claims were in fact true.
The GTA 6 release date is confirmed to be between April 1, 2024 and March 31, 2025, but no specific date is yet mentioned.
Confirmed FACTS about GTA 6:
- The main characters are named Jason and Lucia.
- The voice actor for Lucia is Alexandra C. Echavarri Lecroz.
- The voice actor for Jason is Bryan Zampella.
- GTA 6 takes place in Vice City.
- There is a high chance that horses will be in the game. (based off leaks)
UPDATE from (October 20th ish). Someone posted on Reddit claiming their wife works in a position where she was able to see the trailer for GTA 6 early. Here are the details she described that will be in the trailer:
The Reddit post has been long deleted as well as the OP's account, but what makes this most believable is that the GTA 6 trailer was officially announced AFTER this post was made. The amount of details also makes this quite believable.
[November 18, 2023] It would appear another voice actor for GTA 6 has been shown from their resume using codename "FIREBALL". Reggie Talley. This of course isn't confirmed but could very well be the case.
UPDATE December 1, 2023 Rockstar Games made a post on Twitter/X and Instagram with a picture officially announcing that the trailer will be released on Tuesday, December 5, 2023 at 9 EST.
The Rockstar Games website also says it will be "TRAILER 1" which also confirms there will be multiple trailers for the game, just like GTA 5.
For any reason you need the official pictures/background from this image here they are. Taken from Rockstar Games website:
UPDATE December 3, 2023. Yet another leaked video of GTA 6 has been thrown in the wild on TikTok. The video shows more parts of what the city looks like.
Here is pretty much all of the information summed up in one picture:
UPDATE December 4, 2023. Rockstar Games released the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI early due to the trailer being leaked by an account that was quickly suspended.
Rockstar Games posted a tweet very soon after the leak saying: "Our trailer has leaked so please watch the real thing on YouTube:", followed by a link to the trailer.
The trailer shows several changes that are different from the leaked videos.
The devices you can play GTA 6 on have also been confirmed. It says "Rockstar Games®, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), is proud to announce that Grand Theft Auto VI is coming to PlayStation® 5 computer entertainment systems and Xbox Series X|S games and entertainment systems in 2025."