The looming launch of Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto 6 is reportedly inflicting unease amongst some competing publishers.
The subsequent entry within the open-world crime franchise, which has offered over 435 million lifetime models, is among the business’s most anticipated releases of all-time.
It’s the sequel to 2013’s Grand Theft Auto 5, which reached $1 billion in retail gross sales quicker than different leisure launch in historical past and has offered over 205 million models, in keeping with Rockstar proprietor Take-Two.
The firm mentioned final month that the sport is on observe to hit its beforehand introduced fall 2025 launch window. And in keeping with Bloomberg’s sources, rival recreation publishers are ready so long as doable to decide to their launch dates for subsequent fall.
They wish to see if GTA 6 will make its deadline or be delayed till 2026, with the aim being to place vital distance between the discharge of their very own video games and Rockstar’s, it’s claimed.
Take-Two has itself mentioned it’s planning to keep away from clashes for its greatest titles, which additionally embody subsequent 12 months’s Borderlands 4.
“I feel it’s secure to say that we wouldn’t, and nobody would, stack up large releases unnecessarily,” CEO Strauss Zelnick informed Variety final month.
Take-Two confirmed at present that the primary Borderlands 4 gameplay will probably be revealed at The Game Awards on December 12.
