Even after years of development, fans of the blockbuster Grand Theft Auto<\/em> franchise will need to wait a little longer for the series’ much-anticipated follow-up to GTA 5<\/em>, at least according to a recent interview with Take-Two chief executive Strauss Zelnick.<\/p>
Zelnick was asked point blank about GTA 6\u2019s <\/em>ship date in an interview on CNBC\u2019s Squark on the Street show on Aug. 9<\/a>. While as evasive as one would expect by reiterating his desire to leave announcements of that nature to Rockstar themselves, he did allude to 2025 being an unusually good fiscal year for them, setting an estimate of eight billion dollars in total revenue.<\/p>
He stated Take-Two has a \u201cgreat outlook for fiscal [year] 2025\u201d and called it a \u201cpretty exciting time,\u201d but shied away from dropping any specific names. A May 22 interview<\/a> on the same show saw Zelnick similarly duck the question, only confirming that Rockstar was \u201cworking on the next iteration of Grand Theft Auto<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>
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However, speculation like this has been circulating since GTA V<\/em> first came out in 2013, and given Zelnick\u2019s love for implementing new monetization schemes such as GTA Online<\/em><\/a>, it seems possible that he could also be expecting them to make up some of that colossal sum. <\/p>
The introduction of the GTA+<\/em> subscription service in March 2022<\/a> proved that Take-Two hasn\u2019t exhausted every means of getting money from their players yet. 2025, though, sounds just reasonable enough as a GTA 6<\/em> release date for me to keep my fingers crossed\u2014for the first time in a while, there\u2019s a glimmer of hope at the end of what has been a very long tunnel.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
