The development of GTA 6 is in a delicate situation. Rockstar didn’t stick around to see them coming and made a massive appeal to all employees go back to the officea step that would theoretically be essential to meet the planned launch date, which is set for 2025, but even with this change in strategy, it cannot be ruled out that delays will eventually occur.

Kotaku assures that it is aware that the launch of GTA 6 is likely ending with a delay until 2026, which would mean a delay of approximately one year compared to the originally planned date. This would be bad news for PS5 and Xbox Series X-Series S users and also for PC gamers because the compatible version It will arrive after the console version.

If confirmed, PC users may have to wait by the end of 2026 or even the beginning of 2027 so that we can play GTA 6, a game that has become one of the most anticipated at the moment and, after the official presentation of its first trailer, managed to scare all the ghosts that swarmed around it as a result of the previous massive leak.

There is also the possibility that the delay is less significant and that the launch of GTA 6 will eventually take place at the end of 2025. Nothing is definitive, so for now we can only wait. All in all, I’d rather have delays and a late launch than quality or optimization issues.

It’s also crucial for Rockstar, because ultimately GTA 6 will become your big bet for generating income over the next ten years, as it happened at the time with GTA V. The developer is aware of the weight this delivery will have on its future as a company and does not know that it cannot afford to make mistakes.

As for the “crisis” that occurs in the final stages of triple-A game development, which means a significant workload for developers, everything seems to indicate that GTA 6 will be no exception, and that everyone involved in the project will have to face a rather complicated final stretch.