‘Nobody I’ve Talked to At Rockstar Has Believed Fall 2025 Was a Real Window for a Very Long Time Now’ GTA 6 Devs Not Surprised by Delay

Summary

Grand Theft Auto 6 devs reportedly expected a delay to 2026, as the original Fall 2025 launch wasn’t realistic.
Employees at Rockstar foresaw the delay as inevitable due to too much work and time constraints.
Details about GTA 6 largely remain secret, but the game is likely to cost $80 upon release following industry price hikes.

Grand Theft Auto 6 has recently been delayed, and new reports indicate that the developers at Rockstar Games were already aware that a Fall 2025 launch was not a realistic expectation. Despite Rockstar indicating otherwise until recently, there was much speculation that Grand Theft Auto 6 would not release in 2025, and the recent confirmation of a delay did not come as a surprise to some people.

GTA 6 was originally announced in December 2023 with a trailer, and Rockstar promised that the game would arrive sometime in 2025. However, after months of silence, Rockstar confirmed that Grand Theft Auto 6 would be delayed, and that the eagerly awaited open-world game would only be out on May 26, 2026.

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Soon after the official announcement, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier reported that “Nobody I’ve talked to at Rockstar has believed Fall 2025 was a real window for a very long time now.” According to the journalist, the delay was seen as inevitable inside Rockstar for months, as there was “too much work, not enough time,” and the upper management wanted to avoid crunch. Despite Rockstar maintaining the official Fall 2025 launch plans until now, Schreier previously reported last year on how unlikely a GTA 6 release this year was, indicating that he would be “shocked” if the game launched in 2025.

Rockstar Employees Believed GTA 6 Would Be Delayed

Nobody I’ve talked to at Rockstar has believed Fall 2025 was a real window for a very long time now. Too much work, not enough time, and what appears to be a real desire from management to avoid brutal crunch. GTA VI slipping to 2026 has seemed inevitable for months if not longer
— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier.bsky.social) 2025-05-02T11:40:06.661Z

Nobody I’ve talked to at Rockstar has believed Fall 2025 was a real window for a very long time now.

Unfortunately, not much is known about GTA 6 right now. It has been previously confirmed that the game will be available on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, but not PC at launch, and that it will be set in Vice City, with Lucia and Jason as its protagonists. Vice City looked great in the trailer, but it’s still unknown how big it’ll be or what kinds of activities gamers will be able to perform there. Also, the trailer only hinted at some story beats, such as Lucia being released from jail, so most of the details about the plot are still a secret at the time of this report.

With GTA 6 releasing in 2026, the chances of the game costing $80 have already increased. After Nintendo recently hiked the price of its first-party games, Xbox announced price increases for its games and consoles, with upcoming titles made by the publisher set to cost $80, too. With this move, it’s expected that Grand Theft Auto 6 will likely cost at least $80, something that a few insiders were already expecting before the recent price increases and the game’s delay.