GTA 6 could be released. Now another alleged leak has surfaced, claiming to shed new light on Rockstar's timeline for GTA 5's sequel.
Since there hasn't been any official word about the title, fans have had to rely on unconfirmed information, vague facts, and Rockstar's past releases to estimate when GTA 6 could see the light of day. Its speculative release date window has landed somewhere between 2025 and 2028, but even this wide range could be subject to change. Rockstar has never been a company to rush a release, and the continued success of GTA Online gives it more wiggle room to push it back as it perfects it for launch. However, an alleged Rockstar insider claims that GTA 6 will be announced soon.
This information was posted on the anonymous message board 4chan on March 29, spreading to other social channels like Imgur and Reddit. The poster claims to have worked with Rockstar in a "coordinating capacity" and alleges that the GTA 6 has been in the works longer than previous reports have claimed to reveal. These claims come with no concrete evidence to back them up, so gamers should take them with a heavy dose of skepticism. Still, here's how the latest GTA 6 information dump compares to the previous reports about the game.
GTA 6 Release Date: What Does The New Leak Say?
The 4chan post doesn't offer an exact date when Rockstar could announce GTA 6, but it states that "the news wire art is already finished and ready." This suggests that the company is currently preparing an announcement for the title potentially as early as this year. Press release information and assets would be one of the last things to be drafted after a reveal trailer is completed. Still, even if Rockstar chooses to announce GTA 6 doesn't mean it will be ready any time soon. Bethesda revealed it was working on The Elder Scrolls 6 in 2018, but that release isn't expected until 2025 at the earliest.
The post goes on to say that work for GTA 6 began as far back as a decade ago and that "the work has never stopped on GTA. Not even when RDR2 crunch was wild." The best estimates of when Rockstar could have begun working on GTA 6 come from games journalist Jason Schreier who stated it's "still a ways away," suggesting it was still in the early stages of development. The earliest mention of GTA 6's development came from an IGN story published in 2016, which stated work on the title started that year. That could mean Rockstar could soon have something to reveal soon and goes along with a popular theory about how the company could change its GTA release strategy.
The alleged leak claims that Rockstar will continue to the current version of GTA Online and add GTA 6 to it like a next-gen expansion. That coincides with Schreier's report that revealed the company was contemplating releasing future games in piecemeal fashion, like how Blizzard releases biennial World of Warcraft expansions, to make smaller deadlines more manageable for developers. All of this remains up in the air, as this most recent isn't verifiable in any way. Still, it is possible that Grand Theft Auto 6 might be farther along than gamers once thought it was.
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