The hype machine behind Grand Theft Auto 6’s release date may be running hotter than the mature content within the game series. And much of that hype involves when the game will be released.
Well, we may be getting closer to knowing that answer.
The CEO of Rockstar’s parent company, Strauss Zelnick, made an appearance on CNBC, hinting that GTA 6 could see gaming devices as early as 2024.
Zelnick said that Take-Two, the name of Rockstar’s parent company, has a “very robust pipeline of titles.” He expects those net bookings by 2025. In order to see revenue from new titles, it would take a year. And given that GTA6 is their biggest title by far, we’d surmise that’s what he’s talking about.
That math puts us at a release date in 2024.
If Zelnick believes that his company’s financials are going to boom in 2025, that can only be because GTA6 is dominating sales. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that much out. Given he’s speaking directly to investors one can surmise that his confidence level is ultra-high on the release date. You wouldn’t want to upset shareholders.
Zelnick’s interview lines up with a number of industry rumors.
There are also rumors that Take-Two has invested more than a billion dollars into GTA6. That’s an insane amount of money even for a video game, so we’d expect they want to begin recouping that cash rather swiftly.
However, Zelnick points out in the interview that the GTA franchise is, by and large, a cash cow. So yeah, investors, sleep well, GTA6 is likely to print cash.