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GTA 6 is scheduled to release sometime in 2025, and the sequel’s publisher said during a financial results call that it is aiming for perfection before the long-awaited open-world game finally launches.
“We strive for perfection, and when we feel like we’ve optimized creatively, that’s the time to launch,” Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Rockstar parent company Take-Two, told an investor who asked how the publisher decides when to launch a game like GTA 6. Zelnick went on to assure investors that “we’re all in this together” and that both developers and executives have financial incentives to ensure development doesn’t drag on forever.
“There’s an inherent tension, potentially, between bringing something to market and creating perfection,” Zelnick said, “but this company errs on the side of perfection.”
In response to another investor, Zelnick said that, compared to GTA 5, “our feeling is that the anticipation (for GTA 6) is much higher, much, much higher. On the other hand, you know, 195 million units (of “GTA 5 sold) to date is nothing to sneeze at. We don’t go so far as to make predictions about how the title will perform, but clearly the anticipation is very, very high.”
By the time GTA 6 launches in 2025, there will have been a 12-year gap between it and GTA 5, by far the longest stretch between the series’ main entries. It’s no wonder the sequel is so eagerly awaited. As Take-Two points out in its financial reportThe first trailer for GTA 6 reached 93 million views in 24 hours – the biggest launch of anything outside of music videos in YouTube history.
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