May 26, 2026
GTA Online still brings a BILLION dollars every year.
The next GTA can’t be anything except 100% perfection and Rockstar isn’t in a hurry
If I have to sign into a rockstar account through a launcher to play it, I ain’t interested.
Rumors are that they want to charge $100 and they’re sitting back to see the financial climate with the price increases to see if consumers will bend over and take it without any pushback
Or…switch 2 version taking longer than Expected…
OR. they’re seeing the writing on the wall for the console industry and they’re going to release VI for all platforms (PC included) next year
switch 2 version assumption here? weird
$100 minimum.
My guess would be they’ll do some kind of tiered release strucructure, and/or have already finished or mostly finished 2 years+ worth of major updates, including new ‘chapters’ of the main single player story… and basically, you’ll have to subscribe.
Like … $160 for whole game, major expansion 1, 2 and 3, $120 for game + 1st expansion… Or your baseline $100, and then a subscription battlepass mmo monthly charge, or you can pay more for expansions in chunks, seperately.
Something like that.
I feel like you shouldn’t release a date if the game isn’t in ready for release. After releasing the date, all that should come is polish and minor bug fixing
So to all those other publishers who have already pushed their games release date out to avoid GTA6, you got a new date to avoid.
At least they know what this one is so they can plan better.
Man, development times are getting pretty crazy at this point. Hard to believe that we are starting to see decades between sequels to titles as a normal thing in the high end of the market.
It’s no wonder more games are aiming for games-as-a-service style models.
Well, given the implosion in the industry due to live service games, that’s not really a solution either. The actual solution is seemingly to just make smaller games, but they’re not really interested in that, so they’ll go out of business the first time they have a game that doesn’t hit.
[Sound of the whole gaming market start breathing again]
I guess this November is no longer a big red X on every publisher’s release calendar
Yep, just push that red X over to May next year
So now can we please get the other games that were supposed to launch in autumn?
Oh yeah. Everyone’s off to the races now.
This must mean that horizon is going to launch its next game in May 2026.
I tend to prefer bigger games delay purely so they don’t release as buggy messes (hello, Cyberpunk 2077).
Hoping they use that time to refine what they have and maybe even have it ported to PC for release.
I can’t see that being an issue with GTA. It’s far too big to fuck up like that, which is why there’s a delay.
Hang on, they just now announced it, it’s been delayed, and they still plan to launch it next year? This is gonna be a straight up shit show, folks.
Wait did they announce a release date or is it delayed? It can’t be both
It’s both
Original window was late 2025 now its may 26, 2026
Original window doesn’t sound like a release date
Probably a good thing…
But is it just me, or am I the only one who really couldn’t give two shits about GTA?
I get it’s a massive franchise, like Madden or Call of Duty… don’t buy those either.
Hah. I would not compare yearly money graps to GTA. Every 3d GTA has been setting the new standard for the genre.
I’ve always found the missions clunky, the worlds annoying, and the controls borderline unusable.
I enjoy it, I don‘t (allegedly) 100 bucks enjoy it though. I‘ll wait for a few years and grab it on sale. And ngl, I‘ve grown pretty tired of triple digit playtime games anyway.
You are not alone. There are so many quality open world action games out there that I never understood the hype around GTA.
You’re right! But the hype exists. It will reach peak for the four months post the launch, creating fomo. Peer pressure with such launches are a human problem
