GTA 6 Boss Confidence in 2026 release date, says GTA online updates are like new games

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Following the delay and release of GTA 6 from Trailer 2, Rockstar Games Take-Two Interactive’s parent company gave new financial reports to shareholders, and the Director General participated in interviews to share his confidence on the date of edition.

Confidence at the top

We now know that Rockstar -games were penny on May 26, 2026 for the date of GTA VI edition, but how confident are they? Rockstar’s parent company, and its general manager, is. Speaking with IGN Strauss Zelnick, who manages Take-Two, told the exit that “when we set a specific date, generally speaking, we were very good about getting it.”

This was repeated in an interview with The game business: “When we set a specific date, it ends up being the date.” Of course, anything can happen between now and May 2026. Games are complex, but GTA you have been confirmed by Take-Two to be Rockstar’s most complex game ever.

GTA -Internet updates equivalent to new GTA gameplay?

Fans wondered why it took more than a decade to get a new GTA game. Some forgot Rockstar spent several years creating Red Dead Redemption 2 and dozens after dozens of GTA internet updates. While these earned a lot of money and entertaining people, it is still not the same as a whole new game.

Zelnick has an answer to those who think it took a long time. In an interview with The game businesshe said ”One could really argue that Rockstar has published a new Grand Theft Auto -Edition a few times a year. ”

This line could make some GTA fans not so happy. Certainly, GTA Online has introduced an incredible amount of content over the past decade and more, but it is not yet a whole new story -mode in the Grand Theft Auto series.

The big boss said ”The same thing applies to Red Dead Online, which has continued. And in the latest quarter, Grand Theft Auto Online and Red Dead Online exceeded expectations.“

True, though Red Dead Online children were left in the dust about substantial new content updates. So much so, groups of players started movements on social media to gain Rockstar’s attention. Fans of Red Dead do not give up after feeling how they were forgotten.

Rockstar did not know that GTA Online would be a nasty success when it was launched to important things in 2013. Zelnick states his strategy “Requires our teams to create more content quite right, to support that content and market that content. I would argue that Rockstar delivers its consumer base daily, and it does so some time ago, basically since 2014.“

Discussing the delay

We heard earlier this week that many game developers were hit by the delay. Some are satisfied with the delay to give them some space this year to release their game. Meanwhile, panic is the feeling among others. Zelnick told The game business “I love that this guess is happening. It’s flattinraG “As for the date of edition. Now that developers have a date to work, a sense of relief was felt. Although Zelnick ran”No one sent me flowers“As thank you.

Another question -fans have, what about 2025? They assumed they would get a completely new game in this calendar year. So what will fill that gap? Sure, more GTA -Internet updates will come, but it is unknown how much content GTA has intended to release in a few months. Maybe a new GTA IV port for current consoles? Looks like it could be a real option. The delay could also mean that Max Payne’s remakes are pushed into the following 2026. In all ways, 2026 will be huge for Fans of Rockstar Games.

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