I do love the fact that Rockstar has gone with the classic Twitte▨r notes app apology, but hey at least we actually have a rele🎶ase date now!

First, let's unpack what the actual 𒀰statem꧃ent says.

Obviously it starts with the apology that the new May 26, 2026 is "later than🎉 expe✤cted" and thanks the players for their "support and... patience".

"With every game we have released, the goal has always been to try and exceed your expectations, and Grand Theft Auto 6 is no exception. We hope you understand that we need this extra time to deliver at the level o꧋f quality you expect and deserve."

Of course, we already knew that GTA 6 was going to be pushing Rockstar's already high ꦍenvelope of creativity and accomplishments.

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The GTA 6 devs themselves teased baꦍck ౠin November that they're workin🌠g on "absolutely mind-blowing things" and promise "more to come".

I am particularly excited that the statement ends with the tease that Rockstar "look forward to sharing mor📖e information with you soon".

Traditionally Rockstar does its own thing when it comes t🅰o reveals and trailer drops, but with Summer Game Fest 2025 just around the corner in early June, could it be that we something fresh of GTA 6 then?

We've not h♌ad anything since that first trailer drop back in December 2023.

As a reminder🍰, here it is, because it is a Very Good TrailerTM.

Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 - YouTube

Jason Schreier has already come out swinging, as you'd expect. , the Bloomberg reporter says "nobody I've talked to at Rockstar has believe Fall 2025 was a real window for a very long time".

"Too much work, not enough time, and what appear🍨s to be a real desire from management to avoi꧋d brutal crunch."

"GTA 6 slipping to 2026 has seemed inevitable for mon𝔉ths if not longer."

Chat about the GTA 6 release date had been spinning this week anyway off the back of the Borderlands 4 relܫease date moving 11 dไays earlier than the originally announced date.

However, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford quickly jumped on Twitter/X to clarify that the dat⭕e move was actually nothing to do w♓ith GTA 6 or any other product.

At the time, everyone was like 'yeah, yeah, yeah Randy, sure' but turns out it has moved forward because 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Borderlands 4 is just that ready?

It's interesting that it was only in February this year that Takꦯe-𝓀Two boss said he was confident in a 2025 launch.

"Look, there's always a risk of slippage and I think as soon as you say words like absolutꦯely, you jinx things," CEO Strauss Zelnick told .

Turns out he did jinx it didn't he.

It's been an complicated time of late in the games industry - and that's real𒆙ly undersellingꦑ it. Between mass layoffs, game cancellations, studio closures and Trump's tariffs, there's a lot going on and not a lot of it good.

Analysts are calling it "unprecedented territory", but the hope was that big releases like 𓆉Switch 2 and GTA 6 would be a boost for the industry.

"I thꦰink folks want to be optimistic about things like Switch 2 and GTA 6 coming into the market," veteran games analyst Mat Piscatella told GamesRadar+ just this week, "but this looming cloud of tariffs and the impact and what's happening on the trade side of things, and how that might impact products like accessories and hardware and that type of thing, it's just, no matter what industry you're looking at, you're looking at this stuff going, okay, what happens next?"

"People are just kind of waiting and seeing what's happening and trying to plan accordingly," he added, "but hopeful that, with Switch 2, with GTA 6, when it comes tꩲo the tariffs, the increased presence of digital – which wouldn't be subject to those tariffs, at✅ least not at this stage – lessens those kinds of burns a little bit."

Perhaps actually🍨 dating the GTA 6 2026 for May 26 is an attempt to help bridge the gap left by the gam🃏e in this calendar year?

The removal of GTA 6 from this financial year may well change the ꧒plans for other publishers and game developers.

Multiple developers spoke to, calling GTA 6 a "huge meteor" with publishers looking to "stay clear of the blas༒t zone. Blizzard's former president, Mike Ybarra, said that "everyone will move their release out of the way" when Rockstar eventually confirms GTA 6's release date.

With everyone allegedly cooking up pl♏ans to move out of the way of GTA 6, that original 'fall 2025' releܫase window suddenly looks a lot more wide open.

As a side note, while the Rockstar statement says that the developer is excited to share more with us soon, earlier this year Take-Two did say it wouldn't start marketing G𒐪TA 6 until it's closer to release.

It was our pal Zelnick again, this time speaking to Bloomberg, and outlined that although its rvials might mark❀et their games for years before release, they've seen it better to hold off until closer to launch.

"We've found that 🎃the better thing to do 🐟is to provide marketing materials relatively close to the release window in order to create that excitement on the one hand, and balance the excitement with the anticipation. We don't always get it exactly right, but that's what we’re trying to do."

That may mean we don't get anything else on GTA 6 this year and Rockstar is being very loose with the word "soon" in toda💖y's stateme🅰nt.

Or maybe the play is not to release a new trailer at all? That'd certainly suit 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Ex-Rockstar technical director Obbe Verme♛ij, who says "the element of surprise is going to make ✱the release only bi✃gger as an event."

Given that we've got a year to wait for GTA 6 now, you'd certainly think Rockstar would show us something? I love me some single-player goodness, but I'm certainly kꦗeen to find out what's going on with whatever GTA 6's answer to GTA Onlin🔯e is going to be.

If you're curious about whatever is going on with GTA Online, Take-Two boss Stra🦩uss Zelnick poked at ▨the topic delicately earlier this year. Asked why a GTA Online fan should continue to invest time and money in something that might be replaced s🌸oon, Zelnick teased that the publisher has "shown a willingness to support legacy tit﷽les when a community wants to be engaged with them."

That's not to 𝓡say GTA Online 2 has been confirmed or anything, as Zelnick didn't want to be drawn into specifics over unannounced plans, but it does speak to the situation not being as certain as you might think.

Speaking of Zelnick, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Take-Two has now issued a statement🐓 of its own regarding the GTA 6 delay news. 💧Here it is in full:

“We support fully Rockstar Games taking additional time to realize their creative vision for GTA 6, which promises to be a groundbreaking, blockbuster entertainment experience that exceeds audience expectations,” Zelnick says. “Whil♔e we꧋ take the movement of our titles seriously and appreciate the vast and deep global anticipation for GTA 6, we remain steadfast in our commitment to excellence.

"As we continue to release our phenomenal🔜 pipeline, we expect to deliver a multi-year period o♎f growth in our business and enhanced value for our shareholders.”

It's worth noting that Take-Two plans to hold a conference call to discuss its latest financial results on May 1💝5, so expect some more reaction then as you'd imagine plenty of investors will have questions.

Some people are certainly taking the news of the delay in their stride. Cult of the Lamb publisher Devolver Dig▨ital is doublin♔g down on plaꦛns to launch a game on GTA 6's release date, even if that is now 12 month🐲s from now.

"You can't escape us." Ominous!

Some expert analyst views coming in now. Speaking to GamesRadar+, Circana games industry analyst Mat Piscatella says 澳洲幸运5𓆏开奖号码历史查询:the GTA 6 delay is bad news for the ind🎉ustry, at least this year.

"GTA 6 is a game that would bring relapsed players back to the consoles in particular, and would have been a driver of incremental hardware sales," Piscatella says. "It would have also, if successful, brought potential growth months to the industry (again, particularly on the console side) and may have even worked to reinvigorate inveꩲstor interest in the segment.

"I don't think anyone benefits in 2025 from this push," he continues. "It wasn't looming over the holiday season, it was going to be a big driver of what success potential the𒉰 holiday season had."

No one tell that to Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 actoꦑr Luke Dale, though, who "we're in with a shot! GOTY" in response to the news. He's not wrong, to be fair.

Some more details from Schreier, who talks about the current work conditions at Rockstar. While the developer years ago ﷽due to the amount of crunch needed to get the likes of Red Dead Redemption 2 out the door, the picture has improved since, as developers work to get GTA 6 out the door.

"Skepticism is always healthy, but I've been keeping tabs on this for years (since my big 2018 story about Red Dead 2's crunch)," he to a BlueSky user who doubts Rockstar is avoiding crunch here. "They certainly haven't eliminated *all* overtime b🧜ut everyone I've talked to at Rockstar says it's night and day from previous projects. If that🎐 changes, I'll report on it."

If you're looking for more analyst reaction, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:we've spoken to three of the best who tell us just what this means for the industry. If there's one thing that seems certain, "2025 will clearly be the year ꦗof Nintendo now."

"Now Nintendo has half a year to prepare and market a potentially big holiday line-up, Sony can release Ghost of Yotei in peace, and Microsoft has more room to possibly release its Xbox handheld," Dr. Serkan Toto, CEO of Japan game industry consultancy Kantan Games, tells GamesRadar+. "However, the double whammy that was supposed to revitalize the game industry overall is now called off✅."

While the GTA 6 delay is certainly a "bummer," former Rockstar technical director Obbe Vermeij has a parti🐷cularly glass-half-full outlook on the whole thing: "The good news is t🍌hat they are clearly confident they are going to ܫmake May," he says. "Otherwise they wouldn't have given a date."

I certa🥂inly want to believe. But I've been burned before!

It's not all doom and gloom, however! There's a certain subset of folks that are taking the W where they can get it: 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Hollow Knight: Silksong fans. That includes our♏ very own staff writꦐer Dustin Bailey.

"The reaction I had could only be described as a live-action version of 'lol, lmao,'" writes Bailey, "and I was so🌳on struck by the real﷽ization that, yeah, we're really getting Hollow Knight: Silksong before GTA 6."

With Silksong officially confirmed to launch in 2025, and GTA 6 delayed into 2026, the only way this doesn't happen is if Silksong gets delayed even further. But that wouldn't hap🐼pen... right?

When GTA 6🦂 was set to release in 2025, there was also an amount of ce🐲rtainty that no matter just how good any other video game released this year was, there was no way it was beating out Rockstar for GOTY awards. Now, whether that's true, who could possibly say, but now it's an impossibility – and one that some folks are pretty excited about.

Take, for example, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's Hans Capon actor Luke Dale. Dale shared the social media annou🔯ncement of the GTA 6 delay with the cap♋tion, "WE'RE IN WITH A SHOT! GOTY!" You know what? Good for them🎃, genuinely.