GTA 6 release date will be after March 2025

Rockstar Games gave GTA 6 a vague 2025 release window, during its initial reveal trailer in December, but any hope that could mean early in the year appear to have been dashed.

While it was originally speculated to be coming out in the first quarter of 2025, publisher Take-Two, who owns Rockstar, has revised its revenue forecast downwards for its next fiscal year (from April to March 2025).

After it previously expected revenue of over $8 billion for the 2025 fiscal year, this number has since been reduced to $7 billion – suggesting GTA 6 has been pushed back to the 2026 fiscal year, which begins in April 2025 and ends in March 2026.

Take-Two addressed this reduction during a Q&A with analysts, where chief financial officer Lainie Goldstein acknowledged there had been a change in the release schedule.

‘For fiscal year ’25, as I mentioned, it’s really driven by changes in the release schedule,’ Goldstein said. ‘And obviously, that will move some of the titles out into years going forward because the lifetime value of our portfolio hasn’t changed. We do expect to see growth in the fiscal year ’26 over ’25, so that hasn’t changed.’

In the report, Take-Two also listed GTA 6 as coming out in ‘calendar 2025′ and not fiscal – so it certainly seems like it has been pushed back to later in the year.

It would follow Rockstar’s recent history with release dates, with GTA 5 originally coming out in September 2013, while Red Dead Redemption 2 released in October 2018. A cleaner at Rockstar even recently claimed GTA 6 would come out in September 2025, which by accident or otherwise might be bang on the money.

Elsewhere in its financial results, Take-Two stated 195 million copies of GTA 5 have been sold so far, with it expected to pass 200 million before the end of the summer. Red Dead Redemption 2, meanwhile, has sold 61 million copies, which seems small in comparison, but is still far more than most other video games.