

According to Schreier, the Latina player character is one half of a Bonnie-and-Clyde-style crime duo.
NEW GRAND THEFT AUTO 6 SERIES
As reported by Bloomberg's Jason Schreier (opens in new tab), GTA 6 will supposedly feature a playable female protagonist for the first time in series history. Some rumors emerge from the mill with a bit more credibility. (Image credit: Rockstar) GTA 6 probably has a female protagonist That sounds absurdly ambitious, but Rockstar might well have the resources to do it. This could easily have been a technical test, or perhaps a scene from some scrapped singleplayer DLC, but Rockstar once talked about putting all of their cities into one mega-game. Speaking of old GTA cities, a few years ago a Liberty City scene appeared on a Rockstar dev's profile, apparently mocked up in GTA 5's engine.

The map and story get worked up together, and the story is a basic flow of how it works out so you can layer the mission in." That then defines the missions you’re doing different things in LA than in New York or Miami. Where it is going to be set is the first question. We’ve got about 45 years’ worth of ideas we want to do. “We don’t know what GTA 6 will be, but we’ve got some ideas. In an interview with Develop in 2013, president of Rockstar North Leslie Benzies referred to Rockstar's trifecta of preferred GTA cities The Miami prediction has been echoed by other sources, as reported by Bloomberg's Jason Schreier. These same predictions also said that GTA 6's map will evolve or expand over time, possibly through DLC or live game updates. These claims said that GTA 6 will take place in a modern day version of the series analog for Miami. Rumors from July 2021 also pointed to GTA 6 returning to Vice City.
NEW GRAND THEFT AUTO 6 FULL
That was followed up by a quote from research analyst Doug Creutz of Cowen, who thinks this points to "a likely GTA 6 launch in FY24." If true, that could put the Grand Theft Auto 6 release date anywhere between the beginning of April 2023 and the end of March 2024.īack in July 2021, Tom Henderson, a Call of Duty leaker, posted a YouTube video predicating that GTA 6 would be coming out in 2024 or 2025, and this was corroborated by reporter, Jason Schreier, who stated on Twitter that "Everything Tom Henderson has said about the game matches up with what I've heard." You view the full video below. Inside this was the note, "Looking ahead, the combined company is expected to deliver a 14% compound annual growth rate… over the three-year period from Take-Two's Fiscal Years 2021 through 2024."Īccording to an analyst from investment banking firm Jefferies, quoted by Stephen Totilo of Axios (opens in new tab), "there are only a handful of titles that can.provide management with the confidence to put out such a strong guidance we believe there is at least one Rockstar IP set to be released by FY24". When Take-Two Interactive announced the deal to purchase mobile game company Zynga, it came via a press release that also included a section called "Strategic Rationale and Stockholder Value Creation". We're certainly a long way off guessing exact dates at this stage, but we might be able to start trying to pinpoint a year, at least. (Image credit: Rockstar Games) GTA 6 release date: when could it be?

No matter how likely they do seem, all the other features we can glean from the footage-Lucia committing a robbery at a waffle joint, dialogue options for playable characters, a character seen moving and crawling while prone, the messaging system called "WhatUp!"-should be taken as subject to change until Rockstar chooses to make its public reveal for GTA 6.

Modern day setting: We've spotted at least one pedestrian with a smart phone, which seems to discount smaller rumors about a possible '80s setting.Vice City: Part of the footage includes a modern rail car labeled "Vice City Metro," making the rumors of a return to fictional Florida seem likely too.Two playable characters: Referred to as Lucia and Jason, they are likely the "Bonnie & Clyde inspired" crime duo referenced in past rumors.Here are the few high points that we might be able to expect in the launch version of GTA 6: That likely just doesn't exist yet, given how iterative a process game development is. It's all likely older footage and is absolutely internal development stuff, not some sneaky peak at a final, polished product. Based on what we've seen, yup, this sure is a GTA game in the works. The big dump of leaked footage may still be floating around, but unless you're extremely interested in picking apart debug footage you aren't missing much. While we wait for an official, larger announcement to tell us more about the next GTA 6 game, here are all the rumors that have been circulating in the years leading up to it.
