It’s been over a decade since Grand Theft Auto 5 was launched—however what’s going to the sequel carry?
The massively standard open-world motion franchise has offered over 430 million copies as of August 2024, placing it within the pantheon of the all-time best-selling recreation collection. And that success has ignited widespread pleasure over the following entry.
Now Grand Theft Auto 6 has been formally revealed, and there’s loads we already know from the primary trailer and announcement, together with subsequent reveals. Right here’s what it’s essential to learn about GTA 6.
What’s Grand Theft Auto 6?
Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA 6) is the official title for the sixth deliberate core installment of the Grand Theft Auto online game collection.
“Grand Theft Auto VI continues our efforts to push the boundaries of what’s potential in extremely immersive, story-driven open-world experiences,” mentioned Rockstar Video games founder Sam Houser in a assertion revealed December 4, 2023 alongside the primary official trailer for GTA 6. “We’re thrilled to have the ability to share this new imaginative and prescient with gamers in all places.”
The upcoming recreation’s predecessor, Grand Theft Auto 5, supplied gamers each single-player and multiplayer recreation modes, the place avid gamers may do issues like embark on cooperative heist missions, assassinate people, spend money on its artificial inventory market, purchase companies, rob residents, drive vehicles, and extra.
When is Grand Theft Auto 6 popping out?
Rockstar Video games lastly confirmed GTA 6’s improvement again in February 2022, and introduced in December 2023 that the sport received’t be launched till 2025. It is going to launch for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X and S—however no PC model has been confirmed. Earlier GTA entries have usually hit PC a lot later than consoles.
In an August 2023 interview with CNBC, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick mentioned that the studio expects “document ranges of working efficiency” in its fiscal 2025, which is between April 2024 and March 2025. That led some to imagine GTA 6 would launch within the early months of subsequent yr.
Nonetheless, in Could 2024, Zelnick introduced that the Grand Theft Auto 6 launch window has been narrowed all the way down to Fall 2025.
What was leaked about Grand Theft Auto 6?
In September 2022, a GTAForums consumer named “teapottuberhacker” posted roughly 90 items of leaked content material from Grand Theft Auto 6 to the discussion board. Whereas the content material has since been eliminated as a consequence of a copyright infringement declare, it contained quite a few leaks for the upcoming recreation that will have been swiped from bug reviews from high quality assurance (QA) testers, PC Gamer reported.
{The teenager} behind the hack, 18-year-old Arion Kurtaj of the cybercriminal group Lasus$, was convicted within the UK in August 2023 for hacking into Rockstar Video games and leaking the delicate info.
Final yr, PC Gamer reported that in one of many leaked movies, a playable Latina character named Lucia in addition to a white man named Jason, robbed a waffle restaurant and took hostages. The official GTA 6 trailer launched in December 2023 confirmed that Lucia’s character is certainly the sport’s protagonist, and that she does commit crimes and have some sort of romantic relationship with a white man (whose title has not but been formally confirmed).
There was additionally the presence of a Vice Metropolis Police Division (VCPD) car, a element that implies Grand Theft Auto 6 could also be set in Vice Metropolis, a Miami-esque metropolis that first appeared within the fourth recreation within the franchise, GTA: Vice Metropolis, which was revealed again in 2002. And since one character was seen with a smartphone, the leaks steered that Grand Theft Auto 6 can be set in a comparatively trendy time interval.
Based mostly on the primary official GTA 6 trailer, we even have affirmation that GTA 6 can be set in Vice Metropolis within the Leonida area—the sport’s model of Miami, Florida—in a contemporary time interval. Social media additionally seems to play an enormous position within the recreation, if the trailer’s inclusion of many livestreams and social media account posts are any indication.
Different potential leaks which have but to be confirmed embrace some wild potential experiences gamers may encounter, like a “satanist home,” “UFO Animal Home,” “Warehouse Intercourse Robots,” “Large Cat Mansion,” “Drug Lab,” and extra.
What’s new in Grand Theft Auto 6?
Bloomberg first reported in September 2022 that Grand Theft Auto 6 could have a feminine character as a playable protagonist—a primary for the franchise. That is Lucia, together with her male accomplice being the second playable protagonist.
The sport may even have an “evolving” world, that means that Rockstar might implement seasonal modifications or different continued updates to remodel the sport’s maps over time.
Rumors have been swirling for years that GTA 6 may supply gamers in-game crypto rewards, or in any other case characteristic cryptocurrency ultimately, however these rumors at present stay unsubstantiated.
In Could 2023, Recreation Rant speculated {that a} faux cryptocurrency might not really be deployed in GTA 6, however that the sequel might merely make crypto “the butt of many jokes.” Such an evaluation aligns with Bloomberg’s perspective that GTA 5 is “a satirical depiction of America” and affords “a nihilistic parody that threw insults at every part.”
Moreover, in July 2024, a viral tweet steered that using Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether’s USDT stablecoin have been “confirmed” for GTA 6, although that wasn’t true—Rockstar confirmed no such factor.
Contemplating that Rockstar Video games banned crypto and NFTs from its GTA 5 fan servers in November 2022, it’s unlikely that any actual cryptocurrency like Bitcoin would make its manner in Grand Theft Auto 6 by way of some sort of blockchain integration, not to mention as an artificial in-game forex.
That mentioned, Take-Two Interactive was engaged on NFT video games via Zynga, which it acquired in 2022. However Zynga’s crypto workforce spun out from the corporate in late 2024, taking the IP with it, so it seems that Take-Two is totally out of the blockchain area in the meanwhile.
In a totally completely different improvement, musician T-Ache mentioned in January (by way of IGN) that he is engaged on Grand Theft Auto 6 in some respect, presumably as a voice actor or maybe portraying himself inside the recreation’s larger-than-life world.
T-Ache mentioned on a livestream that Rockstar Video games requested him to cease enjoying on GTA5 role-playing servers within the meantime, allegedly for the reason that servers characterize an unofficial undertaking constructed on prime of GTA5.
As Grand Theft Auto 6 rumors proceed to unfold, followers should proceed to attend till Rockstar releases an announcement—or the sport.
In response to a fan asking GTA 5 voice actor Ned Luke—who performs “Michael” within the recreation—about GTA 6, Luke had a easy response: “Gonna be definitely worth the wait.”
Take-Two CEO Zelnick definitely has excessive hopes. The Monetary Instances reported in January 2025, citing knowledge from DFC Intelligence, that Grand Theft Auto 6 is predicted to promote 40 million copies and usher in $3.2 billion in income throughout its first yr of launch.
“I by no means declare victory earlier than it happens,” Zelnick advised the publication. “That mentioned, I believe Rockstar Video games will as soon as once more ship one thing completely phenomenal.”
Further reporting by Kate Irwin
Editor’s observe: This story was initially posted on August 28, 2023 and was final up to date with new info on January 2, 2025.
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