Take-Two Interactive, the holding firm that owns Rockstar Video games, has set a Fall 2025 launch date for Grand Theft Auto VI.
Hypothesis in regards to the upcoming launch of the favored online game was excessive forward of Take-Two releasing its fourth quarter earnings on Thursday. The corporate earlier set a 2025 launch for Grand Theft Auto VI, and with the replace has narrowed the discharge date to autumn subsequent yr.
“We’re extremely assured that Rockstar Video games will ship an unparalleled leisure expertise, and our expectations for the business impression of the title proceed to extend,” Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick instructed analysts in ready remarks after unveiling his firm’s newest earnings.
The final entry within the franchise was Grand Theft Auto V, which was initially launched in 2013. The web element to the sport has had a number of updates by the years. As every replace dropped, followers embraced the most recent model of the sport.
The newest updates to Grand Theft Auto On-line included new automobiles, drag races, and holiday-themed gadgets to mark Valentine’s Day and the Lunar New Yr vacation in China, Zelnick instructed the after-market analyst name.
Grand Theft Auto V has been a smash hit and develop into the second-best-selling online game of all time and the top-selling sport of the final decade by complete greenback gross sales. The franchise has additionally discovered itself within the crosshairs of controversy quite a lot of occasions for its brutal violence and themes.
Thus far, Grand Theft Auto V has bought round 200 million online game items worldwide. “We’re thrilled that greater than a decade after their preliminary releases, Grand Theft Audio V and Grand Theft Auto On-line grew their viewers dimension by an unimaginable 35 p.c and 23 p.c, respectively, for the total yr,” Zelnick reported.
Take-Two CFO Lainie Goldstein added in her personal feedback to analysts that “confidence within the (Grand Theft Auto VI) title and its potential business impression proceed to develop,” with out providing particular steering on potential gross sales of the favored online game from Fall 2025.
Zelnick additionally mentioned his online game writer unveiling a take care of Embracer Group to amass The Gearbox Leisure Co., the maker of the Borderlands franchise, for $460 million in inventory. “When the chance offered itself for us to amass the corporate on phrases that we felt have been affordable, we frankly jumped on the alternative… And naturally Borderlands jus goes from power to power, so we’re thrilled to have Gearbox within the household,” he instructed analysts.