GTA6: Rockstar owner says Grand Theft Auto 6 on track for Autumn release

Yorkshire Post

Take Two, the owner of the company behind the Grand Theft Auto franchise, has said that Grand Theft Auto six is set to come out in Autmn of this year.

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00:00Hello, I'm Michael Crosland, Business Reporter for the Yorkshire Post, here this morning with some big news for fans of gaming

00:07and more specifically fans of the Grand Theft Auto franchise.

00:11So there's been speculation swirling since before Christmas around an announcement on earnings from Take-Two

00:19which is the owner of Rockstar who make Grand Theft Auto.

00:23What people are saying is that we'll be able to tell from Rockstar's earnings if Grand Theft Auto 6 is set to come out this year

00:31or if it is set to be delayed.

00:33Companies previously said that the game would come out this year but Rockstar does have a bit of a history of delays

00:41so Grand Theft Auto 4 was delayed from October 2007 to April 2008 and GTA 5 also had a four month delay.

00:51This is also something that's just not uncommon in the gaming industry in general.

00:56So speculation around this was saying that if Take-Two expects a huge jump in earnings

01:02then obviously they still expect Grand Theft Auto 6 to come out this year.

01:07Funnily enough Take-Two has not only said that this year is shaping up to be one of its strongest ever

01:14the company has also explicitly named Grand Theft Auto 6 in its release saying that it plans to release the game in autumn.

01:22Now this is huge business news as well.

01:24The game could easily become the best selling game of all time or the second best selling game of all time

01:30which is where Grand Theft Auto 5 currently sits.

01:33Only two games ever have sold over 200 million copies and one of them is Grand Theft Auto 5

01:39the other one being Minecraft.

01:41Some reports estimate that since its release in 2013 Grand Theft Auto 5 has made around £6.6 billion

01:49so obviously a lot to be excited about.

01:53That's all for the time being, I'm Michael Crossland reporting for the Yorkshire Post.

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