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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