The playing fields are darkened by the shadow of a gigantic game release.
When will Grand Theft Auto VI be released? In the absence of a certain date, game publishers have had to hesitate with their own releases. Adobe Stock / AOP
The year 2025 is already just around the corner. There’s a stack of anticipated game releases coming up, but one giant casts its shadow over the entire gaming industry. The Grand Theft Auto 6 game is scheduled to arrive on the market in the fall of 2025, if the project does not experience surprising delays.
So far, the lack of an exact release date has had a peculiar side effect Bloomberg’s according to the insider sources of the game industry interviewed who remain anonymous. We don’t want to cement an exact release date for the games yet, because the fear is that the release window is too close to GTA 6.
According to sources, the publishers are deliberately delaying the announcement of release dates for as long as possible, so that the information about the possible delay of GTA 6 reaches the public sooner.
Grand Theft Auto 6 has been awaited for years and is expected to be a huge hit. GTA 5 has already been released in 2013, but despite this, the popularity of the game has remained strong.
Schedules of big game releases that coincide too closely are one of the challenges of the game industry. For example, the Horizon game series has notoriously bad luck with releases.
Horizon Zero Dawn was released in 2017 practically at the same time as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the latter of which was awarded the best game of the year at the Game Awards.
In 2022, the second part of the game series, Horizon Forbidden West, was released almost at the same time as Elden Ring. Elden Ring also won the title of the best game of the year at the Game Awards.