Rockstar Says GTA 6 'Will Be The Largest Game Launch in History'

Rockstar has immoderate peculiarly expansive hopes for Grand Theft Auto 6, with the developer referring to its upcoming task arsenic "the largest crippled motorboat successful history."

The company's assertion — which fewer are apt to reason with — was published arsenic portion of a occupation advertisment viewable via Rockstar's website. In it, the developer says it is seeking a pb bundle technologist to guarantee everything goes smoothly erstwhile GTA 6 yet arrives adjacent year.

Rockstar's fortunate campaigner volition enactment with "some of the astir talented radical successful the industry", the institution said, to assistance make the information level down the upcoming behemoth.

"With the continued maturation of Grand Theft Auto Online and the upcoming merchandise of Grand Theft Auto 6, the palmy campaigner volition pb some the improvement and cognition of the information level supporting what volition beryllium the largest crippled motorboat successful history," Rockstar wrote, "ensuring it scales to present an exceptional acquisition for millions of players worldwide."

At the clip of writing, the astir caller mentation of the occupation advertisement (first spotted connected societal media by TheGTABase) nary longer includes this paragraph, though IGN was capable to presumption an older, archived mentation of the leafage to verify it was antecedently present.

It's unclear whether Rockstar is referring to GTA 6 arsenic being the largest crippled motorboat successful presumption of however lucrative it volition be, oregon however galore players are apt to beryllium flocking into the crippled during its archetypal fewer days. Analyst steadfast Ampere antecedently estimated that GTA 6's apt interaction connected the gaming manufacture volition beryllium worthy $2.7 billion.

Currently acceptable to motorboat successful conscionable 8 months' time, GTA 6 volition people the archetypal caller introduction successful Rockstar's best-selling bid successful implicit a decade. There's plentifulness of pent up request for a caller Grand Theft Auto, then, since GTA 5 primitively launched backmost for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 successful 2013.

A caller trailer showed disconnected overmuch much of GTA 6, including its dual protagonists Jason and Lucia, and yet acceptable a May 26, 2026 merchandise date. Still, though, there's overmuch astir the crippled that's being kept nether wraps.

So far, Rockstar has not shared immoderate details of GTA 6's mentation of GTA Online, which presumably this occupation applicant volition beryllium moving connected if they are starring improvement of its information platform. Whether the caller mentation of GTA Online launches time and day with the main GTA 6 run remains to beryllium seen, nevertheless — and that's if determination are nary further delays to the task overall.

Whenever GTA 6 does arrive, it's just to accidental that nary different crippled developer volition privation to motorboat their task anyplace adjacent Rockstar's release. Indeed, earlier this month, Ghost of Yotei manager Nate Fox said his squad astatine Sucker Punch celebrated GTA 6's erstwhile hold retired of this year, giving their crippled a wide tally astatine the holidays. "We're each inactive hungover, multi-month hangover," Fox said. "That was a large day."

Could GTA 6's motorboat gaffe again? Strauss Zelnick, brag of Rockstar genitor institution Take-Two, antecedently told IGN that "historically erstwhile we acceptable a circumstantial date, mostly speaking, we've been precise bully astir reaching it." Here's hoping Rockstar fills that occupation fast.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social