{"id":908047,"date":"2026-05-24T13:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/grand-theft-auto-vi-is-launching-18-months-behind-the-original-date\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T13:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:17:14","slug":"grand-theft-auto-vi-is-launching-18-months-behind-the-original-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/grand-theft-auto-vi-is-launching-18-months-behind-the-original-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Theft Auto VI is Launching &#8217;18 Months Behind the Original Date&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"innerContent\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vgchartz.com\/articles_media\/images\/grand-theft-auto-vi-is-launching-18-months-behind-the-original-date-621464_expanded.jpg\" alt=\"Grand Theft Auto VI is Launching '18 Months Behind the Original Date'\" width=\"641\">\n                <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/n4g.com\/tips?url=https:\/\/www.vgchartz.com\/article\/467848\/grand-theft-auto-vi-is-launching-18-months-behind-the-original-date\/&#038;title=Grand Theft Auto VI is Launching '18 Months Behind the Original Date'\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s2.n4g.com\/gen\/nb-16x16-icon.gif\"><br \/>\n                 <\/a>\n           <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>by <b><br \/>\n       <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vgchartz.com\/author\/359048\/william-dangelo\/\">William D&#8217;Angelo<\/a><br \/>\n       <\/b>, posted 6 days ago <span>\/ 2,668 Views<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Take-Two CEO\u00a0<\/span><span>Strauss Zelnick in an interview with David Serna on YouTube revealed\u00a0<em>Grand Theft Auto VI\u00a0<\/em>is launching about 18 months later than originally planned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I think we\u2019re about 18 months behind the original date,&#8221; said Zelnick. &#8220;Not much more than that.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The first trailer for <em>GTA 6<\/em> stated a 2025 release window, however, it would be delayed twice. First to May 26, 2026 then to the current release date of November 19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><em>Grand Theft Auto VI\u00a0<\/em>is set to launch for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. A PC version is likely to follow a year or two later.<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1ZgUcrR0K7I\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Zelnick in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vgchartz.com\/article\/467730\/take-two-ceo-explains-why-grand-theft-auto-vi-is-not-launching-on-pc-day-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previous interview revealed<\/a> why the game isn&#8217;t launching on PC day one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Rockstar always starts on console because I think with regard to a release like that you&#8217;re judged by serving the core,&#8221; Zelnick said at the time. &#8220;Like really serving the core consumer. If your core consumer isn&#8217;t there, if they&#8217;re not served first and best, you kind of don&#8217;t hit your other consumers.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em>A life-long and avid gamer,\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vgchartz.com\/author\/79\/william-dangelo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">William D&#8217;Angelo<\/a><em><span>\u00a0<\/span>was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheAlphaTomato\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube channel<\/a><em>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/trunkswd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitch channel<\/a><em>. You can follow the author<\/em><em><span>\u00a0<\/span>on<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/trunkswd.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bluesky<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2>More Articles<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vgchartz.com\/article\/467848\/grand-theft-auto-vi-is-launching-18-months-behind-the-original-date\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by William D&#8217;Angelo , posted 6 days ago \/ 2,668 Views Take-Two CEO\u00a0Strauss Zelnick in an interview with David Serna on YouTube revealed\u00a0Grand Theft Auto VI\u00a0is launching about 18 months later than originally planned.\u00a0 &#8220;I think we\u2019re about 18 months behind the original date,&#8221; said Zelnick. &#8220;Not much more than that.&#8221; The first trailer for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":908048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2809,28205,104640],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-908047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-grand","8":"category-theft","9":"category-youtube-videos"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}