Despite the lull, Take-Two boss suddenly confirmed the exact release date of GTA 6 this fall
With trailers nowhere to be seen for months, a lot of players started to wonder if GTA 6 would actually land when it was supposed to. This will be the first mainline entry in 13 years (i.e., since the last major release), and whispers about internal pushbacks had already shuffled the timetable — from fall 2025 to May 2026, then onward to the current November target. Still, Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive, broke the quiet in an unexpected, off-the-cuff way.
A street interview turned into the moment. The interviewer — creator of the TikTok channel "The School of Hard Knocks" — apparently didn’t recognize him at first. When asked bluntly, "Man, so when is GTA 6 coming out?", Zelnick immediately answered: “November 19.” Fast reply. No caveats.
He didn’t stop at release dates. Zelnick ticked off some financial figures (FYI: Take-Two's 2025 revenue was about $6.7B, and the current-year forecast tops $8B) and offered a short, personal bit of advice: “Never compromise your conscience. That’s the only thing you have.” On whether everyone should blindly chase their dreams, he gave a blunt, practical take:
I think in half the cases that’s terrible advice. People should look for the intersection between what they do well and what they enjoy doing, but with the main emphasis on what they do well.
So yes — a date on record, and not from a press release. Whether Rockstar will wrap everything up in the remaining months is still an open question; the console launch is slated for November, yet the developer’s continued silence keeps plenty of players skeptical.