Grand Theft Auto 6. Almost eight years after the franchise's fifth mainline entry, we're still waiting on the follow-up. You can thank GTA Online for that in part, with developer Rockstar continuing to update and support the online behemoth through what is soon to be three console generations. That's a very impressive feat, but fans who love the satirical take on America in a single player form have been left waiting for almost a decade. And according to claims from one leaker, which have been picked up by GameSpot, GTA 6 is still many years away. It reportedly won't be out on PS5 until 2025.
The claim has been made by YouTuber Tom Henderson, who is known for leaking details surrounding the Call of Duty and Battlefield series. In his video on the topic, he speaks of information he has been handed via independent sources which, of course, won't be named to protect their identity. As well as saying GTA 6 will be out in 2025, Henderson claims the game will be set in a modern version of Vice City. This is due in part to the next iteration of GTA Online, which Rockstar reportedly wants to have content created for without any era-based restrictions.
As for the map, Fortnite is referenced in relation to an evolving map that could change in between seasons. The current version of GTA Online has added new locations and areas in the past, but this sounds like an even bigger push into that type of content refreshment. Multiple playable characters is also a possibility for GTA 6.
So, should we trust these claims? If the game really is another four years away, we wouldn't put too much stock in many of the reported features. Development can change on the fly, with mechanics dropped to push a game out faster. It's fairly easy to say GTA 6's online map will change throughout the course of its existence, because what multiplayer game doesn't do that at this point? We think one thing's for sure: GTA 6 is still years away.
[source youtube.com, via gamespot.com]
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As long as Rockstar makes a massive single-player world and campaign so I don't have to deal with GTA Online, I'm down for whatever GTA 6 will be.
GTA 6 can literally just be a Ctrl C + Ctrl V or Breath of the Wild's Hyrule with cars and strip clubs and I'll be down as long as they don't keep shoving GTA Online in my face
File this one under the rumour tag please. It ain’t news until Rockstar confirm.
GTA has been milked to death and I don't understand this big demand for a new game. How about a new Bully? Or maybe an old IP revival?
I don’t know... I’ve always found GTA gameplay quite clunky. Is that a word? 🤷
If they radically overhaul the gameplay, it could work.
But Fortnite is already so good though...
Remember when Rockstar released a game every year? Yea that was nice.
Can't wait until GTA 6 releases so both 5 and 6 can sit in the UK sales charts for years and years 😅
I would argue that's still too soon and optimistic. When you have GTA Online drowning your company in money why waste resources, time and effort on something that could potentially disrupt the constant cash flow.
@TheFrenchiestFry that's the impossibly optimistic scenario though 😛
I expect that we'll still get the same boring open world with nothing interactive in it, and a main character with the responsiveness and dexterity of a plank of wood, but I hope I'm wrong.
If they go from GTAV clunkiness (is that a word?) to BOTW's dynamic... everything, well, I'll eat my hat and buy 10 copies like the British seem to enjoy doing on a weekly basis lol 😆
I wouldn't hold my breath, it's so far away that plans can literally change like 10 times before it releases.
@fR_eeBritney yeah, the gunplay and combat is very clunky. I think this is why I never got hooked to the online part of the game.
I grew up playing GTA games. I have played every single GTA game except the ones on Nintendo consoles. It is somewhat really disappointing to know that I won't get to play a new game for another 4 years.
While I actually really do enjoy playing GTA Online too and been playing it since day one, naturally I want it to keep growing and expanding over time. However, it should have never been a substitute to a GTA franchise as a whole.
For someone who played every game multiple times for thousands of hours, it is always a hard pill to swallow.
For me Rockstar Games is one of the best developers and their studio name means nothing but quality. Sadly, since the departures of many original employees from the company in recent years I think the GTA games will never be the same as they were.
Another reason, in my opinion, it is hard to justify game like GTA in the era of cancel culture. Franchise used to struggle even before, but in this day...
@Divergent95 GTA online has been milked to death, there hasn't really been a miss for the mainline series. its like saying to Nintendo "quit working on Zelda and revive balloon fighters"
Gives us a sequel to Bully in the meantime.
Well.. there is at least one good aspect to its launch date being so far away. It will surely not be a cross-gen game.
2025? im sure we'll already be talking about the ps6 by then lol.
I don't care what they do with GTA Online just as long as the campaign is at the level of GTA 5 or Red Dead and is free of the Online stuff.
Shame its Vice City if true, don't get me wrong i love VC but i would have liked them to go somewhere new rather then a previous location yet again.
@RavenWolfe81 Remember when games were easier and cheaper to make and didn't have the level of crunch Red Dead 2 had? R* make one massive game per Gen now because a game like Red Dead 2 can't be made in a couple of years, it took them years and years to make that game and that was with every R* studio and extreme OTT crunch so imagine how long it would have took if it didn't have crunch or all those studios working on it.
Fortnite and GTA online? Yeah that doesn't really sound like a great combo to me, sounds like my predictions may come true, next GTA will be online focussed, with minimal single player features a distant past, nothing to be excited about really 😑😑
Well we know they love double dippers... so PS6 in 2026?! 😹 just kidding, but really you know they’ll find a way to get people to buy it twice.
Really ought to add "Rumour: " to the headline.
I still don't really care about games that are a ways off. I mean there's still a lot of mysteries to solve in RDR2 and a lot more play left for me in GTAV/O.
Between some of the senior creative departures & maintaining their GTA Online juggernaut,I think we'd be lucky if there is a GTA 6 with a campaign story component like the traditional series.😕
We've seen GTA V & RDR 2 single player add-ons fall by the wayside,(or even an RDR 1/Undead Nightmare remaster),with resources ploughed into the GTA Online cashcow & even standalone RDR 2 online release.
This is obviously all rumour & speculation for now, but taking the EA/Epic/Activision route for an online based game wouldn't be a massive stretch.
I'm 29, but I probably won't be alive to see GTA 6, GTA online makes too much money for them to reinvent the wheel..
This is what we get when we support developers too much! With Dan (who's doug?) Howser and Lazlow leaving, Rockstar north is not the beast it once was and i don't hold any hype for the next game.
Not that bothered either way tbh. That said I wouldn't mind a new Single Player but Multiplayer I'm not interested in that at all anymore.
vice city was my favorite. so an update one is fine by me
If there’s not a proper single player (even if it is but the ‘world’ is multiplayer) I won’t be buying it anyway.
Surely Rockstar are working on another title to bring out in that time?
@Steel76 Yeah but with that large hardware jump over the years it is going to look mental!!!!!!!!
@mrtennis1990 rockstar are a mere shell of their empty self's at this point, the rep record we knew growing up (and i've known rockstar since lemmings days) is long gone
Didn't he get a few things wrong in his previous 'leaks' about BF2042 though? (And only a few months from release)
I'm not sure and would have to go back but that's the feeling I have.
Edit
There you go.
Still he clearly said its his theory but he was completely off and bf is supposed to be his 'speciality
https://twitter.com/Tom_Henderson/status/1382780828258861060?s=19
'In other news, I still have yet to hear anything concrete that #BATTLEFIELD will come to past gen consoles. Theory - It indicates to me that it probably won't and the biggest reason #BATTLEFIELD will come to the Xbox Game Pass on day 1 is to boost up player numbers.'
Sounds about right to me. If I think of the worst thing they could possibly do for the franchise, and presume, for the money, that’s what they’ll do, then it’s not just plausible but practically a certainty something like this will be the case.
@vict0RGM cross gen with PS 6-7-8!! I'm being very serious.
I want a new bully more than anything but on a side note id literally take a new game every year or 2 but only technically advanced as the ps2 games rather than 1 modern game a decade/ 1 every 3 generations of system.
I love GTA, but I always found gameplay too slow and not smooth enough (I think I agree with @fR_eeBritney on that) to really want to dabble in anything outside the campaign.
A changing map for GTA could be great, but only if the map means more than it does now. Most of the buildings are nothing more than geometric shapes with a lick of paint on it at the moment.
Blimey. I will be 59 when it comes out.
2025 feels so far away, as much as I love the dense world of red dead 2, I would take a slightly smaller scale world to see more than one game a gen!
Everything in our culture is so hyper sensitive and politicized, I am sure RockStar does not want to kill the Golden Goose by bringing out something new that could cause a major cancel outrage.
Just my thoughts.
12 years between GTA’s is *****.
I wouldn’t play it
Unless GTA 6 is separated completely from GTA Online, I won't be buying it. I skipped RDR 2 for that reason! I understand its a good game, I just don't want to support multiplayer in any way. That's just me 🤷🏻♂️
Lezlie Benze is The gta (man)....The master mind behind the GTA series that’s why we haven’t seen a new game! I can’t wait to play the game (Everywhere in 2022)...
I would love a Warriors, a Bully, and a San Andreas all remastered for Ps5 in the meanwhile. Please.
I honestly think GTA as we know it is dead.
GTA Online is the money maker and I could honestly see the franchise going the Fortnite route and being solely focused on that the online element rather than a big budget single player campaign.
@WallyWest So you're telling me that they've only released 1 new game since 2013 because game development is harder now? I'd believe you if it was a game every 3 or 4 years but as it goes, I'd say they're poorly managed and inefficient and have the wrong priorities compared to the R* of the ps2/3 gens.
@ViolentEntity An overrated game. Sure it has amazing AI, it's polished yada yada but I found the story to be terrible and the characters are the biggest scum on Earth lol.
For me, GTA IV was the last good game Rockstar made and nobody can convince me otherwise.
with "Fort-nite evolving map"... like "WHY?". why is it that companies keep copying standards that are out there already and have been RUN into the ground? Any MP that says "battle royale" i just totally lose interest in it IMMEDIATELY...Haven't we evolved from that? or are we just going to keep beating the cow until its dead carcass can give us nothing more......
@blinx01 if they do anything remotely similar to Fortnite, Rockstar will never get another penny from me! They LIED to us fans soo much promised DLC for GTA5 and scrapped it, when their GTAO started raking in tons of money, obviously they don't care about their true core base fans anymore, so why should we? Every friggen game doesn't need to have an MP component..ugg
@MakersMark
Unfortunately I don't think they care about the original fanbase.
If they did, the wouldn't be about to ship the same GTA game across what will now be 3 generations of consoles (PS3, PS4, PS5).
It's going to be really interesting to see what they do with GTA6 since their big departures over the last few years. Definitely a different R* from the one who made RDR2. As for the multiplayer portion I continue to be surprised how popular it is for GTA. I personally thought it was just terrible but clearly I'm part of the minority there.
@UrbanPlaystation ahh sorry for the confusion, I meant from a trophy stand point, I know they're meaningless but I dislike online trophies to the point where I don't want a game with their inclusion.
@UrbanPlaystation hit the nail on the head mate, as I've gotten older I get less and less time to game, so I like to game at my own pace and not want/need the inconvenience of involving others. Hopefully one day online will be separate.
I'd love a new manhunt game..with todays tech and desensitised approach to some good old ultra violence i think it would be epic...wheres my plastic bag and glass shiv..
A rumor about GTA 6 maybe releasing four years from now. Well ok cool, but i hope no R* staff responsible for RDO are involved with that project.
If 2025 is the release date then it will be 12 years between GTA 5 and 6. That would be like if Vice City came out in 2013, 12 years after GTA 3 released in 2001.
Yes i wish 6 was releasing today or even a year ago, but as i age i have become more patient in waiting for the good things. GTA 6 will probably be a good thing and so worth the long wait.
that is a ridiculous amount of time!!! I don't believe it Rockstar has a team that is just Grand Theft Auto & it has been in development for easy 6 years now.
Used to think highly of rockstar but they are now one of the worst when it comes to pushing people to buy money and gold. RDR2 online is still bug ridden and it took them months to fix game breaking bugs but only a few days to fix a bug that benefited players as that could have meant players would not buy gold.
@ViolentEntity Didn't play it
Mostly because I'm not into the whole "wild west" setting. Great game, just not for me.
2025 .. sigh
That's so long to wait for a rockstar game i shore hope its not true and gta 6 comes sooner.
projected for 2025? cool, we'll be able to play it in 2027 after it's been delayed a couple times.
I predict it will be out in 2026. Some people told me. Be sure to bookmark this page and check back regularly to see if I'm right.
@RavenWolfe81 Sorry i didn't realise i was talking to a AAA game dev here.
Saints Row anyone lol, by that time some one else will take the thrown
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