The head of Take-Two confirms his support for the postponement of GTA VI and expects “standard reservations” despite the postponement

The CEO of Take-Two Interactive confirmed Strauss Zelnik The company fully supports Rockstar’s decision to postpone the launch of the GTA VI game, which was previously scheduled to be released in the fall of 2025 to May 26, 2026.

In Official Today, Zellnik explained that this delay comes within the Rockstar vision to launch a high -style recreational experience. He said:

We fully support Rockstar Games an additional time to achieve their creative vision of the Grand Theft Auto VI, which is to provide a leading recreational experience that exceeds the expectations of the masses.

He added:

Although we take the issue of postponing our publications seriously and appreciate deep passion and high expectations from players around the world, we affirm our commitment to excellence in all our projects.

Despite the announcement of the postponement of the Grand Theft Auto VI, Take-Two stressed that it still expects to achieve record levels of net bookings during the 2026 fiscal year, which ends on March 31 of the same year. The company also expects to record other records during the fiscal year 2027 as well, thanks to a series of upcoming publications within its future plan.

GTA VI: The highest price in the history of games?

This permit coincided with the continued analysis of the game price when it was launched. Earlier this year, the famous analyst expected Michael Bacter Take-Two puts GTA 6 at an unprecedented price that may exceed $ 100 per version. It justified this with the possibility of including incentives in the game, such as huge amounts of virtual currency that can be used in GTA Online.

GTA 5 still breaks numbers

It is noteworthy that the previous version of the GTA 5 series, which was launched in 2013, is still winning successes. Where Take-Two announced last February that the game exceeded the barrier of 210 million globally shattered numbers in the date of entertainment.