Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick has talked somewhat extra in regards to the writer’s latest choice to delay the discharge of Grand Theft Auto 6 into Could subsequent yr, saying the sport was pushed again to make sure developer Rockstar may ‘obtain its inventive imaginative and prescient with no limitations’.
GTA 6’s launch was narrowed right down to “fall” 2025 final Could, and Take-Two was nonetheless publicly sticking to that focus on as lately as February this yr, regardless of persistent rumblings of a delay. Nevertheless, all issues modified earlier this month when Rockstar introduced it could be shifting GTA 6’s launch to twenty sixth Could subsequent yr, saying it wanted “this further time to ship on the stage of high quality you anticipate and deserve.”
A number of weeks on and Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick has now shared his personal perspective on the delay choice. “As we get nearer to completion of a title that is in search of perfection,” he informed IGN, “the wants or lack thereof, for continued polish change into clear. On this case there was a chance with a small quantity of incremental time, we thought, to ensure Rockstar Video games achieves its inventive imaginative and prescient with no limitations. And I supported in fact that method.”
“And whereas in fact, delays ache me — how may they not?,” Zelnick added, “an important factor to do is to help your groups of their seek for perfection.” As to the potential for an additional delay for Grand Theft Auto 6, Zelnick implied that was unlikely to occur when requested. “I believe traditionally once we set a particular date,” he famous, “typically talking, we have been excellent about reaching it.”
Whereas GTA 6’s delay is probably not absolutely the best for Take-Two, the corporate nonetheless has a busy launch slate heading into the brand new monetary yr, with the likes of Borderlands 4, Mafia: The Previous Nation, and new NBA 2K and WWE 2K instalments on the best way. Followers, in the meantime, have a brand new trailer to pore over and there is a lot packed in there.
