As The ‘GTA 6’ Meteor Looms, Publishers Are Fleeing The Impact Zone
- GTA 6 is set to launch this autumn, causing anxiety among other game publishers about timing their releases to avoid direct competition with it.
- Several big-name publishers are making alternative plans due to uncertainty around the release of GTA 6, which is expected in autumn 2025.
- Three major publishers publicly acknowledged they plan to delay their game releases if GTA 6 launches as expected.
- Developers from two of the top 10 live service games confirmed plans to delay updates to avoid competing with GTA 6's launch.
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Publishers want to delay games due to arrival of popular GTA VI
The video game Grand Theft Auto VI will be released sometime in late 2025, according to creator Rockstar Games, but the exact date is unknown. Major game publishers wait for the official date to announce the launch dates of their own games.
Three big name games will be delayed if GTA 6 comes out this autumn
Launching a new game anywhere near GTA 6 is practically a death sentence (Rockstar Games) Several publishers have had to concoct alternative plans for releasing new games, depending on when exactly GTA 6 is released. The lack of a concrete release date for GTA 6 may be frustrating news for its fans (Take-Two has only ever said autumn 2025), but it’s even more problematic for other game publishers. Nobody is going to want to release their game an…
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