Grand Theft Auto 6 release date punted to May 2026

[The Shah of Iran]

Go woke go broke right?

Here's a headline from the future:

"GTA 6 Breaks Single Day Entertainment Sales RECORD with $1.4 BILLION"

I hate the term woke as much as based or redpilled because it only really tells me what someone's against rather than for but in aid of a concise point, let's just use them.

GTA is one of if not the strongest IP in the world. $1.4 billion is lowballing it. That doesn't mean it isn't going to be influenced heavily by a generation of people whose ideas have been widely rejected by the international markets. It's perfectly possible for woke media to be good, that's nothing new. Omar in The Wire's a great example. No one gives a fuck that he's gay because every other aspect of the character is well developed. The GTA games upto IV were the same & 5 did well but the story sucked and financially it gets a huge boost from selling flying cars to toddlers in GTA online.

Identity politics hamfisted into the product is what people fear because of prevailing trends in modern western game studios and that's where the financial shortfall begins because you alienate original fanbases and woke people don't pay for shit unless they absolutely have to. GTA will fall into that category because it's been 12 years since the last one, demand for it is higher than any other IP and refunding a AAA game before you realise it's empty is nigh on impossible. a new woke IP (and some previously dependable ones) will fail because all the detail and nuance that hide your politcal messages hidden in your media isn't there, the message needs to be front and centre. That's when a movie/game/show stops being entertainment and starts being school.

 

[Roslyn Heights Biter]

Full disclosure: One of the GTAs is the last video game I ever played and enjoyed it. In fact, I horrified my young nieces and nephews with my delight in running over and reversing on hookers and other scummery. That being said, it still wasn't enjoyable enough for me to have played since. It was pretty much, yeah, that's cool but I'm not a kid so I'm not into any kind of gaming life. In 2025, I'd rather hang out on a message board and make fun of elderly and declining shock jocks. This does not include the OPSTAR as I still find him relevant and bringing his A game.

 

[The Power 9_ Thief]

It will coincide with the PS6 being released

Do we think Xbox even releases a console next generation? I think they’re gonna become a publisher/developer exclusively

 

[LingerLonger]

Do we think Xbox even releases a console next generation? I think they’re gonna become a publisher/developer exclusively

Unless they team up with Valve/Steam they are likely done for hardware. The Activision lawsuit revealed in court documents that since the first Xbox system was launched, Microsoft has a grand total of two profitable quarters in their Xbox division, both due to Xbox Live subscriptions putting them over the top. That's it. Two quarters of profit and the rest are losses including some losses that would be devastating for anything but a trillion dollar company.

Microsoft once tried to sell their entire Xbox division to Samsung. When the Samsung people looked at the financials they didn't even bother negotiating the price down. They just walked away. They've been burning money since the whole 'red ring of death' fiasco with their dogshit foreign manufacturing. Xbox One was probably the worst console launch of all time other than gimmicks like the Ouya.

 

[Scott Peterson Fanclub]

I’m generally curious what they’re gonna do with the online aspects of 6. I know people still play the online for the last one. Are they gonna shut that one down in favor of the new one? If so, I imagine a lot of people are gonna be very pissed off about that who dumped real money for GTA money.

 

[aRTie02150]

I’m generally curious what they’re gonna do with the online aspects of 6. I know people still play the online for the last one. Are they gonna shut that one down in favor of the new one? If so, I imagine a lot of people are gonna be very pissed off about that who dumped real money for GTA money.

It's a tough one man.

 

[Cleo's Dad]

This delay can't be a good thing. Latinas don't age super well. She'll still be wearing that tank top, but she'll be down a couple teeth and up a few pants sizes.

 

[Riccardo Bosi]

No. Not even close.

My point was that there have been female, gay and multicultural leads since video gaming began. You've been programmed to believe over the last 10 years that any type of media featuring anyone who isn't a straight white man is "woke". That's fucking bonkers, and the fact that you fell for that shit tells me you're dumb as fuck.

I literally argued that the older non-straight white male protagonists were not woke, but that even modern straight white male protagonists are woke. Even Arthur Morgan was kinda woke, given that pretty much everybody back then was racist.

Get rhinoplasty, Daniel.

 

[Jim Norton’s Wife's Cock]

GTA is for retarded Mexican kids. Play a Miyazaki game like a real man. Fucking gaybo's.

 

[Scott Peterson Fanclub]

This delay can't be a good thing. Latinas don't age super well. She'll still be wearing that tank top, but she'll be down a couple teeth and up a few pants sizes.

Saggy mexican tits and three kids that look like the fathers who left them.