Stealing every headline across the web was Rockstar Games' recent official confirmation that the next Grand Theft Auto game is indeed in development — however, that wasn't the only new reveal the developers had up their sleeves. We now know that Expanded and Enhanced is going to launch on the 15th of March.
Despite rumors of additional delays hitting the next-gen update of GTA 5, it seems that we can expect E&E to go live on Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 quite soon, with a little over a month to go. This lines up with the second release window that Rockstar announced for the title back when it got first delayed.
Expanded and Enhanced was originally slated to launch in November 2021, but was hit with an all too common delay; something we've come to get used to, and even expect, in the current industry climate and state of the world.
Some insiders suspected that another, albeit shorter delay was impending due to troubled development behind the scenes. Apparently the next-gen update for GTA 5 was initially conceived as a set of free patches, making it possible for the backwards compatible versions of the game running on new consoles to make better use of the stronger hardware.
At some point someone became convinced that they can indeed sell the game once again, after two previous re-releases, and to make the idea stick additional upgrades and brand new content were also added to the project.
