GTA 6 News Drought Continues as Take-Two Focuses on Other Titles

GTA 6 is obviously the biggest of the three. However, Take-Two likely doesn't want to take away the spotlight from its two other blockbuster titles, which brings us to Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick's earlier statement. The cheeky gaming executive has previously mentioned that they're taking a different route with GTA 6, preferring to market it much closer to its release date.

With Mafia: The Old Country confirmed for PAX East on May 8, we can only assume this means that Take-Two won't start actively marketing the sixthquel until after it's finished giving out the proverbial fliers for the Hangar 13 prequel. Then, right around Mafia: The Old Country comes out, Take-Two has to make room for Borderlands 4, leaving most of the marketing for GTA 6 until September or October.

You can take this as either good news or bad news. It's good because it means that we have a clue of when to expect more concrete information about GTA 6 to come out (and it's coming out in time for the holiday season). It's bad because September is still at least five months away and we likely won't hear much about the game in May when Take-Two holds its next earnings call.

Then again, given that Rockstar Games has starved us of GTA 6 news for 17 months now, what's five more months, right? In the meantime, the rest of the industry can't stop talking about the "huge meteor" and/or "iceberg" that is GTA 6. The latest word is that analysts are propping the game up as the savior of the video game industry.