“Grand Theft Auto VI” goes to motor out a number of months later than anticipated.

Rockstar Games, writer of the massively widespread franchise, introduced Friday that “GTA 6” is now set to launch on Could 26, 2026. That’s on the Tuesday following the Memorial Day vacation within the U.S. subsequent 12 months. Beforehand, the corporate has been saying the action-adventure open world title was on observe for a fall 2025 launch.

“We’re very sorry that that is later than you anticipated. The curiosity and pleasure surrounding a brand new Grand Theft Auto has been actually humbling for our whole group. We would like to thanks for your assist and your persistence as we work to end the sport,” Rockstar stated in a statement.

The sport writer continued, “With each sport now we have launched, the aim has all the time been to attempt to exceed your expectations, and Grand Theft Auto VI isn’t any exception. We hope you perceive that we’d like this additional time to ship on the stage of high quality you count on and deserve.”

“GTA 6” is the primary main installment within the cars-and-mayhem sport sequence in additional than a decade. The brand new title stars Lucia, the franchise’s first feminine protagonist, and takes place in Vice Metropolis, the Miami-inspired locale that was the setting for 2002’s “Grand Theft Auto: Vice Metropolis.”

Take-Two Interactive, mum or dad of Rockstar, has been telling “GTA” followers — and Wall Road — that the tentpole sport was set for a launch window this fall. “We’ve introduced a reasonably slim window [for ‘GTA 6’]. So I feel our view is that proper now, that’s positive,” Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick advised Selection in February.

Rockstar hasn’t launched pricing particulars for “GTA 6” but. The sport’s fifth main installment, first launched in 2013, stays one of many business’s largest reside gaming companies. “GTA V” has offered greater than 200 million copies and generated greater than $8 billion in income over its lifetime.