[Update]
Rockstar’s Sam Houser has now confirmed GTA VI’s trailer will be arriving next month.
Rockstar Games could officially announce GTA VI as early as this week before showing the first trailer for the hotly-anticipated title next month.
GTA VI Announcement Is a Long Time Coming
As reported by Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, the trailer for the crime epic would be released to coincide with the 25th anniversary of Rockstar Games.
It’s been a decade since GTA V was released, and five years since Rockstar’s last title, Red Dead Redemption 2, so anticipation, and frustration, have grown immensely with the longest wait for a Grand Theft Auto game by some margin.
Not that GTA has been forgotten, GTA V is the second best-selling video game of all time behind only Minecraft, with more than 185 million copies of the game sold during those ten years and three different console generations. Its GTA Online component has been a constant source of revenue for Rockstar and parent company Take Two after a rocky launch a few weeks after GTA V’s September 17 launch in 2013.
That signals just how big any GTA VI announcement will be. Its predecessor has become an ecosystem that has endured far beyond the main story. Topping that impact, let alone replacing it, will be difficult, even for Rockstar.
It’s known that GTA VI features two protagonists and is set in a fictional Miami, which has previously been called Vice City in GTA games.
Of course, we’ve seen GTA VI in action, albeit in an earlier, cruder form, when hours of pre-alpha gameplay footage was leaked from a network intrusion in 2022. The hack that led to this was investigated, and two UK teens were charged and convicted.
Rockstar was mired in controversy in the wake of Red Dead Redemption 2’s release for its poor work culture, and in its last dalliance with GTA, it faced massive backlash for the poor state of the GTA Trilogy remasters of GTA III, GTA Vice City, and GTA San Andreas.
