Given the current PS5 and Xbox Series X shortages, Rockstar Games is apparently waiting until there is a 'big enough market' for these consoles - in other words, until the majority of players can actually get their hands on them. In addition, Henderson claims that GTA 6 will only release on PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC. Rockstar reportedly doesn't want to announce the game until it's confident that it will hit its release date, with an aim to avoid any delays, but wants to do so without making employees work extremely long hours to meet a deadline. The biggest is that apparently, Rockstar Games has been focusing heavily on 'employee wellbeing' for the past 15 to 16 months, with the developer aiming to avoid crunch culture. There are a few reasons for this, according to Henderson.

In the video, Henderson predicts that GTA 6 isn't going to release until between 20, based on his sources. The notable leaker, who is primarily known for his (mostly) accurate leaks on Battlefield and Call of Duty, posted a video sharing a bunch of alleged GTA 6 details. This 2024 spike almost lines up with leaker Tom Henderson's GTA 6 release date prediction. If it is GTA 6 that has caused this spike, this would suggest that a delay has occurred. Originally this spike was expected to take place in the fiscal year 2023, however, it's been pushed back to 2024. If this prediction is correct then we would expect to see GTA 6 release sometime between April 2023 and March 2024. In a note to investors, included in VentureBeat's report, Cohen pointed out that previous marketing budgets have predicted the releases of other big releases from Take-Two Interactive, including Red Dead Redemption 2. This led industry analyst Jeff Cohen to predict that this spike is because GTA 6 is expected to release within this period. As reported by VentureBeat, Take-Two's 10-K SEC filing (which lays out financial plans for the next five years) shows that the company expects to spend $89 million on marketing between April 2023, and the end of March 2024 - that's a huge spike and, as the report points out, more than half the marketing budget expected for any other fiscal year over the next decade. However, while the Kotaku report didn't give us an idea of when GTA 6 will release, publisher Take-Two Interactive's marketing budget may have given us our most solid GTA 6 release date hint. It seems that it's still early days for Grand Theft Auto 6, with a Kotaku report claiming that GTA 6, or at least 'a new entry in the Grand Theft Auto series,' was in early development as of April 2020. That means that there's not much to go on from developer Rockstar Games about Grand Theft Auto 6 at the moment, but it doesn't mean that we haven't got a rough idea of when we can expect to get our hands on the new GTA.

So when is GTA 6 coming out? Unfortunately, the new GTA 6 hasn't even been officially announced, never mind given a release date.

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