Holiday 2026, though I could see it slip into the first half of 2027 but we'll see.
This shit sounds diabolical and exactly like something R* would do.
My younger brother still insists on a 2025 release date and even wanted to bet on it against me. Would be easy money but I don't want to part the poor fella from his newly earned money as a 18 year old youngster.
He also believed the moon phase announcement theory in November with that GTA Online picture so he is still a bit green behind the ears…
I am getting a bit nostalgic to the times when the world was awaiting GTA V and sometimes even GTA IV and people were going crazy for every little bit of info.
But it wasn't that bad for GTA IV at least, iirc that even had an announcement at the Microsoft E3 presser.
RockstarGames created such a phenomenon with this series, it just fascinates me.
Even if they decided not to do any marketing on this game and shadow drop it, it would easily become the best selling game of its generation.
Nobody likes how they milk GTA Online to death and they came up with some questionable and shady business practices by monetizing that game but when a new GTA is coming up then R* gets all the trust because they earned it.
Even for a series like GTA I wouldn't have thought in 2013 that more than 11 years later the online mode of GTA V would still be the current one, getting content updates every 5-6 weeks and printing them money like crazy, but here we are.
All I want for Christmas 2026 is a new GTA.