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GTA 6 Production Reportedly Falling Behind, Rockstar Urges Staff To Return To Office To Avoid Delay [Update]

The open-world sequel is set to launch next year, but leadership is worried it could get delayed until 2026

kotaku.com

Grand Theft Auto VI is likely one of the most anticipated games in history, with millions of players around the world waiting for any scrap of info or screenshot of the upcoming open-world crime simulator. However, as remote workers struggle with an unwanted return-to-office mandate from Rockstar Games, Kotaku has learned from sources with knowledge of the game’s development process that GTA 6 could miss its 2025 release window and slip into 2026.

Officially unveiled in December 2023 (after a massive 2022 leak) GTA 6 is the hotly anticipated follow-up to 2013’s GTA V. Over a decade after that game’s release—and its massive, still-growing sales numbers—Rockstar Games is hard at work on the sequel, which is set in Vice City, a fictional take on Miami, Florida. The game is set to come to PS5 and Xbox Series sometime in 2025, and internally that’s still the plan. Kotaku was told by sources with knowledge of the situation that “early 2025” is currently the goal.

However, Kotaku has also learned that it’s becoming more and more likely that the sequel might not land until late 2025. It’s also possible that it could even slip into 2026 as production reportedly falls behind.

 

[kiphalfton]

Pretty sure they were already told to come back to be office...

Are they asking them to live in the office?

Joking aside, that would probably kill the average dev, if they had to live in a "man camp" (i.e. live on site where you work).

 

[Rudius]

This will end up being an almost cross gen game, like GTA V was.

 

[Salty Popsicle]

Looks like a 2025/26 Next Xbox was good timing by MS.

 

[Hudo]

Are they asking them to live in the office?

They're asking them to be the office.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Kotaku deciding to put out "actual" news articles now that their wings were clipped and were told they were making guides instead

Too late fucko's. Enjoy the fall.

 

[Sybrix]

Calling bullshit stiring.

Using the biggest entertainment product to push the work from office agenda, seems like a corporate mantra push.

 

[kiphalfton]

Kotaku is deciding to put out "actual" news articles now that their wings were clipped and were told they were making guides instead

Too late fucko's. Enjoy the fall.

May god have mercy on those poor souls who follow their guides, if their gaming ability (or lack thereof) is any indication of their guide writing "ability".

 

[Zimmy68]

So, the staff that complained about long work weeks without a break actually work from home?

 

[Fake]

Guess what, will get delay because people cry over the horror of to go back to the office.

 

[TheRedRiders]

 

[bitbydeath]

Kotaku is deciding to put out "actual" news articles now that their wings were clipped and were told they were making guides instead

Too late fucko's. Enjoy the fall.

This is probably made up for clicks, they don’t create news.

 

[StueyDuck]

Don't give kotaku clicks people. Let them whimper off and disappear, it's only a matter of time.

Giving them clicks now will only delay the process

 

[balls of snow]

Is this the last article from Loltaku before the 50 guides a week mandate.
God I sure hope so.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Looks like a 2025/26 Next Xbox was good timing by MS.

I mean even if its a $1000 the whispers say nextbox will be over 2x the power of the PS5 Pro and I have no reason to doubt him I am 100% buying the best console experience for GTA VI

 

[bitbydeath]

I mean even if its a $1000 the whispers say nextbox will be over 2x the power of the PS5 Pro and I have no reason to doubt him I am 100% buying the best console experience for GTA VI

134TF would be mighty impressive.

 

[Xtib81]

At this rate, the PS6 will be the best place to play this damn game.

 

[Little Chicken]

September 2025.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Looks like a 2025/26 Next Xbox was good timing by MS.

i wonder how MS is going to fuck up this time.

 

[StereoVsn]

i wonder how MS is going to fuck up this time.

 

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[Jibran#one]

People still haven't returned to offices ? Da fuck

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

i wonder how MS is going to fuck up this time.

Phil is a creative guy. He will come up with something.

People still haven't returned to offices ? Da fuck

They must be far from their homes.

 

[EDMIX]

yea...that sounds like strong doubt.

1. they were already told to return

2. that game is already far along

 

[Ozzie666]

First of many guides
How to return to the office

 

[March Climber]

Early 2025 believers...

 

[Loomy]

Translation:
"Come work in the office so we can make you feel bad for leaving after 8 hours and low key force you to work 12 hour days to get this game out on time"

 

[Bernardougf]

Calling bullshit stiring.

Using the biggest entertainment product to push the work from office agenda, seems like a corporate mantra push.

Holy shit .. working in a office ? Thats just madness! Thats sooo 2019!

 

[Quasicat]

People still haven't returned to offices ? Da fuck

This is what I was wondering. My school did remote work for three months, the summer, then we were back in the fall of 2020. Granted it was very different as I only had 15 kids vs. 30 in a class, but we have been business as usual since August 2021.

 

[Sushi_Combo]

This is what I was wondering. My school did remote work for three months, the summer, then we were back in the fall of 2020. Granted it was very different as I only had 15 kids vs. 30 in a class, but we have been business as usual since August 2021.

School and office work are very different.

 

[FinalBossWithTheMostPower]

 

[MayauMiao]

Isn't this old news?

‘Grand Theft Auto’ Maker Rockstar Games Asks Workers to Return to Office Five Days a Week

Rockstar Games, a division of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., will ask employees to return to the office five days a week beginning in April as the video-game maker enters the final stages of development on its next game, the hotly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI.

www.bloomberg.com

 

[Quasicat]

School and office work are very different.

I agree that they are both different, but looking at things through the pandemic, I imagine, working in an office would be safer from illness than working in a classroom full of kids. My limited experience in an office had me in a cubicle most of the day. I did not have a lot of close contact interaction with my coworkers during the day. In the classroom, anytime, I was within 6 feet of someone that tested positive, I had to be quarantined. Being in a cubicle all day, I would have no interaction so I wouldn’t have been within 6 feet of anyone at any point through my workday except when I was at lunch or in the restroom.
Perhaps working in this office would be different.

 

[Woggleman]

We probably will not get the game until fall 2025. Most big Rockstar releases happen in the fall.

 

[Majima Everywhere System]

Console sales behind, not enough users for GTA6. Invent delay.

 

[adamsapple]

Isn't this old news?

‘Grand Theft Auto’ Maker Rockstar Games Asks Workers to Return to Office Five Days a Week

Rockstar Games, a division of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., will ask employees to return to the office five days a week beginning in April as the video-game maker enters the final stages of development on its next game, the hotly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI.

www.bloomberg.com

Wanting people back is old news, but the production being behind schedule is the new bit. The article's source is telling them that's directly related to the above.

 

[FeralEcho]

At this point,the employer would have to be Jordan Belfort to get these fuckers back in the office with how reluctant everyone seems to be about it lol

 

[onQ123]

Microsoft

 

[Kokoloko85]

Hire some more workers, you have the money Take2/Rockstar.

Dont the employees have contracts where if you work more than your contract your get paid Extra? So just hire moe people, plenty in the industry have been fired recently, hire them.

 

[JerryinSoCal]

This almost sounds like they are just going with the old news and adding something to it. They've given the reason they want everyone back and it makes sense.

 

[Sybrix]

Holy shit .. working in a office ? Thats just madness! Thats sooo 2019!

If productivity is impacted by WFH then fine, i get it.

But the cat's out the bag, WFH is here to stay, gone are the days of 5 days a week in an office, each company just needs to find a balance.

 

[Elios83]

I doubt they'll skip holiday 2025.
Target is early 2025, could slip into a holiday release.

 

[West Texas CEO]

Console sales behind, not enough users for GTA6. Invent delay.

The PS5 has already passed 50 million.
The PS5 Pro will push that number past 75 million.

 

[rofif]

Are you guys really interested in gta6?
I don't feel anything. I don't care like at all.
Which is weird since I was always hyped for new gta. I was there for every single one

 

[ManaByte]

The PS5 has already passed 50 million.
The PS5 Pro will push that number past 75 million.

The Pro is not going to sell 25 million before GTA6 releases. The PS4 Pro only sold 22 million in its entire lifetime.

 

[Majima Everywhere System]

The PS5 has already passed 50 million.
The PS5 Pro will push that number past 75 million.

They have been releasing games near the end of generations. So it is a little early for them.

 

[killatopak]

Can't even blame them. This is purely the employee's fault.

Want to work from home? Just make sure your productivity is the same as it is on your actual working place.

The Pro is not going to sell 25 million before GTA6 releases. The PS4 Pro only sold 22 million in its entire lifetime.

Probably means both base+pro combined will make it 75m by 2025.

 

[Kokoloko85]

Are you guys really interested in gta6?
I don't feel anything. I don't care like at all.
Which is weird since I was always hyped for new gta. I was there for every single one

It looks great if your a GTA fan. After RDR2 I can see them taking this to another level

 

[Kokoloko85]

The Pro is not going to sell 25 million before GTA6 releases. The PS4 Pro only sold 22 million in its entire lifetime.

I think he means in combination with regular PS5’s.

GTA6 will probably release close to summer 2025? September or even November 2025. By then PS5 will have sold more than 75million.
They will probably reach close to 70million by the end of 2024

 

[ManaByte]

I think he means in combination with regular PS5’s.

GTA6 will probably release close to summer 2025? September or even November 2025. By then PS5 will have sold more than 75million.
They will probably reach close to 70million by the end of 2024

The Pro might not even launch until February or March due to lack of software to drive it. A $600+ console is not going to move that fast. The first couple years of the PS4 Pro only saw it moving 2-3 million units. It didn't pick up until the end of the lifecycle.