GTA 6 was first announced back in December 2023, to the reactions of millions of frenzied fans across social media, who were just happy they were given a release date for the video game, which has been 11 years in the making.

The ninety-second trailer hinted at a few potential features, such as in-game social media being introduced, 24/7 news channels, police body cam footage and more.

At the end of it all, it simply read: ‘Grand Theft Auto VI, coming 2025’.

A release read: “With many exciting new titles coming in fiscal 2026 – including GTA 6 in the Fall, Borderlands 4 and Mafia: The Old Country – we expect to create long-term value for our shareholders.”

Fiscal 2026 refers to the financial year that starts in April 2025 and ends in March 2026.

It looks like the game is on course for a similar release date to its predecessor, which came out on 17 September, 2013.

It’s the first major update on the game since the trailer was released, which was said to be rushed after footage of the game was leaked on social media in the days before.

GTA V was released in the Autumn of 2013 (Rockstar)

The news comes after a 365-day window was given at the end of the trailer, which was enough for Rockstar fans, with lead characters Lucia and Jason set to have a Bonnie and Clyde-inspired relationship intertwined with crime and love.

The former will become the first female lead in the franchise, with the sixth game of the series also heading back to Vice City, inspired by Miami, for the first time since 2002.

Despite a former Rockstar employee hinting towards a potential 2026 release due to delays on past games, fans have stayed hopeful.

PC users will be made to wait regardless though, as it was announced by Rockstar themselves that the game will be made available to PlayStation and Xbox users by 2025, with no mention of those on computers.

A ‘leaked’ date of 27 October 2025 made its way across the internet after appearing on IMDb recently as well, though this should be taken with a pinch of salt, despite Rockstar’s parent company’s good performance.

You’ve all read the memes online about how we got ‘such and such before GTA 6′ – but you won’t be able to say that soon.

Take-Two Interactive, a major investor of the Rockstar Games, has come out to publicly show the notes from their conference call, which explained how well the company performed financially in quarter 1 of Fiscal Year 2025.

And it means good things for the future of the classic game series.

If you’re not sure what the whole finance thing means, every company’s financial year is usually between April to April – so if the 2025 financial year is April 2024, to April 2025, this is the first quarter of the fiscal year they can report on.

It’s confusing, but it’s a little bit of information you now know about.

Anyway, the company explained that the call between the Chairman and the CEO, and Strauss Zelnick was very positive about the game.

GTA 6 is highly anticipated for next year. (Rockstar Games)

Focusing on the GTA franchise, he shared that releasing GTA 6 as planned in Autumn next year is all good to go.

Zelnick talked about the game during the call, its development and other GTA successes for the company.

He said as per ComicBook.com: “The Grand Theft Auto series exceeded our expectations, as momentum continues to build ahead of the launch of Grand Theft Auto VI in Fall 2025.”

“Unit sales for Grand Theft Auto V continue to grow, and to date, the title has sold-in over 200 million units.

“Grand Theft Auto Online also surpassed our projections, led by its Summer content pack, Bottom Dollar Bounties, which launched June 25th.

“The audience for Rockstar’s premium membership service, GTA+, grew strong double digits over last year, with Rockstar Games offering its members an array of valuable benefits that range from enhancing the in-game experience to providing access to their classic titles, including the recent addition of L.A. Noire.”

GTA 6 will still be released in autumn next year (Rockstar Games)

Even though business is doing well and the success of GTA isn’t slowing down anytime soon, fans are still asking when they’ll be able to see another teaser trailer after the official was released not too long ago.

Well, it’s almost been a year and we’re looking at you, Rockstar Games.

Eight months have passed since the Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer was released by the companies which threw fans into utter chaos.

However, we’ve had nada since.

If we’re going to go off GTA 5’s marketing strategy, surely, we should be waiting another four months until the second trailer drops as there was a year between the two during that round of promotional material.

11 months passed between the Red Dead Redemption 2’s official announcement and its second trailer, too.

So, we should be prepared for the second to drop in December – just in time for Christmas.

Obviously, nobody has confirmed this but come back to this article before New Years and let us know if we were right.