Take-Two Interactive has made its latest earnings call public this week, and once again, the industry's biggest secret in GTA 6 appears to be having a substantial impact on the company's outlook.
While the report talks plenty about Fiscal Year 2024, which is currently ongoing through March of next year, the GTA owner also puts a strong emphasis on how important the following financial year will be. Here's what CEO Strauss Zelnick had to say about the team's FY2025 outlook:
"We remain confident that we are positioning our business for a significant inflection point in fiscal 2025, which we believe will include new record levels of operating performance. We would like to thank all of our stakeholders for their continued support, and we look forward to delivering on this exciting next chapter."
Now, we don't know about you, but "new record levels of operating performance" certainly sounds like it'd be helped quite a bit by a big new release. You know, something like a new Grand Theft Auto game launching for the first time in over a decade.
Bearing in mind that Fiscal Year 2025 runs from April 2024 to March 2025, we might not be that far away from the launch of GTA 6 after all. We wouldn't expect it to arrive before late 2024, but still, that's not too far away at this point!
We should point out that a new GTA game wasn't named specifically in this report (the game hasn't even been formally named yet), but we know it's coming - and it could be here relatively soon if you look at how long we've waited since GTA 5 first launched.
When do you think GTA 6 will actually come out? Place your best guesses down below.
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Translation: Shark cards are even more of a priority for GTA6.
Maybe planning ports of other 'old' games that they can [try to] sell for $50 - GTA3 bundle now playable on Switch/Playstation 4/5 for $50 LOL
I'm hoping that for once people will not give R* a pass and actually criticize GTAVI, instead of shilling it to no end like everyone did with V, which was outdated the day it came out.
I mean, they could surprise me and overhaul the gameplay and mission design, but who's expecting that?
If they don't seriously fix the formula, it'll be an incredibly outdated game, but we all know it'll sell and review very well based on name alone.
@clvr Yep the car handling, combat and AI in GTA5 are all pretty mediocre to downright bad too.
We all loved GTA in the past for the sheer freedom, variety and massive settings - many other games have now overtaken them on much of those.
And yes the missions and gameplay can be infuriating - the amount of times I've failed missions over the year due to a stupid bug, which has taken forever to do and you can't save within missions so have to redo huge amounts.
GTA6 needs to significantly improve the above systems to be worthwhile playing - unfortunately you're right, it'll likely sell shedloads even if it sucks...
@Widey85 wow, I usually get dogpiled when I criticize GTA, thanks lol
Yeah R* was never good at gameplay, and I get excusing that fact for a couple of PS2 games, but even by the time San Andreas was released it was high time they made some improvements, which they kept not making with IV and V.
@clvr gta 5 is clunky so is red dead redemption 2 but they are still to of the best open world games ever made In my opinion I hate rockstar and there cheap cashcraps terrible company now but I can't deny the greatness of them 2 games for me anyway still what they are doing is disgusting and I hope it backfires and them such a scummy company now
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