It's now been 365 days, a full year, since we got any glimpses of significant Grand Theft Auto 6 news.
On May 6, 2025, Rockstar Games released the game's second trailer, along with a website full of images and details about the game's main and supporting cast, including Jason, Lucia, and Cal. However, that was the last real news we got about the game, aside from a handful of interviews, and it's driving fans to the track.
One year after Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer 2
Marketing for GTA 6 has been slow. With GTA 5, about 7 months before launch, the press had gotten hold of the game and interviews had taken place with its director. We are now in the same window for GTA 6 and have received nothing but silence for a long time.
Take-Two CEO, Rockstar's parent company, Strauss Zelnick has conducted a series of interviews, revealing why GTA 6 will skip PC at launch, that the company will “charge far less than the value of the game” and that he believes anyone over the age of 17 will play the game, but there has been a serious lack of actual, meaningful GTA 6. It's likely that the news is close, given the proximity of the release and Take-Two's May 21 announcement on its fourth-quarter and full-year 2026 results, but for now, nothing.
As has long been the case with Grand Theft Auto 6, players lose their minds, do whatever they can to pass the time, and try to predict when the next news will come.
In the past few weeks alone, a player has hand-counted over 14,000 trees to calculate the game's foliage density, estimating it to be four times denser than Red Dead Redemption 2, and there have been countless theories about when Rockstar will release Grand Theft Auto 6's third trailer.
One such theory used a license plate to suggest a May 15 release date, while another used a Rockstar Newswire post to predict we must be close to something. It's almost a daily occurrence on one of the many GTA 6 subreddits that a new, often crazy theory bubbles to the surface. It gives shades of Hollow Knight: Silksong.
It's not just the fans who have fun predicting things either. Everyone likes to add their two cents, and analysts are no different. One has predicted that the game will outsell almost any game ever in just 24 hours, and another, this time from Bank of America, has suggested that Rockstar should charge $80 for “the best in the entire industry.”
It's a wild situation, and hype levels are at an all-time high. Now we just need to show restraint and patience. And pray there won't be another delay.
