GTA 6 Publisher Makes Official Statement On Grand Theft Auto 7

It really has been an extraordinarily long journey towards Grand Theft Auto VI’s eventual release to players, and we are finally just a week or so away from players getting their hands on it for the first time. We don’t have a specific timeline for when they started development in earnest, but it has been thirteen years since the last release and some journey for everyone along the way.

There were delays, endless rumors, leaks, and all kinds of other speculation, with GTA VI probably securing its position as the most highly anticipated video game release of all time. As such, you’d expect all the attention to be on that for a while, but the publisher has already made their thoughts known about the next game in the series, and it’s likely we won’t be waiting anywhere near as long next time around.

IGN recently conducted an interview with Take-Two Interactive (Rockstar’s parent company) CEO Strauss Zelnick in which they reference a Bloomberg report where senior developers claimed that the processes for the next games in the series will be a lot more expedient. Zelnick responded to those revelations, saying:

”We do think that the nature and velocity of the content we’ll see from our iconic franchises, including GTA, will look dramatically different over the next decade. And that’s really being driven by our industry-leading commitment to releasing the highest quality entertainment, to reaching our players in new ways and in new places and trying to maintain engagement with our consumers post-launch.”

That’s an interesting statement for all sorts of reasons, not least because it clearly applies to all the major franchises under Take-Two’s control beyond just GTA.

Grand Theft Auto VI is obviously also going to receive a lot of post-launch support from the developer after its initial release. While we don’t know if we’ll be getting official single-player DLC for the game just yet, the online modes are going to remain relevant for a long time, and players will need plenty of fresh content to keep them coming back.

That should give them plenty of funds to work on development of the next game in the series, but it will be interesting to see how exactly they plan to expedite the process so significantly. It may well be that GTA VI is set to serve as a foundational game, and the next release will use it as a basis to bring players new experiences.

Jason and Lucia in all black SWAT gear GTA 6.

The game looks absolutely stunning, and so it’s difficult to see a world in which visual fidelity advances so far that the engine can’t keep up with a game that’s releasing in seven or eight years. It could also mean that a lean towards further live service elements is coming, though that is just speculation at this point.

In any case, we don’t need to worry about all of that just yet, as we’ll all be jumping into the world of Grand Theft Auto VI for the first time on November 19. Let’s just hope it ends up being everything we are expecting it to be when it does.