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GTA 6 reportedly restarted development twice between 2016 and 2019

Grand Theft Auto 6 will be releasing almost 13 years after the previous game in the series, GTA V. In that time, Rockstar spent some time focusing its resources on Red Dead Redemption 2, and then underwent a huge change when company co-founder, Dan Houser, suddenly left the company. A new report claims that struggles getting a vision for GTA 6 off the ground contributed to his departure. 

A report from Favilys, translated by Insider Gaming, makes the claim that Rockstar made three different pitches for the Grand Theft Auto 6 campaign before Take-Two was happy with it. The first version of the game was apparently set to star three new characters, mirroring the structure of GTA V, and would have played out like more of a detective story.

The game was later reworked to centre around two protagonists, one being a member of the Police and the other being a drug smuggler. After 18 months of development on this version of the game, it was apparently cancelled in 2019. After that, Dan Houser made the decision to leave the company he co-founded. Nowadays, Dan Houser has a new media company, working on comics, radio dramas and eventually, it is believed that the company will produce a game.

If this timeline is accurate, then that would mean that the current version of GTA 6 began development in the second half of 2019, giving it a seven-year development window by the time it releases in May 2026.

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KitGuru Says: It is easy to forget that Rockstar has lost some of its most prominent leaders since GTA V released. Still, with GTA being such a flagship franchise, I don't foresee the next game being bad in any way. 

 

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