Take-Two reaffirms GTA 6 release date and raises forecast to $8 billion

Take-Two just held its end-of-year earnings report, confirming sales from the previous year and forecasting the next 12 months. As you would expect, Take-Two used the opportunity to reaffirm the November launch date for GTA 6, while also estimating a massive $8 billion in revenue for the year ahead. 

Many analysts already expect Grand Theft Auto 6 is going to be the best-selling game of all time. Take-Two is inclined to agree, with a significantly higher forecast for the next year. While Take-Two brought in $5.33 billion in 24-25 and $6.72 billion in 25-26, the company expects to make as much as $8.1billion in the 26-27 fiscal year. The reason for the bump is obvious – Grand Theft Auto 6 is coming out.

With all of this in mind, it would seem that Take-Two expects GTA 6 to bring in more than $1 billion on its own during the current fiscal year.

During the call, Take-Two CEO, Strauss Zelnick, also reaffirmed that Grand Theft Auto 6 is still planned to release on November 19th, and marketing is due to ramp up this summer, although Take-Two says it will be handling marketing a little differently this time around compared to GTA V. There will be fewer ‘network TV' ads and instead, the focus will be on web advertisement, as network TV is considered a less reliable medium nowadays given the rise of streaming over the past decade.

KitGuru Says: Are you planning on picking up GTA 6 at launch or will you be waiting for the PC version in a couple years' time? 

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