While fans are growing restless amid the long wait for Grand Theft Auto 6, the CEO of Take Two, Rockstar Games' parent company, claims the developer is still releasing games regularly, equating GTA Online updates to full releases. GTA 6 was recently delayed into 2026, which will result in an eight-year gap since Rockstar's last game, 2018's Red Dead Redemption 2.
Take-Two CEO Stauss Zelnick spoke with The Game Business (via GamesRadar) about Rockstar's protracted development cycles, arguing:
"In the case of Grand Theft Auto, we have Grand Theft Auto Online, and Rockstar has been supplying content to Grand Theft Auto Online, some of which is so robust that if you go back 15 years, it would have counted as a standalone title. One could really argue that Rockstar has been putting out a new Grand Theft Auto release a couple of times a year."
Zelnick points to the evolving industry, noting that "consumers engage on an ongoing basis" with games, whereas years ago, Rockstar would "work on a title, release the title, hope for the best, and then make another title." Take-Two's business has followed this change:
"Our strategy is when we give consumers a...
