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:
That's an interesting statement for all sorts of reasons,...
