GTA 6 is anticipated as a major release in 2025, yet Rockstar has not confirmed an exact launch date, which is causing anxiety among game studios. Industry expert Ben Porter remarked that the uncertainty surrounding GTA 6 could jeopardize the fate of other games, as companies are either delaying or hastily altering their release plans to avoid competition. Although GTA 6 is expected to rejuvenate the market, Porter cautions that its impact might not be universally positive, leading to potential financial risk for other studios.
If you're a game company who's holding its breath waiting for GTA 6 to get out, and then it gets delayed by three, four, five, six months, what do you do? You either have to be able to launch into that big black hole that's been left open now, or you have to extend your run rate by an additional six months--I'm certain some companies are going to tank as a result of that, right?
Everybody that we're talking to, they're ships trying to move out of the way of this big iceberg that is GTA 6. So if that's what everybody's behavior is, then how do you believe that this is going to rejuvenate the games industry?
There is a fear that GTA 6 is sucking all the space out of the industry, but this might not tell the whole story.
At the end of 2024, it was reported that many publishers were waiting to assign release dates to their own titles until Rockstar confirmed a date for GTA 6.
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