Take-Two Interactive‘s stock soared to an all-time high partially due to them reiterating when GTA 6 will release. On Friday, Rockstar Games‘ parent company shared their financial results for Q3 2025 which started in November and ended in January.
The figures exceeded Wall Street expectations. It also led to some groups selling a small percentage of their shares whilst other hedge funds bought up many more shares in anticipation of GTA 6 launching in 2025.
Following the comments about GTA 6 launching later this year and better than expected earnings in the last quarter, Take-Two’s stock surged. The company’s shares opened at $208.77, marking around a 14% increase and reaching a four-year high. Its previous all time high was $213.34 which came days after GTA 6 was confirmed to be in development. Since then, it has not been as high until last week.
As of Monday morning when the market reopened, the price maintained its upwards trajectory. It hit $213.55 which ever so slightly beat the all-time record. Take-Two’s CEO Strauss Zelnick was also interviewed by CNBC about how big the game will be, concerns over violence, AI and more. You can learn more about what he said here.
What Was Different
In their previous two quarterly reports, Take-Two only said GTA 6’s launch window was also still on target for a Fall 2025. There was a lot of speculation it would be delayed this month due to the lack of updates from Rockstar.
This time, not only did Take-Two Interactive keep GTA VI listed as a Fall 2025 but had extra comments. One of the slides of their presentation reads “We forecast that Calendar Year 2025 will be an inflection point for Take-Two-from the groundbreaking release of Grand Theft Auto Vl in the Fall…”
CEO Strauss Zelnick spoke with Variety saying “We’ve announced a pretty narrow window. So I think our view is that right now, that’s fine.” He did raise some caution to IGN saying “there’s always a risk of slippage and I think as soon as you say words like absolutely, you jinx things. So we feel really good about it.”
These comments both on the earnings call and during interviews significantly bolstered both investor and consumer confidence in GTA 6 releasing in 2025. If GTA 6 does get delayed before May (when Take-Two need to give their full year forecast), expect the share price to drop quite a bit from this current high.
As from GTA VI, Take-Two reported GTA V reaching a new sales milestone despite GTA Online spending dipping. Meanwhile GTA+ grew once again with 10% more subscribers year on year. Red Dead Redemption 2 also surpassed 70 million copies worldwide as it recorded its highest ever concurrent player count on Steam.
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Edit this bro, it should be 2024 not 2025:
On Friday, Rockstar Games‘ parent company shared their financial results for Q3 2025 which started in November and ended in January.
My bad bro it’s 4AM, I’m stupid as heck, it’s indeed 2025 lol, forgot predictions exist 😀 Ignore previous comment <3
Haha, no problem. Thanks for reading!
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In an Industry of more and more frequent disaster launches, I think Rockstar knows better than to follow that trend. Rockstar will live up to their name because the fallout of a disaster launch for this title would be a bigger nightmare than cyberpunk was, and they know it. This will be the best selling game of all time.
Im not so sure. Several months back they they said the violence and adult content in gta was going to be dialed back. Thats not reassuring. Thats the last thing they need to change. I believe it will be a good game and it will break sales records initially but I think people expectations might be a bit to high.
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