Half a year on from the GTA 6 delay and with 6 months more to go, Rockstar Games’ parent company Take-Two Interactive has issued new financial data to investors. During Take-Two Interactive’s Q2 2026 quarterly earnings presentation, CEO Strauss Zelnick discussed the success of Rockstar Games’ titles over the past three months and GTA VI anticipation.
GTA VI Delay Info
Take-Two, who previously reiterated GTA VI will launch on May 26th 2026, have now said it has been delayed. Despite rumours of a third trailer dropping and pre-orders opening before this investor event, there has been nothing from Rockstar aside from this information.
In financial reports to investors, Take-Two say “We remain both excited and confident they will deliver an unrivalled blockbuster entertainment experience.”
In an interview with The Games Business, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said “We feel really good about this release date. It’s in the same fiscal year, it happens to be a great release window, and naturally we’re really supportive of Rockstar’s approach. It’s not that far in advance if you look at when you need to deliver a game to get it out. Also, we have to start marketing activities in a significant amount of time ahead of release. What we want to do is give consumers as much certainty as possible. And again, we feel quite good about this date.”
Meanwhile, Zelnick told Variety that “Rockstar Games believes a limited amount of additional time is required” in order to release the “most extraordinary title anyone’s ever seen in the history of entertainment”.
The CEO ended the call with investors by thanking everyone at Rockstar who are “working diligently on the best entertainment product of all time”.
Grand Theft Auto V Sales Figures Updated
Take-Two Interactive have revealed that Grand Theft Auto V has now surpassed 220 million copies as expected. It hit 215m in May and had not progressed to 220m in August despite Grand Theft Auto V normally selling around 5 million copies every month for the past decade or so.
That means the total sales of the Grand Theft Auto series is now at nearly 460 million copies worldwide, up 5+ million in the past 3 months. This is inline with the average quarter.
As for GTA Online, Zelnick says support will continue to support GTA Online as it continues to perform better than they had predicted. In an interview with The Game Business, GTA+ is continuing to grow with 20% growth year-on-year. CEO Zelnick says they are very pleased with GTA Online’s overall continued success and believes this will “usher in a record breaking launch” for GTA VI.
Red Dead Redemption 2 hits 79m copies sold
Red Dead Redemption 2 sold an extra 2 million copies in the last 3 months. This means Red Dead Redemption 2 has now sold over 79 million copies worldwide, up from 77 million in August. In total, the Red Dead Series has now sold over 107 million copies, up from 104 million 3 months ago.
The game has been the most downloaded PS4 game for 8 months this year and that includes the past few months. The continued sales success does not come as much of a surprise given the PlayStation charts over the past few months. A new version for PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2 has been reported by multiple sources to be in development.
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