GTA 6 was certainly not going to be at The Sport Awards, nonetheless it is somewhat stunning that we have now not seen one different trailer however
The rumors that Grand Theft Auto 6 and Half-Life 3 had been going to be at The Sport Awards had been clearly bogus (for causes I’ll elaborate on beneath), nonetheless I admit that the extraordinary ‘I heard this from commerce sources’ tone of the social media posts briefly had me doubting my certainty.
Actually, neither recreation was on the event. As far as everyone knows, Half-Life 3 doesn’t exist, and even when it did, Valve is manner additional vulnerable to announce it by putting up a weblog put up on a Friday afternoon. Rockstar is far more allergic to mainstream hype-building retailers like The Sport Awards, so the thought-about it bringing a trailer to Geoff Keighley’s current is solely comical.
Working instance: YouTube had been spherical for a pair years by the purpose Rockstar revealed GTA 4 in 2007, and after so many horrible years of RealPlayer, there was now a relatively reliable method to stream motion pictures to tons of of hundreds of viewers on the net. And however Rockstar chosen to host the first GTA 4 trailer by itself custom-built site, which in reality immediately went catatonic when it was flooded with guests.
If Rockstar was reluctant even to let YouTube share in its glory, you probably can guess that it isn’t going at hand most likely probably the most anticipated trailer of the yr over to Keighley. In precise truth, the first GTA 6 trailer appeared to taunt the awards: Rockstar posted it on December 4, three days sooner than the 2023 Sport Awards, which made it very clear that it might need used the awards as a platform, nonetheless chosen to not.
So it is not weird that GTA 6 wasn’t at The Sport Awards, nonetheless it is barely weird that there’s been no GTA 6 trailer the least bit this yr. One new trailer per yr is the on a regular basis cadence, and GTA 6 is supposed to launch on consoles inside the latter half of 2025, so the promoting machine ought to really be spinning up about now.
It’s attainable that Rockstar had deliberate to place up a trailer this yr—probably correct sooner than The Sport Awards, like ultimate time—nonetheless delayed it for some behind-the-scenes goal. It feels vulnerable to me that we’ll see GTA 6 as soon as extra in January or February.
The bigger question is whether or not or not GTA 6 will actually launch in 2025. Delaying major video video games by months at a time has grow to be so commonplace that it’s anticipated. Ubisoft merely delayed Assassin’s Creed Shadows from this yr to February, and Bethesda had initially consider to launch Starfield in 2022 nonetheless didn’t get it out until September 2023. (It even had a superb novelty date picked out initially, 11/11/22, which was 11 years after Skyrim’s launch.)
Delay or no delay, we nonetheless have no idea when GTA 6 will come to PC. Rockstar has solely launched console releases as of now, and our expectation is that it’ll keep a console distinctive until Rockstar is ready to put out an upgraded explicit model. It’s annoying and old skool, nonetheless all we’ll do is harangue them about it: Rockstar does what Rockstar must do. It could possibly be gaming’s most appropriately-named studio.
