Grand Theft Auto 6 Delayed Again Until November 2026 (kotaku.com) 72
Rockstar Games has announced that Grand Theft Auto VI won't launch in May of next year as planned. Kotaku: The highly anticipated sequel is now set to arrive in November 2026. On Thursday, Rockstar announced on social media that the long-awaited next entry in its open-world blockbuster franchise would need a bit more time, delaying the game an additional six months from May to November 19, 2026. Rockstar said "these extra months will allow us to finish the game with the level of polish you have come to expect and deserve."
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I wish this game were available for AppleTV.
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Staring George Clooney and Tom Hanks?
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Are they in GTA VI?
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I know this is just anecdotal, but I watched a lot of The Three Stooges when I was a kid. I never once gouged anyone's eyes out, threw a pie in anyone's face, nor instructed anyone to remind me to murder them later, despite the fact that I was surrounded by idiots.
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That is because humans are smart enough to recognise fiction when they see it, whereas in my house it is constant chaos with a mouse living in my skirting board constantly hitting the cat with a frying pan and the cat retaliating with shotguns and dynamite.
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False (I think) - Can you remember when the baby from Dinosaurs was responsible for causing a kid to wack someone in the head with a frying pan in real life? It was in the news back in the 90s... Most people can tease out fiction, but half of us have IQ's below 100 and can't.
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And WWF wrestling as well. My cousins would destroy each other playing WWF. Where'd they get THAT idea? Oh right... TV.
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You never had any brothers or cousins doing double suplexes to each other after watching WWF? Your anecdotal evidence is discounted by mine. And since mine is real I think I have a case.
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You never had any brothers or cousins doing double suplexes to each other after watching WWF? Your anecdotal evidence is discounted by mine. And since mine is real I think I have a case.
1. Wresting was on TV long before video games. 2. Brothers and cousins were hitting each other slingshots and rocks long before TV was invented. 3. Your anecdotal evidence does not "discount" everyone else. It only reflects your ego that you think that it does.
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I watched a lot of The Three Stooges when I was a kid. I never once... threw a pie in anyone's face,
I really wanted to do this one, though.
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That glamorizing this sort of game is directly responsible for the recent phenomenon of crime in US cities? Street take overs, rampant looting during peaceful protests and even sports team wins(or losses), shoplifting, carjacking, etc?
No. As someone who has killed many a demon with a chainsaw starting 30 years ago as a youth, I have yet to buy a chainsaw in my adult age for any reason or even to hunt down demons. Also I have not captured any magical creatures with an orb and made them fight other magical creatures. As an adult that has had to fix my own plumbing, I find that skill does not require hitting boxes marked with "?" and strangely my pipes are not inhabited by turtles. Games glamorizing violence ignores the fact that before tha
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I bet a lot of kids idolize Franklin. He's the 'every man' protagonist as far as I can tell.
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no.
Re:Does anyone else worry... (Score:4, Informative)
FBI Crime Stats - Trending down since the '90s.
https://www.brennancenter.org/... [brennancenter.org]
Don't confuse 24/7 reporting with actual crime.
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Even if the past few years have seen under reporting it doesn't explain decades of reduction.
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I agree, in the 2000's cities like New York were doing great. Michael Bloomberg was amazing. Arnold Schwarzenegger was awesome for California. Massachusetts also had republican governors during that time as well. Everything was pretty great, all around. TODAY though? CA cities are dumps, the 'punching game' is a thing in NY, and MA has the most expensive everything... Things can regress when stats stop being reported...
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Crime stats look great when big cities don't report them. https://www.npr.org/2022/10/05... [npr.org]
It is a fact, undeniable, that cities are inundated with crime. Also a fact that democrat cities don't report it.
I was curious about your point. You've provided an interview where the alarming headline is basically "crime isn't being reported". But I read it and discovered that's not what happened. The interview actually contained "in 2021, a bunch of cities didn't report crime statistics to the FBI".
Those three words change so much.
Just for fun I looked up crime statistics for NYC because they're the biggest one the interview picks on. Now... maybe NYC didn't release the 2021 stats until today. Maybe what yo
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Go ahead. Pick a category.
Yeah but NYC crime stats don't cover the number of people who stole a cop car just to run over a a grandma before going for some hot coffee and then killing a hooker, so your evidence is meaningless! /s
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That glamorizing this sort of game is directly responsible for the recent phenomenon of crime in US cities?
No.
People keep trying to prove a link between any type of video games and crime and failing.
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What pushes some demographics to participate in street take overs . . .
Maybe you should read the histories of 19th century real life Gangs of New York [wikipedia.org]
It's got to come from somewhere, rap music is a big suspect, but video games like GTA make it much more 'real'. I don't think it's coming from rampant reading of books...
The Bible has depicted violence for millenia. The Iliad by Homer. Books by depict violence since the 1700s. It appears that basis of your arguments is recency bias. [wikipedia.org]
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What pushes some demographics to participate in street take overs
What demographic? Poor and disadvantaged? You know events like these are held by white people where there's only white people, right?
twerking on police cars
You completely lost me right here, bro. OH THE BOOTYANITY TWERKING ON COP CARS
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That glamorizing this sort of game is directly responsible for the recent phenomenon of crime in US cities?
No
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D&D players usually role play as heroes... Rock and Roll, i don't think is as degenerate as your average rap music but I can see your point. And I DO think RAP is where this brand of degeneracy began back in the 90's.
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I think most people, even the young ones, can distinguish between make-believe play and real violence. Most of the games I remember playing during recess centered on gunfights and making up rules for the gunfights. This was well before school shootings began.
Play isn't the problem, it's hate, rage, and hopelessness.
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That glamorizing this sort of game is directly responsible for the recent phenomenon of crime in US cities? Street take overs, rampant looting during peaceful protests and even sports team wins(or losses), shoplifting, carjacking, etc?
I could get behind GTA3 back in the day, and even Red Dead Redemption, but I think the evidence must be SOMEWHERE that kids, sadly, glamorize this type of behavior and emulate it in their every day lives.
That you Jack Thompson ?
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That glamorizing this sort of game is directly responsible for the recent phenomenon of crime in US cities?
No, no one else worries about this bullshit.
and even Red Dead Redemption
So I take it you couldn't help but walk up to someone and shoot them in the face with a revolver? I mean in the absence of any actual studied evidence that video games cause violent crime I can only assume you have nothing but anecdotes. How many people have you shot in the face recently?
Which platform? (Score:2)
PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S are what show as platforms for this game.
If I were going to buy one so that I can play this game, which is the better choice? Which one is newer?
FWIW, it is unlikely that I would buy any other games for it anytime soon, other than something for my 9 year old, so I can give him the whole thing as a Christmas present. Are the old Baulder's Gate games available for these platforms, either in the old format or redesigned for these platforms?
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Out of the box, the Xbox Series X is slightly better hardware than the regular PS5. it's not really enough to matter, especially on a mutliplatform game, but since you asked...
That said, Sony offers the PS5 Pro, a higher spec version of the console that Microsoft does not offer an equivalent of. So if price is no object, the PS5 Pro is expected to be the best platform to play it on.
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Ok. PS5 Pro it is.
Thanks!
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Out of the box, the Xbox Series X is slightly better hardware than the regular PS5. it's not really enough to matter, especially on a mutliplatform game, but since you asked...
The problem for Microsoft this generation is their own policies have hampered games on the X. Microsoft requires any games developed for the X must have feature parity with games on the S. However, the S has weaker hardware than the PS5. In some cases like Baldur's Gate 3, the Xbox launch was delayed as they had development issues on the S that was only alleviated when Microsoft waived that specific requirement. Many other game developers simply optimized their games for the S instead of optimizing for bot
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Good to know! Thanks for posting.
So, I think I've convinced myself to go ahead and do this as a Christmas present. Kid will be pleased. Researching it:
PS5 Pro
Disc drive for it
GTA6
Baulder's Gate: Dark Alliance
We have a dual sense controller that we bought for the AppleTV, so that gives us a second one. And I've got a 98" 4K TV to connect this thing to.
It would be nice to connect it to our second TV instead of the main one, but that's not a 4K TV so I don't think I want to do that, as convenient as it would b
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PS5 if only for the incredible controller.
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Then I would have to buy a PC, which is not something I'm interest in. Among other things, that would add a lot of clutter in the TV room, which wouldn't be very nice.
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Obviously you do what you want, but you can have a computer with exactly the same amount of clutter as a PlayStation or Xbox, and it would be much more useful - much wider variety of games (including an extensive backlog, and emulation) to play for cheaper or free, no need to buy a whole new one and new controllers and etc. when GTA for the next generation of consoles eventually comes along, etc.
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Then I would have to buy a computer, monitor, keyboard, mouse and whatever else, and find a place to put all THAT stuff, none of which I have room for. I also don't want to have to keep up with maintaining another machine, so forth and so on. I just don't see any advantage to all of that vs just buying the thing that hooks up to the TV and playing games on it.
If I had to go through all that headache, I wouldn't bother with it at all.
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I have computers, just not a "PC", which generally refers to a Windows machine.....or possibly a Linux machine, I guess.
For my purpose here, I just want something I can easily hook up to my TV. It just needs to play a few games, nothing else.
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Well, motherfucker!!
I just realized his delay is until November 2026, not 2025.
I'll be dead by then ):
Fuckers!
Which will take longer to produce... (Score:3)
Grand Theft Auto 6, or Duke Nukem Forever? At this point, I'm wondering if Rockstar is trying to take the crown for the most delayed PC game of all time.
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DNF wasn't even finished even when it was taken over by another company.
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Grand Theft Auto 6, or Duke Nukem Forever? At this point, I'm wondering if Rockstar is trying to take the crown for the most delayed PC game of all time.
Dude it's barely been 9 years yet. They aren't even 2/3rds of the way to the record. Right now they're struggling to get above spot number 5.
Complete statement (Score:5, Insightful)
Rockstar said "these extra months will allow us to finish the game with the level of polish you have come to expect and deserve."
"...and to counteract our loss of productivity as we fire anyone who was trying to unionize."
A rename seems in order (Score:2)
"Grand Theft Auto Forever"
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Cyberpunk 2077 It! (Score:2)
Release it early, test in prod, patch at leisure.
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Early testing show that the cars were too easy to drive.
Put in stickshifts. With dog box transmissions.
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since this happens with every one of their releases, and for that matter with everyone's releases these days (at least everyone "too big to fail") this is p much just par for the course... they'll delay it a third time as well much closer to launch, but not likely to delay a fourth time. It's probably literally part of their marketing cycle at this point, they'd be fools not to include it because it's so predictable and reliable.
It's kinda just building hype the littledick way.
What did you expect? (Score:2)
When you fire a bunch of your employees to union bust (under the guise of "leaking" info) of course your product is going to be delayed.
Probably a good thing (Score:3)
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You're assuming they are doing this to sort out bugs rather than just dealing with the delay caused by their union busting tactics that involved firing a shitton of their staff recently.
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