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Grand Theft Auto 6 launches next week as a purely single-player game, and Rockstar Games still hasn’t officially announced an online mode, let alone a release date for one. Rockstar is famously tight-lipped about multiplayer, and back in August, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier said the studio wasn’t planning to talk about what the new GTA Online will look like any time soon.
“A year later with multiplayer”
A new Bloomberg Originals video, titled “Why GTA 6 Took 13 Years and $1 Billion to Make”, may have given us a better idea. The documentary features Schreier and other Bloomberg reporters and mostly recaps his October deep dive into the game’s development. But just before the ten-minute mark, the narrator says the game shipping in 2026 isn’t its final form and that “the real long-term engine arrives a year later with multiplayer.”
It lines up with earlier reports
On its own, a line from a narrator’s script would be easy to dismiss as an editorial slip. But it matches what Schreier wrote in his October feature, where he said the online component is expected to be released in 2027. Twitch CEO Dan Clancy also told Bloomberg in September that he expected an even bigger viewership spike the following year, once Rockstar launches multiplayer.
That would be a much longer wait than usual. GTA Online followed GTA 5 by just two weeks in 2013, and Red Dead Online arrived about a month after Red Dead Redemption 2. Given that today’s GTA Online reportedly brings in around half a billion dollars a year, though, it makes sense that Rockstar wouldn’t rush its replacement.
Still unconfirmed
Rockstar and Take-Two Interactive haven’t confirmed any of this, so treat the timing as a strong indication rather than a date. GTA 6 launches on 19 November on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
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