'GTA 6' Release Date, Latest News: 2019 Announcement Considered Possible But Launch Won't Happen Until 2022

Video game company Rockstar Games has yet to officially announce the development of “GTA 6.” But it is being speculated that the first teaser for the anticipated sequel could be released this year.

Unlike in the movie and TV show industry, video game makers have the luxury to release brief teasers even though the title will not be released in the next several years. So the speculations that a “GTA 6” teaser could drop in 2019 is somehow possible even though its launch is eyed in the next three years, at least.

If Rockstar Games announces “GTA 6” this year, reports suggest that it will not happen anytime earlier than E3 2019. The trade show annually occurs in June. Nothing changes in terms of the speculated release date for “GTA 6.” Many fans are leaning towards the chance that the game’s earliest possible launch could be as late as 2022.

Gaming industry analyst Michael Pachter was one of the first persons to estimate a 2022 release date for “GTA 6.” “I say it comes out after 2022. Remember, ‘Red Dead Redemption 2’ comes out eight years after the first one- so the idea that GTA 6 comes out before 2021 seems ridiculous,” Pachter previously told GamingBolt.

Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser previously mentioned “GTA 6” in an interview with the British GQ. But it was only to comment they are quite relieved the game is not coming out soon. “Both intense liberal progression and intense conservatism are both very militant, and very angry. It is scary but it’s also strange, and yet both of them seem occasionally to veer towards the absurd. It’s hard to satirize for those reasons,” Houser explained.

Meanwhile, the anticipation for “GTA 6” is also expected to be felt in terms of investments and stock prices. Midwest Roadside Safety Facility business assistant Joseph Heglin estimates (via Seeking Alpha) that Rockstar Games’ parent company Take-Two Interactive would benefit an up to “80% upside over the next 2 years” now that the game is expected to be in the works.