So another day, another GTA6 It was postponed because the highly anticipated game is now scheduled for release on November 19, 2026, although many of us are hoping that date will be pushed back again. After all, it is better to prepare for disappointments and not deceive yourself. At this rate I don’t think GTA 6 will come out until the game is installed on my hard drive.
But this new postponement was a blow to my already gloomy prospects. I’m getting older and in my sickest moments I’m not so old anymore. HE old man), I’m afraid to die before I play the next one RGT. At this rate, I fear our sun will expand and engulf the earth, followed by a possible heat death in the universe, forcing Take-Two to further delay the game.
I am old enough to remember the exciting days when we met. Three gta games, GTA III, GTA Vice City, AND GTA San Andres in just under four years. These days, it seems like entire civilizations rise and fall between episodes.
If I look a little dark, maybe even a little dramaticso please indulge me. As you might have guessed from my reference to hard drives, I’m primarily a PC gamer these days, so even Yes GTA 6 will be released on consoles in November. Those waiting for the PC version (which, let’s face it, will be the best) will be waiting a long time.
I could wait until 2027 for this game, which means it’s been 30 years since I first played the GTA series, which was originally released on PC before consoles.
I can’t see the forest for the trees anymore.
Seriously, I understand the reason for the game’s delay. Take two CEOs of Strauss Zelnick as an example. spoke with IGN say, “If our competitors enter the market before something is ready, bad things happen.”
Apparently, the folks at Take-Two, the publisher of the GTA series, have seen extremely difficult game releases that… No Man’s Sky, Mindseye, AND precipitation76which was predicted at the time of their release, as they seemed to have been released before they were ready.
The most famous example of this, and one that certainly didn’t go unnoticed by anyone at Take-Two or Rockstar, was the infamous release of Cyberpunk 2077.
A graphically challenging open-world role-playing game inspired by the famous role-playing game. Wizard 3The hype before the launch was enormous. Then, after some delay, Cyberpunk 2077 It seemed forced to start in a very complicated and unfinished state. The backlash was huge and almost single-handedly ruined developer CD Projekt Red’s reputation.
It makes perfect sense that the team behind GTA 6 doesn’t want something like this to happen, and it would certainly make sense to delay the game again to prevent this from happening. But since GTA 6 is further delayed (it’s been twelve years since the release of GTA 5), I’m afraid that game won’t be next. Cyberpunk 2077… but next Duke Nukem forever.
Current record for longest development time for a video game? 14 years and 43 days. Officially announced on April 28, 1997 by developer 3D Realms, FPS Duke Nukem Forever was finally released on June 10, 2011. https://t.co/8XBZGM3i98November 6, 2025
Duke Nukem forever was announced in 1997 and followed the commercial and critical success of Duke Nukem 3D. After years of delays, the game was finally released in 2011, 14 years after it was first announced. Was it worth the wait? Unfortunately not, it just wasn’t a good match.
I don’t believe that at all GTA6 It’s going to be a bad game, but as the delays pile up I fear it will be similar. Duke Nukem forever Other.
First of all, the developers of 3D Realms have made many promises about the game during its many years of development. And with every year that goes by without a release, the speculation and hype increases (at least initially). It has become almost mythical, regardless of its condition or quality. Duke Nukem forever In the end, it will never meet most people’s expectations.
Was it worth the wait? Unfortunately not, it just wasn’t a good match.
I see the same thing happening GTA6. The longer we have to wait, the wilder the speculation gets, especially since Rockstar isn’t revealing much information. So people expect the map to be huge and maybe an entire state made up of several large cities, all with buildings you can walk into.
Other people develop ambitious plot theories, and while I believe that GTA 6 will have a great map and an exciting plot, despite the long development time and the huge budget at the disposal of the team, it will simply not be able to meet the expectations of some people, which will inevitably lead to disappointment. The longer the delays, the higher the expectations.
it becomes a joke
There is yet another danger. While Duke Nukem forever The protracted development initially created hype and excitement, but eventually lasted so long that it became an ongoing joke. Even now, we often talk about it (as I do) when a game suffers a major delay.
If players (and critics) stop liking your game and start making jokes about it, that’s not a good sign.
Another big problem with long development times is this Duke Nukem forever He continued with obscene and unPC humor of Duke Nukem 3DWhat was that? Terrible of its time. In the more enlightened 21st century, this humor disappeared completely.
During this time, these years, while we were waiting for this Duke Nukem Forever, In particular, many revolutionary games have been released. half-life AND halochanging our expectations of first-person shooter (FPS) games. When Duke Nukem forever When we finally arrived, not only was the humor dated, but so was the gameplay.
The longer GTA 6 is delayed, the more work will need to be done to ensure the story and humor remain relevant.
This is a real threat to GTA 6. The series has always embraced risque humor, but some of the things that made us laugh in 2013’s GTA 5 aren’t so funny anymore. The series also prides itself on satirizing the world, particularly the United States, but that world has changed considerably since then. In addition GTA6 The longer the work goes on, the more work will be needed to keep the story and humor relevant.
Take-Two and Rockstar should also pay attention to the game. Since the introduction of GTA5It inspired several open-world rivals, and while some of them were pale imitations, others continued to innovate the genre, including Rockstar itself. Red Dead Redemption 2. The more we get GTA5The more we post, the less impressed we are GTA6 It sticks too closely to the gameplay of its predecessor.
I’ve been around long enough to see many games get stuck in development hell and then escape. DaikatanaAnother well-known example, but one that turned out to be a huge disappointment.
Take-Two’s fear is that GTA 6 is next Cyberpunk 2077 it may ultimately lead to an even worse fate. Finally, Cyberpunk 2077 finally found redemption after CD Projekt Red worked hard to fix the launch bug Duke Nukem forever In the end they both became jokes. AND an uplifting story.