Whereas PC {hardware} and peripheral maker Corsair has beforehand indicated that Grand Theft Auto 6 may come to PC in early 2026, the corporate has now revealed that this was hypothesis on its half. Chatting with IGN, the corporate has confirmed that it doesn’t have particulars concerning the PC launch of GTA 6, and has not gotten any particulars about it from both developer Rockstar Video games or writer Take-Two Interactive.
Hypothesis arose when Corsair Gaming’s finance VP Ronald van Veen spoke about income projections for the subsequent yr throughout its current earnings report. Throughout the report, van Veen speculated that, whereas GTA 6 might be coming to PS5 and Xbox Collection X/S in Fall 2025, the PC launch may solely be barely later, in early 2026.
“Yeah, GTA 6 might be the one everyone seems to be speaking about,” mentioned van Veen through the earnings name. “And we’ll get a glimpse of that, I feel, in a while within the yr for console. My understanding now it’s going to return out within the fall for console, after which early 2026 for PC.”
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick himself has been fairly cagey concerning the PC launch of GTA 6. When requested about it by IGN beforehand, he responded that PC is a vital platform for the writer, pointing to the current launch of Civilization 7. He does point out that Rockstar Video games has historically launched its titles on consoles earlier than then releasing them on PC.
“So with Civ 7 it’s obtainable on console and PC and Change instantly,” mentioned Zelnick. “With regard to others in our lineup, we don’t at all times go throughout all platforms concurrently. Traditionally, Rockstar has began with some platforms after which traditionally moved to different platforms.”
Zelnick has additionally acknowledged that he believes that GTA 6 will trigger “a significant uptick” in console {hardware} gross sales when it lastly comes out. This comes within the wake of declining console {hardware} gross sales. Zelnick, nonetheless, believes the launch of GTA 6 to be a large enough occasion that it’s going to have an effect on console gross sales.
“When you’ve gotten an enormous title available in the market and we have now lots of them coming, traditionally that has bought consoles,” Zelnick mentioned.
“And I feel that can occur this yr. I don’t assume tariffs are going to be our pal, however I feel there might be a significant uptick in console gross sales in calendar 25 due to the discharge schedule, not simply coming from us, however coming from others. So I’m not involved about that [console sales falling]. I feel the development that you just’d need to concentrate on is that this growing share of the market that’s mirrored in PC.”
Whereas the looming launch of Grand Theft Auto 6 may additionally have induced some concern for followers of GTA On-line, Zelnick has acknowledged that, so long as there’s a playerbase for it, the corporate will proceed to help even its older titles. He used NBA 2K On-line and its sequel – China-exclusive multiplayer titles – as examples of Take-Two Interactive supporting its older titles.
