Grand Theft Auto 6 continues to be on observe for a console launch within the fall of this 12 months, and a PC model of the sport continues to be firmly within the realm of wishful considering. In order you’ll be able to think about, there was a collective gasp of hope when Corsair Gaming vice chairman of finance and investor relationship Ronald van Ween talked about a not-too-distant PC launch in the course of the firm’s latest quarterly monetary name. After which the air went fully out of it as a result of, after all, Corsair instantly walked all of it again.
“GTA 6 might be the one everyone seems to be speaking about,” van Ween mentioned in response to a query concerning the affect of upcoming video games on {hardware} gross sales. “And we’ll get a glimpse of that, I believe, afterward within the 12 months for console. My understanding now, it may come out within the fall for console, after which early ’26 for PC.”
That is fairly definitive, and plausible too, if maybe slightly optimistic. Rockstar has a protracted historical past of releasing its massive video games on PC nicely after the console variations drop, going all the best way again to Grand Theft Auto 3, and the shortest span between them—for GTA 3, Vice Metropolis, and GTA 4—has been seven months. If GTA 6 makes its fall 2025 launch goal (and, Take-Two’s “regular as she goes” however, we’re not so positive about that) and matches the corporate’s quickest prior turnaround, the PC launch would land extra within the realm of April or Could—which I might contemplate extra of a mid-2026 window, actually.
Not that it issues all that terribly a lot, as a result of shortly after van Ween’s remark got here to public mild, Corsair shot all of it down, telling IGN that he was merely speculating, and that Corsair hasn’t been supplied any type of PC launch goal by both Take-Two or Rockstar.
Properly, it was enjoyable whereas it lasted. Should you’re of a conspiratorial bent, you would possibly suppose again to the time that Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav casually revealed throughout an buyers name that Mortal Kombat 12, which beforehand didn’t exist in any official sense, was on the best way; and given how that turned out to be true, you may additionally surprise if maybe Corsair’s takeback was not a lot as a result of van Ween was simply taking pictures from the hip, however as a result of somebody bought a not-too-happy e mail from Strauss Zelnick about it. I would definitely not counsel that is the case—if Corsair says it isn’t so, then it isn’t so. I am simply, you understand, speculating.
