GTA 6 in danger of being delayed to September 2026 claims insider

Rockstar’s highly-anticipated GTA 6 might be hit with another delay, as an insider claims to know how much it will cost.

Ever since Rockstar pushed back GTA 6 from autumn 2025 to May 26 next year, fans have been dreading the possibility of another delay.

It wouldn’t be out of the norm for Rockstar. The studio is known for delaying its games and while it has rarely done so twice for one title, it did for Red Dead Redemption 2. The western epic was originally slated for 2017, but it was delayed twice before it finally came out on October 26, 2018.

A series of job listings earlier this year suggested things were on track for GTA 6, but now an insider has claimed there are ‘internal talks’ within Rockstar about another delay.

In a post on X, insider Millie A, who has a mixed reputation but is known for accurate PlayStation-related leaks, claimed GTA 6 is ‘planned’ for May next year, ‘but internal talks suggest a possible slip to Sep[tember]’.

GTA 5 originally launched in September 2013, and considering how successful that was, it perhaps makes sense that Rockstar would consider repeating the same rollout for GTA 6.

There have been reports of behind the scenes trouble too. According to a GTA leaker called GameRoll, who previously revealed the last names of GTA 6’s protagonists Jason Duvall and Lucia Caminos, the closing portion of the campaign is undergoing some major changes.

In screenshots from Discord, GameRoll claimed GTA 6’s story would consist of five chapters, in a similar structure to Red Dead Redemption 2, which had six main chapters and two epilogues.

However, according to the leaker, the final chapter is in ‘development hell’, with all the shots from Trailer 2 being from chapters 1-3. They further claim chapter 4 and 5 ‘still aren’t finished’ and that ‘a huge chunk’ of chapter 5 has been cut, so it’s being reworked entirely.

GameRoll later said this was from ‘not a direct source’ but a ‘friend of a Rockstar developer’ – the same person who gave him the information on Jason and Lucia’s names. ‘Some stuff here may be false, misinterpreted, or complete BS,’ they wrote on X. ‘I trust the source, but I have no way to prove any of it.’

As his post outlines, it’s worth taking all of this with a pinch of salt, especially as trailers usually lean on earlier portions of the game, but a delay certainly isn’t out of the question.

Elsewhere, Millie A has claimed the standard edition of GTA 6 will be priced £69.99, but deluxe and premium editions will come in at £89.99 and £109.99, respectively. The former will apparently come with early GTA Online access, while the latter will offer ‘first GTA Online access’ – presumably some time after launch.

While not entirely unbelievable, it would be surprising if GTA 6 doesn’t surpass £69.99 for the standard edition – especially in a world where Mario Kart World costs £74.99.

Beyond GTA 6, Rockstar is apparently gearing up to release a Switch 2 port of Red Dead Redemption 2, along with a GTA 4 remaster.

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