GTA 6 Delay Rumours Have Been Shot Down By Reporter Who Claims Previous Statements Were Misconstrued

Bloomberg gaming reporter Jason Schreier sent gamers into red alert yesterday after sharing that while he wouldn’t be surprised if GTA 6 was released this year, he had heard the game was not yet “content complete”, fuelling speculation that another delay could happen. 

To say expectations for GTA 6 are high would be an understatement. According to developers Rockstar Games, the company is expecting it to be “the largest game launch in history“.

However, with such high anticipation comes immense expectations – something Rockstar and its parent company, Take-Two Interactive, are aware of. Since the game was first announced, the pair have pushed back GTA 6′s release date twice, with its expected release now set for November 19, 2026.

With these delays, some are doubting whether the developers will be able to stick to their current deadline.

Earlier this week, Bloomberg‘s Jason Schreier gave listeners of the Button Mash Podcast insight into some of the information he had heard in its most recent episode. In the podcast, Schreier admitted he wouldn’t be surprised if GTA 6 launched on time in November, comparing the game’s delay trajectory to the developer’s previous title, Red Dead Redemption 2.

“If you look at the history there, they announced it for fall 2017, then it slipped to spring 2018, and then it slipped again to fall 2018, and then it landed October of that year,” he said. “So I wouldn’t be super shocked if that is what happens again this time around.” If it does, that would mean that it actually hits its current release target and is not delayed again.

In saying that, Schreier would also reveal that he had heard that the game was not yet “content complete” and the developers were still finalising missions.

“The last I heard, it was still not content complete,” Schreier said. “That is to say people were still finishing things up, still finalising levels, and missions, and seeing what is going to make it into the game.” He added that he doesn’t “think anyone at Rockstar can tell you, with 100% certainty, that they will make it out in November.”

Schreier’s comments would go viral, with several outlets picking up the scoop and interpreting his quote to fuel anxiety that another delay is more likely than he had speculated.

This is a complete misunderstanding of what I said, which is that I wouldn't be shocked if GTA6 *does* come out this fall, following the same delay pattern as RDR2. Of course another delay is possible. It's a video game. But this blog post is very misleading (just reach out to me – it's not hard!)

— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier.bsky.social) 2026-01-08T14:28:05.843Z

While the reveal things may not yet be content complete, Schreier himself would go on to note that the game reveal, marketing, and launch plans of other games are being arranged around GTA 6‘s current November 19, 2026, release date.

“PlayStation is the main platform for the game, its kind of like a PlayStation Exclusive,” Schrier would say. “I suspect that Sony is planning its entire calendar around GTA. They will not release anything within the blast zone.”

While another delay for the game would be devastating on a consumer level, it’d be even more frustrating for publishers and studios who have all planned their release dates around GTA 6 in the hopes of avoiding going up against its release. Another delay would only cause even more scrambling for the industry in the hopes of quickly filling out that November period.

Regardless, until the game is out and installed on your hardware of choice, I’d recommend not getting too attached to any release date just to be safe.