One of the highest selling videogames of all time, GTA 5 has now surpassed over a staggering 220 million copies sold as confirmed by Take Two Interactive’s CEO, Strauss Zelnick in a recent interview with The Game Business. Zelnick has confirmed that there will be even more content for GTA Online in the near future while also adding that the overall membership of GTA+ still continues to grow even to this day and actually has had an around 20% growth on a per year basis.
During the interview, Zelnick also spoke on the recent delay of GTA 6 which has now been pushed for a November 2026 release: “When we set a date, we really do believe in it,” besides adding “if a game requires more polish to be the best possible version of itself, then we will give that game more time.”
“It’s in the same fiscal year, it happens to be a great release window, and naturally we’re really supportive of Rockstar’s approach,” he stated.
However, the delays are actually putting more pressure on GTA 6 in many ways, cause unlike GTA 5, which had vastly improved gameplay mechanics compared to it’s predecessor GTA 4, we’ve seen absolutely nothing from the upcoming GTA 6 in terms of actual gameplay. So far, all we know is that it’ll have an exponentially more sprawling and immersive open world than what we’ve seen from every other game thus far but great games are ultimately remembered for having great gameplay, above all else.
GTA 5 had managed to refine and overhaul all the gameplay elements from it’s previous entry and if GTA 6 can’t do that on a similar level, which is highly unlikely in all probability, all it’s got going for at the moment is it’s grand and lifelike world (at least based on what we’ve seen from the trailers and images so far) which although fascinating on every level, may not going to be enough for it to surpass the overall success of GTA 5 in the long run.
So even though GTA 6 is indeed destined to break a lot of sales records upon release, surpassing GTA 5 in terms of total sales is still a bit of a tall order.
