>>28095 (OP)based on the hype they probably realized that if they don't deliver people will be pissed and it will be considered the first substandard product they've released in over a decade. if you have any social media like instagram you can see normies going rabid, and frothing at the mouth over the game. it's like if normies expected Todd Howard to release something on par with a super modded modlist, and you got pre-patch vanilla Skyrim. Rockstar inevitably set themselves up for failure, and ended up shooting themselves in the foot by not releasing it a year or two after RDR2. based on the leaks that were revealed GTA6 looks like RDR2 but modern day. that's not going to go over well since RDR2 is now 6 years old, and people are going to expect it to be leagues ahead of that game due to the time difference. Don't expect it to release next year, or the year after that. I am more inclined to believe we'll get a 2027-2028 release.