Rockstar Games has delayed Grand Theft Auto VI once again, with the highly anticipated game now set to release on November 19, 2026. The nearly six-month delay has been explained as more time for the development team to give GTA 6 “the level of polish you have come to expect and deserve.”
GTA 6 Delayed Six Months for “Polish”
While the social media post above wants players to think that GTA 6 has been delayed merely for a half a year’s worth of polish, it is worth noting the coming legal battle ahead for Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive.
Just last week, Rockstar was accused of union-busting after firing dozens of workers who were in a private Discord chat talking with union members to get the ball rolling on a unionization for the developer. Rockstar is saying the workers were fired for “distributing and discussing confidential information in a public forum.” Needless to say, we would be shocked if there were not a lawsuit coming in the future for the incident. Today, those fired employees reportedly protested outside of Take-Two’s London office, as organized by the IWGB union.
That isn’t to say that we think the union-busting situation is purely why Grand Theft Auto VI was delayed, but it definitely could have played a role, and maybe even extended the length a bit. With GTA 6 set to be one of, if not the largest, video game launches ever, we suspect that Take-Two did not want the game to be associated with the current situation and a presumed future legal battle.
For Rockstar to look at their game today, a little more than six months from release, and say we need a full year to finish this up could also hint that there have been a myriad of bugs and other various issues that require a lot of testing and fixing.
