Take-Two CEO Denies Rumors That GTA 6 Will Be Digital-only at Launch

The CEO of Take-Two Interactive has denied ongoing rumors that Grand Theft Auto 6 volition beryllium a digital-only merchandise upon its archetypal launch.

This comes from Variety, which spoke to CEO Strauss Zelnick contiguous up of the company's Q3 2026 net release. When asked if subsidiary Rockstar would hold the merchandise of carnal copies of GTA 6 until 2027 to debar leaks, helium replied, "That's not the plan."

Rumors of specified a carnal hold emerged precocious past month, erstwhile an alleged insider manufacture root shared that Take-Two had nary plans for a carnal variation of the crippled astatine merchandise owed to concerns astir carnal copies falling into hands aboriginal and leaking online.

Notably, the study suggests that carnal copies could beryllium delayed into 2027, oregon delayed conscionable a fewer weeks, which would marque Zelnick's reply somewhat unclear. IGN reached retired to Take-Two to get much clarity connected what his connection meant, and was informed that Zelnick's connection was denying immoderate hold program astatine all, not conscionable a determination to 2027 specifically.

GTA 6 is inactive acceptable for merchandise connected November 18, 2026, a day that Zelnick reaffirmed confidently to america today, alongside plans for Rockstar to rotation up its selling instrumentality this summer. The crippled has already suffered from aggregate leaks, some of improvement footage and of its archetypal trailer, alongside a fig of AI-generated fake leaks. We besides spoke to Zelnick contiguous astir Google Genie up of the company's Q3 net report, successful which Take-Two announced it had brought successful nett bookings of $1.76 cardinal for the quarter, and that it's raising its expectations for the twelvemonth to person nett bookings betwixt $6.65 cardinal to $6.7 billion.

Rebekah Valentine is simply a elder newsman for IGN. Got a communicative tip? Send it to [email protected].