GTA VI: Announcement this week, trailer in December!

When Rockstar Studios sneezes, almost the entire video game industry catches a cold. This shows the importance of this development studio at the head of the Grand Theft Auto franchise, GTA for short.

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After months of rumors and leaks after a hack, Rockstar is gearing up to officially announce its highly anticipated GTA VI this week! The news was reported by journalist Jason Schreier, a former anchor of the Kotaku site who went to write under the auspices of Bloomberg.

Author of many scoops and in-depth investigations of the video game industry, he is known as a reliable source. With an incredibly cool kiss effect, it also reveals that the studio is expected to reveal the game’s first trailer in December.

An authentic cultural phenomenon, we know that the Grand Theft Auto license regularly breaks the ceiling in terms of records. In 2018, five years after its release, GTA V became the most profitable cultural product of all time, thanks to 90 million copies, it earned more than 6 billion dollars, destroying all competition in terms of profits, including cinema. on the side.

Last February, publisher Take Two Interactive, owner of Rockstar, announced that all games in the franchise had sold more than 395 million copies. GTA V alone sold over 175 million copies. Of course, ten years and more than three generations of consoles (not forgetting the PC), but still.

Western game Red Dead Redemption II, a sublime melancholic story, released in October 2018, sold more than 50 million copies.

Suffice it to say that GTA VI’s release, even if it’s still a long way off, is already heating up the competition, and not just in the video game industry. Nice memory of Iron Man being delayed so we wouldn’t be in direct competition with a certain GTA IV.