Take-Two has printed its monetary outcomes for the second quarter of fiscal 12 months 2025, and the home that Strauss constructed is doing very properly certainly: Though all of these beady shareholder eyes stay on one specific title to return. The outcomes present that Take-Two is on target to hit the highest finish of its personal expectations, with $1.47 billion in web bookings over this quarter and the goal remaining $5.55 to $5.65 billion for the 12 months total. But nevermind that—the place’s Grand Theft Auto 6?
These outcomes have been broadly “pushed by the continued success of the Grand Theft Auto and Borderlands franchises,” mentioned chairman and CEO Strauss Zelnick on an investor name following the outcomes. “We have one of many strongest portfolios of owned mental property in our trade. With many thrilling new titles coming in Fiscal 2026—together with Grand Theft Auto 6 within the fall, Borderlands 4 and Mafia: The Old Country—we anticipate to create long-term worth for our shareholders.”
The outcomes are accompanied by an inventory of 2K’s upcoming titles, which incorporates Grand Theft Auto 6 listed for “fall of calendar 2025” however sadly solely on PS5 and Xbox Series S/X. Other titles within the checklist comparable to Civilization 7, Borderlands 4, Mafia: The Old Country, and Judas are down for PC launch alongside that. So yeah: Us PC players could be 2026 for GTA 6, within the best-case situation.
There was one later apart that means issues will usually enhance with Take-Two’s titles and simultaneous PC releases, when Zelnick was speaking in regards to the completely different goal platforms within the console market. Mentioning PC because the “open platform” Zelnick went on to say “I do suppose PC can be increasingly more part of [our] enterprise going ahead.”
Zelnick does a little bit verbal dance on all of those outcomes calls, as hard-nosed monetary wonks drill-down into the efficiency of particular person video games and, as at all times, attempt to get extra details about Golden Goose Theft Auto. Mostly these questions are politely stonewalled, although they do deliver out some attention-grabbing asides about GTA usually.
“Sales of Grand Theft Auto 5 outperformed our expectations and up to now the title has bought over 205 million items worldwide,” says Zelnick. “Grand Theft Auto Online has additionally exceeded our plans, pushed by sustained engagement […] momentum additionally continued inside GTA+ as Rockstar grew its membership by 35% during the last 12 months.”
Zelnick additionally talked about Red Dead Redemption 2’s gross sales, which have seen it constantly chart since launch, and says the sport has now bought over 67 million items up to now.
The fits have been much less self-congratulatory in regards to the Borderlands movie, which is among the 12 months’s greatest flops and was roundly panned by shoppers and critics alike. Asked by one shareholder to element the monetary contribution right here throughout the wider Borderlands franchise, Zelnick immediately says “we do not really want to interrupt out the contribution of the movie.”
Read between the traces although, they usually’re not blissful. “Even although the movie was disappointing, it truly benefited our catalogue gross sales so that may be a signal that making a film or a TV present can drive gross sales and that is factor,” says Zelnick.
“We’re actually selective, as a result of we would like that the whole lot that comes out with our manufacturers in it’s actually actually profitable. We cannot assure that, particularly when it is out of our fingers, so we’ve licensed different titles, will proceed selectively to take action, however emphasis on the phrase ‘selectively.'”
Ever since Rockstar launched the primary trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6, courting the title for 2025, there was hypothesis over whether or not the sport will make that date. It’s not simply that there is a historical past of delays to GTA titles, however that Rockstar is “searching for perfection” with this title and, as one former lead dev put it, there’s actually “no competitors” to fret about. Maybe this time subsequent 12 months you will be taking part in GTA 6, on console at the least. Mr. Zelnick and all of his shareholders definitely hope so.
