Grand Theft Auto 6is one of the most eagerly awaited games of all time, yet Rockstar Games is yet to reveal anything about the title, other than the fact that it is, indeed, being actively worked on. There are more leaks and rumors aboutGTA 6than there are about almost any other game, which reflects how hungry the fanbase is for new information.
A gaming industry analyst, Michael Pachter, is now making bold claims aboutGrand Theft Auto 6’s scope and size, implying that Rockstar may be working on a continent-sized overworld map, one that players will be able to freely travel and explore. Pachter’s statement includes a number of other details, too, and predicates its argument on the idea that Rockstar has been working on the game since 2014.
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While there’s been much discussion aboutGrand Theft Auto 6’s playable map in particular, Pachter believes that Rockstar aims to deliver a mash-up of maps from all previous mainlineGTAgames with significant portions of the European continent. Pachter singles out London as a definitive hotspot of activity in the game, with players being able to smuggle drugs and arms across continents, for example. There’s not much to corroborate these claims on their own, but arecent Take-Two Interactive session swap patentdoes suggest incredibly large maps, for sure.
Pachter believes thatGrand Theft Auto 6is a 10-year production that Rockstar wants to use as a platform for up to 500 hours of gameplay by default. While some leakers have gone so far as to suggest thatGTA 6might get a gameplay trailerin 2022, few have made claims quite as concrete as those that Pachter has recently been making. Suffice it to say that everything the analyst says should be taken with a pinch of salt at this point in time.
Rockstar Games did confirm thatGTA 6is currently in active developmentearlier this year, though sources generally agree that the production has been taking place since the late 2010s. Pachter, for one, believes that Rockstar started working onGrand Theft Auto 6even earlier still, in 2014, and that the game would inevitably be coming out sometime in 2024.
Even though the excitement about the nextGTAgame from Rockstar is as palpable as it’s ever been, leakers warn thatfans shouldn’t expect news aboutGTA 6anytime soon. This information tracks with Pachter’s claims, too, as Rockstar wouldn’t want to officially announceGrand Theft Auto 6years before its actual release.
