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GTA V Announcement Coming Before E3?

With Take-Two's fiscal announcement yesterday, the publisher announced that Rockstar's GTA IV had surpassed 15 million copies sold around the globe. Grand Theft Auto fans enjoyed their episodic content, but now they're chomping at the bit for the next full GTA title. While Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick said that there's no need to annualize the GTA franchise, you can bet that Rockstar's hard at work on GTA V right now. 

Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey commented that "there is building suspension for a pre-E3 GTA V announcement, although we expect nothing from Rockstar at this year’s official E3 event." GTA is one of those franchises that's so huge that Rockstar doesn't even need to do it at E3; Rockstar and Take-Two could hold their own event and announce the title in the days leading right up to E3, when many publishers often do hold separate press events.

Hickey continued, "We think the next iteration of GTA for console can significantly outsell its predecessor, reflecting on the sales acceleration of the prior cycle GTA console iterations, an accelerating core gamer installed base (with an emphasis on PS3 installed expansion where GTA has historically dominated relatively), and the most talented / motivated development team in the world, in our view."

Take-Two has yet to provide an update on the next iteration of GTA, and while we think it's doubtful that GTA V will ship in 2010, we think that an early 2011 release is entirely possible.  

43 Comments

Jack Haas
6 months ago

An awful lot of people stayed with San Andreas because they just wouldn't accept a smaller land mass. Just take a look at modding sites and you'll see that more cars are still being made for SA than IV. The Rockstar guys know what they have to do to equal SA sales: add a countryside.

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6 months ago

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6 months ago

Who needs GTA when you have APB coming out in three months. A mmorpg that bring a vast persistent city to you PC.

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6 months ago

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LCstuntman
6 months ago

Jack Haas, who wants a bunch of empty land? They just put that in there to make SA look bigger. Not to mention, Liberty City = New York. Not the countryside.

indysurfn
6 months ago

A lot of sales and content have a lot to do with Industry sales, economy, and install base of gaming PC's that can handle games, and consoles. Combining the sale of PS3, and XBox360 do not equal half the install base of PS2 still!

Gary Evans
6 months ago

what they need to do is stop it being some serious crapfest and go back to the more fun aspect from vice city etc, i despise gta4 because of this

xaml
6 months ago

You need to read the fine print in your own articles, quote: "There's a balance between how long it takes to develop such an incredible title... and how long you wait for the [customer's] appetite to be both satisfied and whetted for the next title. That's something I think the company has done well."

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6 months ago

hey Rockstar, My Favorite GTA of all time has to be Vice city, I think for part 5 you guys should revamp the miami like setting making it current and relevant to today's culture, and bring back an aged and mature tommy vercetti, it works for MAX Payne 3, and the music should have the same essence as the original vice city, add catchy pop songs to reflect what was and what is

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Santò Parker
5 months ago

A next generation San Andreas is definitely where it's at. Heck, there are enough land marks and land mass in Los Angeles ALONE to easily cover an entire game. Rockstar North has not let us down yet. A quality game takes time. I guarantee you i'll be at the midnight release for this!

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4 months ago

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Asmir Puzic
4 months ago

Rockstar or who ever stands for the idéas/developments on the next-comming GTA, should think about what makes the game good.

1. The story
2. The landscape. NOT a single town/small area but like in San Andreas, where there is multiple islands with longer distance between them.
and 3. THE OPTIONS... Why did they remove some vehicle options? Like fx BMX, Airplane ect... I understand that GTA IV is in NYC/Manhattan but come on. If you build an airport, then you MUST have some flyable planes.. That was the 2nd most disappointing thing. The 1st was that the playable area/map was soo small...

Come on Rockstar! We know that you can do better than that! If only you had the GTA IV materials/scripts when you was developing San Andreas, it would be the best game ever...

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3 months ago

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