Take-Two CEO Believes GTA 6 Will Help Sell Xbox Consoles In 2025

In light of new financial details from GTA owner Take-Two, we’ve been hearing a bit more about GTA 6 in recent days, including the company reaffirming the game’s Fall 2025 release window. On the back of these financials, IGN has been speaking to boss Strauss Zelnick, and he had some interesting things to say about console sales this year.

Zelnick believes that some big 2025 releases, including ones from his own company like GTA 6, will result in “a meaningful uptick in console sales in calendar 25”. The CEO adds “historically that [a big release] has sold consoles”.

“When you have a big title in the market and we have many of them coming, historically that has sold consoles,

And I think that will happen this year. I don’t think tariffs are going to be our friend, but I think there will be a meaningful uptick in console sales in calendar 25 because of the release schedule, not just coming from us, but coming from others. So I’m not concerned about that [console sales falling]. I think the trend that you’d want to focus on is this increasing share of the market that is reflected in PC.”

Speaking of PC, if any of you out there are interested in playing GTA 6 on that platform, you’ll probably have to wait a little while – although not forever. Zelnick mentioned that “Rockstar has started with some platforms and then historically moved to other platforms”, hinting that GTA 6 is likely to launch on PC sometime after current-gen consoles.

While current-gen seems to be the focus for now, then, that doesn’t necessarily mean that console players will get all the bells and whistles when it comes to performance modes and the likes. One former Rockstar dev — who worked as an animator on both Grand Theft Auto 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 — says that 60FPS is unlikely for GTA 6, at least at launch.