The release of GTA 6 is now a mere ten days away, primed to be the first mainline entry in the series in over 13 years. While this massive wait time between GTA 5 and GTA 6 has, at times, felt never-ending for excited fans, we’re finally just about there.
Of course, it’s never too early to start looking even further into the future, especially if you’re the CEO of Take-Two Interactive, Strauss Zelnick. According to the CEO, GTA 7 shouldn’t take another 13 years to release whenever it’s time.
Zelnick Claims Future GTA Projects Will Develop With Greater “Velocity”
In an interview with IGN, the publication references a recent story from Bloomberg in which some of Rockstar’s senior staff claimed that development of future GTA titles shouldn’t take as long moving forward. IGN floated the same question to Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, who said in response:
“We do think that the nature and velocity of the content we’ll see from our iconic franchises, including GTA, will look dramatically different over the next decade. And that’s really being driven by our industry leading commitment to releasing the highest quality entertainment, to reaching our players in new ways and in new places and trying to maintain engagement with our consumers post-launch.”
Of course, Take-Two and Zelnick have many more video game franchises they manage, but it is extremely interesting that he distinctly states “including GTA” in this response to IGN.
On the other hand, it’s not incredibly absurd to claim the next GTA title won’t take 13+ years as well, since that extended time frame is famously long at this point. Zelnick claiming that the “nature and velocity” of their future projects changing/improving over “the next decade” is not a guarantee that Grand Theft Auto 7 gets turned around abnormally quickly in the future someday.
Still, for a franchise as prolific and globally devoured as Grand Theft Auto, it’s encouraging to hear from both Rockstar senior staff and Strauss Zelnick alike that the goal is to work more quickly moving forward thanks to the groundwork laid by GTA 6’s development.
How much more “velocity” will be added to GTA 7’s dev cycle? We’ll have to wait and see… and also distract ourselves with GTA 6 in the meantime, at least for a little while.
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