Grand Theft Auto VI trailer reveals game’s Florida-inspired setting
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Rockstar Games released the trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI, the highly-anticipated sequel to the series’ fifth installment, on Monday.
Rockstar originally intended to debut the trailer on Tuesday, but after it leaked online, the developer posted a link to X on Monday evening, stating, “Our trailer has leaked so please watch the real thing on YouTube.”
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Set to the song “Love is a Long Road” by Florida’s own Tom Petty, the trailer shows off various Florida-inspired scenes, from mud wrestling, to cop car twerking, to alligators entering convenience stores.
Most of the action appears to take place in a large city, which may look familiar to long-time fans of the Grand Theft Auto (GTA) series. 2002’s Grand Theft Auto: Vice City was set in a Miami-inspired city in the 1980s, while the GTA IV trailer appears to take place in the present.
Fans will have to wait a while to get their hands on the new GTA game and live out their Florida Man dreams. At the end of the trailer, Rockstar Games revealed that the game will be released in 2025.
That’s later than some anticipated — including researchers at Raymond James & Associates. In an early Tuesday brief obtained by the Associated Press, Raymond James analysts said that they originally expected Grand Theft Auto VI to arrive in the 2024 holiday season.
The sixth installment will be available on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X’S systems, Rockstar games and Take-Two said Monday. Shares of Take-Two Interactive fell about 2% at the opening bell.
While a specific 2025 date hasn’t been disclosed from Take-Two yet, industry analysts still predict the game will arrive in the first few months of the year — pointing to the company’s “commentary around bookings expectations” of just under $8 billion for the 2025 fiscal year.
“While investors are likely to be mildly disappointed in the precise timing, and we expect a slight down move in the stock as a result, this does not change our thesis on the anticipated scale of the release when it does hit shelves, which remains potentially massive,” the Raymond James analysts added. “It is simply a shift rather than a reduction in expectations.”
A decade has passed since the release of the series’ previous entry, Grand Theft Auto V, which has since become one of the best-selling video games of all time.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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