Analysts react to GTA 6 delay: "2025 will clearly be the year of Nintendo now" and "the delay isn't a stumble – it's Rockstar doing what it always does"

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It’s also an all-consuming blockbuster threatening to bury any adjacent releases.

(As it happens,Ghost of Yotei pre-ordersbegan just hours after the delay broke.)

It’s an opportunity.

The implications for Rockstar and GTA 6 itself are no concern, Van Dreunen reasons.

That’s how GTA 5 managed to achieve its success, too."

The sowing can sound good, but the reaping may come.

Likewise, Van Dreunen reckons that “the rest of the industry, meanwhile, is pulling back.

Without GTA 6 to boost momentum, 2025 will be a cautious, quiet year.”