I'm going to say 70% chance it's delayed beyond May of next year.

Yep. The PS6 and Nextbox which will cost the price of a small modest home.

At any rate, Rovkstar would never get away with it now with upgrade packs and upgrade options. They'll get 10 euro for their 10th gen port. 

** Insert "We got X before GTA6" meme here ** - the list is getting even longer now...

I never felt confident of it coming in 2025, so that doesn't surprise me.

How does this affect the calculus for a possible GTA 4 or GTA 5 release on Switch 2?

God I hope so, it fucking sucks to be addicted to a game this time of year, that's what the winter months are for... not thst I'm confident in GTA6, I think it'll be the safest, borderline kids game in the franchise history and feel soulless with political correctness and none of the satire, not that they can satire modern times which is already satire itself. 

Not surprising but until now I was still hopeful that a 2nd trailer for it was around the corner. PS5 and Xbox Series sales will obviously be worse this year now but better next year so it's a wash. Most people should more than ever tone down their expectations for its immediate impact on hardware sales though. It should cause a big boost for some weeks but then it'll quickly taper off since by mid 2026 over 75% of people who'll buy a PS5 or Xbox Series will have already done so thus the vast majority of people who'll play it on those platforms will already have one. Hell it could even get delayed another few months exacerbating that further.

Another thing is that talk of future Xbox and Playstation hardware should start ramping up next year so now the gen 10 remaster could come out just 1-2 years later and potentially not far from the PC version. Also 2025 is now unfortunately not as crazy a year for gaming any more but 2026 will now be significantly bigger with GTA 6 and the first full calendar year of the Switch 2 both happening. Still rough for the industry though since many will have been really hoping for GTA 6 this year.

Late 2026 release confirmed.

Negligible. 

Almost no chance GTA VI will ever come to Switch 2 and a moderate chance at best GTA IV or V will come to Switch 2. 

Strauss zelnick and the board of directors are such cunts. Seriously why not just delay it till 2028 and launch it with ps7? Lol. Personally i lost hype for the franchise years ago, but i feel for those who've been eager.