Take-Two shares tank after GTA 6's delay, CEO Strauss Zelnick assures panicky investors it'll still
By Dr. Eleanor Vance | Published on December 03, 2025
Rockstar went and dropped a bomb on what was otherwise quite a sleepy Friday when it announced that—whoops, sorry—it was actually going to release GTA 6's console version on May 26, 2026, rather than in [[link]] its previously announced release window of autumn 2025.
Which sure made game devs hoping to release something this year breathe a sigh of relief, but didn't much please investors in Rockstar's parent company Take-Two Interactive. Per the FT, Take-Two's share price dropped 15% in the aftermath of Rockstar's characteristically austere news post announcing the delay.
So it's no wonder Take-Two put out its own press release concurrently with Rockstar's announcement—it anticipated just this kind of reaction. This release, though, was less focused on players and more aimed at convincing its bug-eyed investors that the sky wasn't falling. "We support fully Rockstar Games taking additional time to realize their creative vision for Grand Theft Auto 6," said Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick.
But Take-Two urges its shareholders not to freak out, and promises it'll still make more money than anyone could possibly know what to do with even with GTA's release date slipping across the horizon. Take-Two's took some time and "reiterated its expectations that the Company will achieve sequential increases in, and record levels of, Net Bookings in Fiscal 2026 and 2027," which is to say it's still gonna sell a record volume of stuff in this fiscal year (2026) and next fiscal year (2027, they make this stuff confusing on purpose, I reckon).
"As we continue to release our phenomenal pipeline," Zelnick reassured investors, "we expect to deliver a multi-year period of growth in our business and enhanced value for our shareholders." Well, that's a weight off my mind.
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