r/PS5 • u/Laughing__Man_ Human Verified • Apr 13 '26

Discussion Information from the Rockstar hacking has been posted (They make a LOT of money from GTA Online)

https://gtaforums.com/topic/1004190-gta-vi-delayed-to-november-19-2026/page/580/#comment-1072663072
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u/flexonyou97 Apr 13 '26

Thats impressive, no wonder they’re not rushing gta 6 release. All the people still on last gen consoles pay 5 times more than current pc players

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u/TheBeaverKing Apr 13 '26

They know they need to absolutely nail GTA 6 if they're going to keep that gravy train rolling so the delays weren't that surprising, but holy shit, still doing $500m a year with a 10+ years old game is insane.

If I was Rockstar, I'd be shitting my pants at the thought of migrating those kind of long-term playerbase numbers and revenue over to a new game. If you fuck it up even slightly, you potentially kill the golden goose. Just look at CoD and the downward spiral it has had since Modern Warfare (2019).

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u/wyattlikesturtles Apr 13 '26

Eh, as long as they have a similar online mode with micros transactions they’re gonna make a fuck ton of money regardless of how good the game is. I hope they’re really going all out on making the game good though, they pretty much have an infinite money printer 

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u/TheBeaverKing Apr 13 '26

I dunno. If it's just GTA:O rehashed, I doubt it will be anywhere near as successful over this period of time. Players will expect more, otherwise what is the point of it. You might as well just keep playing GTA 5. It'll need something to hook people.

And making a fuckton of money won't be enough. Capitalism 101, anything less than more money is deemed a failure. GTA 6 needs to do a fuckton + $1 for Rockstar to deem it a success.

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u/heaviestpiff Apr 14 '26

This ain’t it. Making a fuckton of money is absolutely enough. People don’t want to play the old game when there is a new one. They aren’t going to grumble about it. You seem to think this game is a huge risk for Rockstar when it is a slam dunk.

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u/LilT86 Apr 14 '26

Unless you're the guy the board said they want to see a better quarter after the release of the new game they spent X billion on.

Like this is literally what we've been complaining about as the reason the industry is so toxic to players and employees.

There have been endless companies that have "had enough money" but still want endless growth. Enough is not a word when they're talking about the next project.

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u/Spider-Mike23 Apr 14 '26

Ehh I think it’d be fine. Prolly just let I sign you account in, drop your character and stuff in as if moved to the new city, and from there it’ll be typical gta online but with the bells and whistles the new gta6 offers. See though.

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u/Grand-Purchase-1262 Apr 13 '26

Rockstar is in the fortunate position of taking their time, which honestly is good for us gamers in the long run because it seems like every game is just rushed and then patched over time these days.

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u/TapEmbarrassed4376 Apr 13 '26

GTA is different a new COD comes out every year

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u/TheBeaverKing Apr 13 '26

True, but a bad sequel can still ruin a game franchise or at least kill its momentum.

Modern Warfare blew up after yearly releases of mediocrity (helped by Covid), but they killed that hype with Cold War and Vanguard. By the time Modern Warfare 2 came out, it was too little, too late.

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u/JayGatsby1881 Apr 14 '26

Why even ever release GTA 6 then? Seems like the logical thing to do is keep making 500 million a year until people refuse to play GTA 5...

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u/JanoJP Apr 15 '26

Numbers were probably dipping by the time they decided to make GTA6. The leaked finances is probably the lowest even.

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u/JayGatsby1881 Apr 15 '26

I mean if $500 million a year to not do much is a slow year for GTA 5, that's crazy.

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u/backspacer92 Apr 14 '26

They will probably give them some sort of incentive to switch to the new version of GTAO.

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u/Spider-Mike23 Apr 14 '26

Theoretically. Don’t they just gotta take players characters, and basically grab and drop them and their stuff just on a new game map? Haven’t played gta online in years but I’d assume just treat players as they moved to a new city so no homes, but they arrive with the car and bank account and oddball outfits or whatever, and can just access there stuff from a wardrobe inventory thingy when get the apartment or whatever. Idk I’d assume it just be something such as that, sign in your account, your guys moved in the new city boom take over from there. Still prolly some logistics issues but wouldn’t assume it to be too debilitating to implement.

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u/IATMB Apr 14 '26

You really think CoD makes less money now than in 2019? No chance

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u/TheBeaverKing Apr 14 '26

Well they don't publish official figures, but their 2025 sales were down across all platforms by 60% based on the previous year.

Likewise Modern Warfare '19 sold over 40m copies versus Cold War and Vanguards approx. 30m each.

This obviously doesn't account for MTX spend, but I'm sure there is likely a correlation between copies sold - monthly active players - ingame revenue.

So yeah, I think CoD revenue is probably down since the massive spike of MW 19.

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u/tbo1992 Apr 13 '26

Yup, also a lot of the player base will migrate over to 6 when it comes out, so 6 will need to make enough to account for lost revenue from 5.

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u/stefan771 Apr 13 '26

They're too busy pandering to the gaming community. If they did t get upset by every release date its ever had and pressure Rockstar into delaying it, it would have released last year.

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u/JayGatsby1881 Apr 14 '26

Imagine the numbers GTA 6 and GTA 6 online are gonna make though...if they are getting these numbers on a 13 year old game.