GTA 6 sickos in a frenzy as Rockstar owner Take-Two finally announces delayed financial call, fueling speculation a big reveal will fill the gap

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Take-Two Interactive, parent company to GTA 6 dev Rockstar Games as well as companies like Borderlands maker Gearbox, announced today that its fourth quarter financial results will be released on Thursday, May 21. This represents a one-week delay compared to the company's usual fiscal calendar, raising eyebrows among GTA 6 fans who speculate that movement around the most-anticipated game of all time may have affected the company's plans.

There's nothing out of the ordinary about Take-Two's announcement post itself, but the timing is a bit curious. For years, Take-Two has announced fourth quarter earnings between April 17 - 19, and reported them between May 15 - 17. Announcements and reports have also long arrived on Thursdays, barring the Wednesdays of 2023.

This year's April 23 announcement and May 21 call are outliers, albeit small ones. It's not uncommon for companies to shift fiscal milestones a smidge, though it is somewhat less common for them to do so in complete silence. I've listened to many a games industry financial call, and delays are often preceded by a heads-up or followed by an explanation of some kind.

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There could be any number of reasons for the delay, of course. The sheer size of the GTA audience and the extended delays around GTA 6 have cultivated a hyper-fixated culture keen to latch onto any sign of movement, read it like tea leaves, and interpret it as a sign of things to come. That's very much what's happening here, but at least the sickos have a grain of evidence this time.

A not-guaranteed, but not-unreasonable theory is that something GTA 6-related will arrive sometime before May 21, and perhaps after or very close to May 14, which would've been the expected timing for these quarterly results.

I've seen some fans wrongly theorize that this is somehow the last opportunity to announce yet another GTA 6 delay. It's not; Rockstar can do what it wants, when it wants. A delay could happen virtually anytime between now and November, however confident Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick says he is (again).

More reasonable is the theory that the long-awaited GTA 6 Trailer 3 could arrive in the coming weeks.

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Trailer 2 was released on May 6, 2025, four days after Take-Two made a conspicuous point of reiterating "expectations" to achieve record net bookings in FY2026 and 2027, and just nine days before its 2025 fourth quarter report.

A similar timeline for this year was, of course, perfectly possible even before we learned of this delayed financial call, but as tea leaves go, this one's not disproving it anyway. Take-Two is keenly aware of how GTA 6 will impact its fortunes, and it's very clearly willing to give it special treatment. I don't understand the people hallucinating exact, arbitrary days like May 19, but I can appreciate a bit of informed speculation here and there.

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Austin WoodSenior writer

Austin has been a game journalist for 12 years, having freelanced for the likes of PC Gamer, Eurogamer, IGN, Sports Illustrated, and more while finishing his journalism degree. He's been with GamesRadar+ since 2019. They've yet to realize his position is a cover for his career-spanning Destiny column, and he's kept the ruse going with a lot of news and the occasional feature, all while playing as many roguelikes as possible.

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