Could GTA 6 Online Really Take 2 Years to Arrive?

There are only a couple of months before the release of GTA 6, but there is still one pretty big part of the game that Rockstar has not talked about at all, and it is GTA 6 Online. As you probably know by now, the extended look at the game was released this week on Netflix and YouTube, and a huge amount of new information was also revealed through various previews and interviews. Following all that, Forbes’ Paul Tassi has talked about Rockstar’s complete silence surrounding the multiplayer side of the game. He thinks we could potentially be waiting a lot longer than expected.

Keep in mind that anything that was said and will be talked about here is only speculation. Rockstar has not talked about it, nothing official has been released concerning GTA 6 Online and when we can expect it. So do not take the following as the official date for the release of GTA 6 Online. It is only speculation.

Where Is GTA 6 Online?

The situation is really interesting when you compare it to GTA 5. The previous game launched on September 17, 2013, and GTA Online followed just two weeks later on October 1.

GTA 6 is scheduled to launch on November 19, 2026, but if Online were to release so shortly after the base game, we would probably already know about it. You might therefore expect Rockstar to have at least started talking about their multiplayer plans by now. Except they have not. Rockstar has shown almost half an hour of GTA 6 gameplay, talked in detail about Jason, Lucia, the open world, missions, police, robberies and pretty much every other aspect of the game. But GTA 6 Online has barely been mentioned at all.

Even Rockstar’s official GTA 6 page currently only shows the upcoming single-player game and does not provide any information about an online mode.

Could GTA 6 Online Be 1-2 Years Away?

That is where the speculation comes in. According to Forbes, one possibility is that GTA 6 Online could arrive a year or even two years after the launch of the main game. That is obviously a very different situation from GTA 5, where we only had to wait a couple of weeks. But there is a fairly logical reason Rockstar might take this approach. GTA 5 has been around for more than a decade, and GTA Online is still making money. Rockstar could therefore allow GTA 6 to launch on its own, let players spend months exploring the new single-player experience, and watch how the existing GTA Online audience reacts before introducing its successor.

It would also give the studio more time to make sure GTA 6 Online is ready instead of trying to launch everything simultaneously. And considering the fact that Rockstar pointed out that the single-player game is not even finished yet, it would make sense if they need more time to perfect the online mode as well!

We Just Do Not Know Yet

Ultimately, Rockstar has not said that GTA 6 Online is launching one or two years after GTA 6. In fact, Rockstar has not officially announced a release date for GTA 6 Online at all. The one- or two-year timeline is simply Forbes’ speculation based on Rockstar’s silence, the current state of GTA Online, and how much work remains to be done on GTA 6 itself.

So for now, it is entirely possible that Rockstar surprises everyone and launches GTA 6 Online much sooner, but after seeing just how much Rockstar has been willing to reveal about GTA 6 and saying practically nothing about its multiplayer plans, a delayed Online launch does not sound completely unreasonable either.

Let’s be honest, Rockstar probably has very little reason to rush it.

GTA 6 is already going to be one of the biggest game launches ever when it arrives on November 19, 2026, so it does not really matter if GTA 6 Online arrives two weeks later like its predecessor, several months later, or even one or two years down the line. We will just have to wait for Rockstar to finally tell us what they are planning!

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