Rockstar Games

Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick has been giving some seriously mixed signals to PC players over the past year. In November 2025 Zelnick said that the games industry is "moving towards PC and business is moving towards open rather than closed." Then in February 2026 he said "We have seen PC become a much more and more important part of what used to be a console business, and I wouldn't be surprised to see that trend continue." That sure seemed like a promising attitude. However, in May 2026 Zelnick said "Rockstar always starts on console because I think with regard to a release like that you're j

Releasing a code in a box for a few weeks only to then replace it with the disc version physical game fans want a might seem like an odd business move on the surface, but it further solidifies the theory that the only reason Rockstar is doing a code-in-a-box release for GTA 6 is to prevent pre-launch leaks. No matter what precautions Rockstar tries to take, if discs are being prepared for release day, then, as other big launches have proved, it's almost inevitable that your game will leak before release day. Rockstar has upset people with the code-in-the-box approach, but it will also have the

Don't get your hopes up. Rockstar traditionally launches GTA games on consoles first and ports for Windows PC come some time later. (Grand Theft Auto 5 didn't arrive on PC until a year and a half after it launched.) For now, GTA 6 is only confirmed for PS5 and Xbox Series X.