As GTA 4 turns 17, ex-Rockstar technical lead says that if GTA 6 was his baby, he “wouldn’t release any additional trailers” because it’s a “boss move”

We nonetheless do not know GTA 6‘s actual launch date, and even the endless cries for Rockstar to launch a second trailer really feel like they’ve died down from their moon-obsessed peak. Take-Two’s been fairly open about this radio silence being a part of its plans, and now one in all GTA 4’s key devs has stated that not solely does he reckon these plans are the correct name, if it have been as much as him, GTA 6 would not get a second trailer in any respect.

The dev in query, long-time Rockstar technical lead Obbe Vermeij, has stated a good quantity of stuff in regards to the studio’s newest launch over the past couple of years, and it is come up once more as he is posted to have a good time the seventeenth anniversary of GTA 4’s launch.

“The unique launch date was October 16, 2007, in time for Christmas,” he recalled about Niko Bellic’s LC odyssey, which ended up debuting on console on April 29, 2008, “We made the choice to delay the sport in July 2007.

“Solely at the moment did it develop into clear we have been going to overlook the deadline. I’m guessing decision-day for VI might be comparable. Fingers crossed for Take-Two’s August earnings report.”

As ever, Vermeij made it clear that he is acquired no inside information on GTA 6, having left Rockstar 9 months after GTA 4 got here out. Although, that did not cease him providing his view as to what he’d do if he was accountable for this newest launch.

“If it was my name I wouldn’t launch any further trailers,” he wrote, “There may be greater than sufficient hype round VI and the ingredient of shock goes to make the discharge solely greater as an occasion.” Replying to a fan suggesting that simply dropping a launch date and nothing else would make everybody’s head explode, the dev added: “It might be a boss transfer.”

Whereas ready till proper earlier than launch earlier than all of a sudden going all-in on the GTA 6 advertising and marketing is just about confirmed to be Rockstar’s plan, as I alluded to earlier, not bothering with any extra trailers as a part of that ambush is an fascinating take. In any case, it is probably the most apparent to truly put that launch date information on the market, except you favour a easy social media graphic or newswire put up.

All will definitely do the trick, however it might be Rockstar deciding to not trouble taking one other crack at decimating YouTube view records – that being the precise sort of factor execs usually love to have the ability to boast about.

We’ll must see the way it goes, however no matter occurs, GTA 6’ll be an enormous all-consuming meteor blast that different studios have already planned to avoid having their video games blown away by.