2025 is no surprise. GTA 5 is still being milked to death and raking in massive profits on a daily basis. Why mess with that formula and force out a sequel when the predecessor is still in it's prime years? From a financial viewpoint, that release date makes perfect sense. Give gamers the time to get hyped up about it, slowly wein themselves off GTA 5, then toss in 6 and keep the cycle going.
If 6 is going to be the gold standard going forward, I hope to heck that single player gets the DLC route that other open world games do. Not really a MP gamer myself so I don't care for the decade -long updates, but perhaps I'm in the minority. Hopefully someone at Rockstar does the math and comes to the conclusion that single player DCLs can be a profitable route.
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