The long-awaited trailer for GTA 6 It was finally revealed in December last year, bringing a brief look at the sequel and lots of exciting news that stoked fans’ hype. The release date is scheduled for 2025, so many won’t miss out on waiting to discover the game’s new Vice City.
The sequel is easily one of the most anticipated games of all time — and there are people out there putting a lot of faith in the project. In a recent interview with GamesIndustry.bizMat Piscatella, famous analyst, stated that GTA 6 is the “most important game in the industry”.
Asked by the vehicle about gaming market trends for 2024 and beyond, Piscatella states that, at the moment, his “most optimistic outlook is a drop of around 2%” for this year.
“There is a lot of uncertainty when you look at sales data or make projections for this year. There are uncertainties around hardware. There are uncertainties around content. Who the hell is making the games?”, contextualized the analyst, who considers Palworld It is Helldivers 2 the two biggest games of the year so far.
For Mat Piscatella, Helldivers 2 and Palworld are the biggest games of 2024 so far.Source: PS Store
If interest rates fall in North America, the market may react
A Circana, the tracking company where Piscatella works, gathers diverse data on music, series, films and video games. The analyst states that most fans know the release schedule for all of these areas of entertainment, except games.
“You know the movie slates. You know the music slates. You know the other entertainment stuff. We know Marvel’s TV schedule will be coming out forever, but we don’t know what games are coming out next month,” he explained. .
GTA 6 is the most important game in the industry, according to analyst Mat Piscatella.Source: Rockstar
Although he is pessimistic and has low projections for the current year, Piscatella looks to 2025 with good eyes, as it will mark the big debut of GTA 6 in the market. If there is a drop in interest rates in the North American territory, we could also see a “boost in the development cycle again”.
“This will be a difficult year, but if you look at 2025, if interest rates fall and money flows a little more freely to developers and publishers, we should get a boost in the development cycle again,” he explained to GamesIndustry.biz.
“We will have a renewed lot of interest with GTA 6 in particular. There has probably never been anything more important to release in the industry, so no pressure“, he concluded.
GTA 6 has a release window scheduled for 2025 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S — no PC version at first. Looking forward to the sequel? Comment on social media Voxel!
