GTA 6: 10 Major GTA 5 Problems It Must Fix

1. Making Fans Wait 12 Years For The Sequel

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With GTA VI's trailer announcing an apparent 2025 release date, it'll hit stores around 12 years after GTA V first released in September 2013 - an almost unthinkable chasm of time for the sequel to any hugely successful video game.

And though between the still-lucrative GTA Online and Red Dead Redemption 2 Rockstar's coffers certainly haven't suffered, for anyone who loves this franchise as a predominantly single-player experience, that sequel gap is freakin' brutal.

Fans have already been not-so-jokingly speculating about when GTA VII will come out, and if it follows the development cycle of the sixth game, it won't hit until around 2037, by which time the PlayStation 7 will almost certainly be out.

And if you want to be a little too real about it, some of the people excited for GTA VI won't live to see the seventh game.

But it doesn't have to be this way. Though we have no idea what Rockstar will work on next - a third Red Dead Redemption, GTA VII, or a new IP entirely - the fact that GTA Online's early growing pains took up so much dev time shouldn't be something that's repeated here.

Of course GTA VI's iteration of GTA Online will be the company's focus for the foreseeable future, but with the game's infrastructure firmly cemented at this point, it'll hopefully mean that GTA VII comes to us at least a few years earlier than the late 2030s.

But as with everything on this list, we'll have to wait and see.

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