GTA 6 is slowly crawling to its release date of November 2026 after two gruelling delays, but a GTA 5 actor reckons the long-awaited sequel could be pushed back even further and it wouldn't really matter. In fact, the game's just going to get better the longer Rockstar Games cooks.
That's according to Jay Klaitz, the actor who voiced GTA 5's main heist planner and information scout Lester Crest, also frequently appearing in several GTA Online storylines.
Speaking to El Dorado about the upcoming sequel, Klaitz gives props to series producer Rod Edge for being "so f**king cool" and shouts out "the people on the ground, in the room, making that game day to day [who] are solid people."
As mentioned, there's been lots of worry about GTA 6 potentially being delayed again. That discourse is partly fuelled by, well, the two previous delays and partly fuelled by the shockingly long 13-year gap between Grand Theft Autos, but Klaitz tempts fate and kinda shrugs his shoulders at the possibility.
"The longer Rockstar take to make GTA 6 and give guys like Rod the time they need, the cooler it’s going to be," he says. "It could have been another month or another five months or six months or whatever. It's going to be cool."
I'd encourage anyone who's got alarm bells ringing in their brains to, at this point, breathe deeply. GTA 6's release date is locked down pretty tightly as Rockstar Games' parent company, Take-Two, recently reiterated that the game's marketing campaign won't kick off in earnest until later this summer. That means everything from a third trailer to billboards are likely, almost definitely, but not certainly, locked and loaded.
Another big talking point around GTA 6 is its still mysterious price tag, despite pre-orders not even being available yet. Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has said in the past that he wants to "deliver way more value than what we charge" with all of the company's games. "I think we're known for that."
But that didn't stop the site from asking Klaitz if a $100 GTA 6 price was too high. "I'm chasing my two kids around," the actor explains. "You know I'm thrilled if even once a week I get to sit down and jam one evening, but not for an evening. The reality is I don't have enough time to give a game to warrant dropping 100 bills on it."
The chances of GTA 6 shipping with a cost so high is very unlikely. Besides the nightmarish backlash that would ensue, a recent study suggested that Rockstar would actually leave money on the table by raising GTA 6's price to such a degree. Too many fans would simply opt out entirely.
He instead reckons that Rockstar will pull "the Lester move" by releasing the game at a price point on par with other AAA titles since it'll inevitably make bank for years to come off of whatever its online mode looks like: "Reel them in first, get them hooked."
"The Jay Klaitz move would probably be to keep prices at a level where the game is accessible to all players, but that's the romantic in me," he adds. "I also realize that's not the reality of what will happen."
