Where's Grand Theft Auto 5?

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 9 August, 2011

We'll hear about unannounced titles soon.

Take-Two will announce new games scheduled for release during its next financial year in the "coming months", the company has said.

Last night Take-Two reported its Q1 FY2012 results, and boss Strauss Zelnick said the US publisher has some unannounced titles for release during the next fiscal year that gamers will hear about in the "coming months" – comments that have sparked speculation that Rockstar may soon announce Grand Theft Auto 5.

During a question and answer session Zelnick was asked by an analyst how the company will reach profitability without a Grand Theft Auto release in fiscal year 2013 (April 2012 to March 2013).

Zelnick batted the question away, pointing to Irrational's BioShock Infinite and Gearbox's Borderlands 2.

As GTANet.com notes, the last time Take-Two achieved the $2 per share net income it hopes to make during its next financial year, it launched Grand Theft Auto IV.

"Looking ahead to fiscal year 2013, we have already announced three exciting new releases: BioShock Infinite, Spec Ops: The Line, and Borderlands 2, and we have a very strong pipeline of yet-to-be announced titles in development," Zelnick concluded.

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Comments (38) Latest comment 10 months ago

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  • Markitron #1 10 months ago

    Id say its likely enough, we all know they have been working on it for 3 years.

  • prudislav #2 10 months ago

    still hope for RDR on PC

  • GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #3 10 months ago

    Would prefer RDR2 than GTA5

  • Bradach #4 10 months ago

    it'll have to look at least as good as the recent PC mod

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nnu_ZENsRc

  • Ignatius_Cheese #5 10 months ago

    Erm, the line-up ain't that strong so far, Zelnick.

    I mean, Spec Ops? Really...?

    The elephants in the room are clearly GTA at Rockstar North and a new Red Dead game at San Diego, no?

  • bumyoghurt #6 10 months ago

    Who needs Grand Theft Auto? I live in South London, I am getting it IRL at the moment.
    And just like GTA 4, it sucks balls.

  • Ignatius_Cheese #7 10 months ago

    @GamesProgrammer - Red Dead Revolution, with an American Civil War setting. Battlin' the Confederacaaaaahhh!

  • coolbritannia #8 10 months ago

    Camden? Now? Too obvious?

  • StolenGlory #9 10 months ago

    "Who needs Grand Theft Auto? I live in South London, I am getting it IRL at the moment.
    And just like GTA 4, it sucks balls."

    Why don't you go bowling with a friend then? Take your mind off it.

  • leketin #10 10 months ago

    Absolutely no point in GTA5 now as GTA4 is still a pinnacle of what GTA can be on this generation. If only they allowed us to go to space...

  • bumyoghurt #11 10 months ago

    @StolenGlory - That's a zing!

  • Ultrasoundwave #12 10 months ago

    GTA : Swansea

    Cant wait!

  • arcam #13 10 months ago

    GTA V will surely be next generation. Each new iteration needs to support a series of games and there isn't really time for that left in this gen.

    So really, their announcements are tied to the platform-holders' announcements - can't announce anything concrete until they do first.

  • jablonski #14 10 months ago

    Doesn't Wesley live in Croydon? If so, nice to see he's still alive!

  • Xboxfanuk #15 10 months ago

    you know Take Two originally published Oblivion as well. They have to be one of the best publishers out there for AAA.

  • Ryze #16 10 months ago

    Hopefully.

    I've realised over the weekend, why Blur couldn't hope to be a massive sales success.

    GTA4. Everyone's got or owned it, and GTA Races are AT LEAST as much fun as Blur, in a city that everyone's familiar with.

  • Spekingur #17 10 months ago

    GTA: Iraq?

  • metalangel #18 10 months ago

    @tjtj: Huh? Only Johnny Klebitz was a particularly 'bad' guy in GTAIV, Niko and Luis were both trying their best to do right but (because it's GTA game) railroaded into massacres by having to take jobs from lunatics. That's not unlike most of RDR's plot, come to think of it.

  • bad09 #19 10 months ago

    New GTA and RDR PC will do me nicely.

    "Absolutely no point in GTA5 now as GTA4 is still a pinnacle of what GTA can be on this generation"

    We won't be getting GTA5 this gen it will be sequels like VC or SA. same engine but improved, more varied missions and vehicles etc.

  • rottingyoda #20 10 months ago

    Vowed I'd never play another GTA after 100%ing Vice City. I suppose I'm the fool who's missing out but for me the narrative is poor and the general formula stale.

    Id welcome a completely different approach. The latest Splinter Cell (don't get me wrong, the original stealth games are my favourite but the latest iteration seemed fitting) and GTA4 splice? Just an idea that popped into my head but something is certainly needed.
    Edited by rottingyoda at 09/08/11 @ 11:13

  • romelpotter #21 10 months ago

    I hope its something with the scale and vision of San Andreas, but maybe somewhere new. And although I agree that GTA4 is the pinnacle of what can be achieved on this gen of console, by increasing the scope and making the game fun to play again instead of the snore/bore/chorefest that was Liberty City could mean it adds longevity to this irritation of consoles.

    On the other side, you could argue that it should be pushing boundaries on the next gen platforms, making sure they incorporate lessons learned from GTA4. Now that would be something to get excited about I think.

    My own opinion is that GTA now has very real competition from Saints Row, and that Saints Row the Third has the market boxed off on this generation of consoles, and so the dev time spent so far would naturally give Next Gen GTA a head start. On this basis I think that its more likely we will see GTA5 on next gen hardware, and it will incorporate some playable London element, with perhaps a similar scope to San Andreas.

    /talk about statin the bleedin obvious!!!
    Edited by romelpotter at 09/08/11 @ 11:13

  • metalangel #22 10 months ago

    @tjtj: Niko has a good heart, but he's been traumatized by what he encountered in the war. He just wanted to come and make a new life for himself (and find peace over what happened) but things spiral out of control. The stuff he shouts is just heat of the moment stuff.

    CJ, meanwhile, was indeed a psycho. Burying a guy alive in concrete because he wolf-whistled at his sister? Everyone just told him to go and murder hundreds of people and he just went 'a'ight' and did it. The stupidest part (of an already stupid story) was that he did all this shit because Tenpenny said he'd frame him for the murder of a police officer otherwise. Never mind that you'd kill dozens of cops in cold blood during the story, and be witnessed doing so by the public and other cops! I know it would mean no huge storyline, but why the hell not just kill Tenpenny?

  • Monkey_Puncher #23 10 months ago

    I'm hoping for more variety in the missions and much more to do in the city.

    Maybe a campaign that's fully playable in co-op online? Though considering how much Rockstar like to concentrate on story, I'd be surprised if we saw that.

    God what I'd do for another Vice City game that was set in the 80's....

  • Hindle #24 10 months ago

    Post deleted at 23:04:43 04-04-2012

  • miiiguel #25 10 months ago

    Was Niko a good guy? He always seemed like a total psychopath to me.

    Niko is neither a "good guy" nor a "bad guy", he's a "normal guy" with every human's ambiguity, the good/bad guy thing is an American bullshit to make us feel better about the "others". He only suffers of nihilism, but don't we all ? In my opinion Rockstar writes some of the best and more mature stories, sure it's not always clear who to "root for", but that's life anyway.
    Edited by miiiguel at 09/08/11 @ 11:37

  • metalangel #26 10 months ago

    @tjtj: For what it's worth, the people he's killing are criminals. Granted, some of the missions are based around you committing a crime too... but yeah, ambiguity.

    In many ways, Saint's Row 2 did the story better as everyone was so exaggerated and corrupt that you didn't really worry to much about any of them, enjoyed killing the obvious villains and the dodgy people you got jobs for all involved injuring the sociopathic civilian population anyway.

  • Jacksie66 #27 10 months ago

    Fuck gta....

  • Kikizosan #28 10 months ago

    "Who needs Grand Theft Auto? I live in South London, I am getting it IRL at the moment.
    And just like GTA 4, it sucks balls."

    Grand Theft JD Sports doesn't quite roll off the tongue...

  • Cobalt_Jackal #29 10 months ago

    I can't wait for GTA5. Wherever its gonna be, its certainly gonna be awesome.

  • king26 #30 10 months ago

    I'd love them to move away from the USA personally. Moscow, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Rio, Paris... But it will never happen unfortunately.

  • overcorpse #31 10 months ago

    I was under the impression Rockstar North was working on Agent for the PS3.

  • WukWhiteWolf #32 10 months ago

    Hope that it is Vice City 2, but I wouldn't mind a new San Andreas either.

  • Dr.Buckles #33 10 months ago

    GTA London, you play the part of a disenfranchised youth and you go on a wild ride of law breaking, arson and looting...

    Hang on I think thats something else.

  • fletch273 #34 10 months ago

    I just hope that the GTA franchise will go back to its roots a little bit. It's been way to "gritty" as of late. Doing all the ambulance and fire missions were a lot of fun, not to mention rewarding.

  • Spong #35 10 months ago

    "Would prefer RDR2 than GTA5"

    If they set it in modern-day America and swapped the horses for cars, then I'd prefer RDR2 as well.

  • Raconteur #36 10 months ago

    @Spong 10/08/11 @ 00:32"Would prefer RDR2 than GTA5" If they set it in modern-day America and swapped the horses for cars, then I'd prefer RDR2 as well........................................................................................................................Cars? No thanks.. Modern Red Dead
    Edited by Raconteur at 10/08/11 @ 06:46

  • CamberGreber #37 10 months ago

    Red Dead Redemption PC COME ON

  • TechnicPuppet #38 10 months ago

    I have yet to play more than 30 minutes of GTA Bore. Maybe they can actually make a fun game this time.