Fans might have to wait a whole other year before seeing a second Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer, at least according to a trusted gaming industry insider. After a full decade of playing Grand Theft Auto 5 and a year after Rockstar Games confirmed the project was in development, players finally got their first official look at the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto 6 earlier this week. The Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer confirmed many long-held rumors about the upcoming open-world crime title, such as it returning to the popular setting of Vice City and featuring a female playable character named Lucia.

Tom Henderson believes that the next Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer might not be released for at least a year. While he isn’t certain about this, he cites the gaps between trailers for past Rockstar titles like Grand Theft Auto 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 in a recent Twitter post. More specifically, he noted that Red Dead Redemption 2’s second trailer came 11 months after the first, while the equally successful Grand Theft Auto 5 took 17 months (nearly a year and a half) to release a second trailer - though another user corrected him by pointing out that it was only 12.

Regardless, fans have taken note of the apparent pattern in Rockstar’s trailer releases, but most are still happy to wait for the next look at Grand Theft Auto 6. After all, the first GTA 6 trailer is already rich in hidden details and clues about the game’s plot, such as a brief shot of Lucia wearing an ankle monitor that suggests she might be locked to a certain portion of GTA 6’s expanded map at first. The GTA 6 trailer itself is already one of the most-viewed gaming videos of all time, with Rockstar’s YouTube channel gaining almost 2 million new subscribers days after its release.

Grand Theft Auto 6 was already one of the most hotly-anticipated games in recent memory, and this has only been intensified after the release of its initial trailer earlier this week. It might be a year before Rockstar releases a second detail-packed GTA 6 trailer, though this one will likely be more focused on the story of Lucia and her boyfriend than the setting-oriented first look. Many fans are more than happy to wait in the meantime, especially since the initial Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer may yet have some remaining tidbits for eagle-eyed viewers to draw theories from.

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Grand Theft Auto 6
Action
Adventure
Systems
PlayStation-1 Xbox-1
Released
November 19, 2026
ESRB
Rating Pending - Likely Mature 17+
Developer(s)
Rockstar Games
Publisher(s)
Rockstar Games
Engine
Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE)
Prequel(s)
Grand Theft Auto 5
Franchise
Grand Theft Auto
Xbox Series X|S Release Date
November 19, 2026

WHERE TO PLAY

DIGITAL

Grand Theft Auto VI heads to the state of Leonida, home to the neon-soaked streets of Vice City and beyond in the biggest, most immersive evolution of the Grand Theft Auto series yet.

Jason and Lucia have always known the deck is stacked against them. But when an easy score goes wrong, they find themselves on the darkest side of the sunniest place in America, in the middle of a criminal conspiracy stretching across the state of Leonida — forced to rely on each other more than ever if they want to make it out alive.

Genre(s)
Action, Adventure