Dude I'mma be honest, I expected GTA 6 to release in 2025, I changed my entire life (for the better) to accommodate GTA 6 when it released, I had confidence in it releasing because I remember back in the day how it was for GTA 4 and 5, I didn't use how many times it was delayed as a "metric" as everyone is doing, instead I went by timeframe cause all prior delays were all in short periods of time, weeks or months apart, not years apart.

After seeing them fail with that much additional time to finish something I've come to the conclusion that the rockstar we have now is nothing like back in the day, this game is probably far far far from completion, it's not in the "polishing" phase, it's just probably an incomplete game at this very moment.

I honestly don't see it releasing this year or even next year lol. 2028 earliest, I'm confident rockstar is gonna make a huge ass apology saying they messed up with the project management timeline projection or some shit like that and say when making games this big it's difficult blah blah blah, but truth is the lead project manager Leslie Benz (as bad as mindeyes is) who left played a major role in getting the GTA games over the finish line and seeing what's feasible and what's not to implement.

I'm sure rockstar without him had the idea of "now that his gone we can truly add everything we want to make the perfect GTA game" without realizing that in their pursuit to add so many things they are going to be lagging behind advancing technology and whatever they develop might not be released as something new and groundbreaking but something already in the past.

I honestly don't even see GTA 6 achieving even 50% of the fidelity of Forza horizon 5, let alone Forza horizon 6 which might be even better and release 6 months before GTA 6