The INSANE 13-Year Wait for GTA 6 (Day by Day)

Why did GTA 6 take so long? GTA 5 came out on September 17, 2013. GTA 6 launches November 19, 2026. That's 4,811 days: three PlayStations, a cowboy game, a hack pulled off with an Amazon Fire Stick, two YouTube records, two delays, and one very expensive cartoon alligator. Here's the whole wait, day by day, plus the math on whether it was worth it. How old were you when GTA 5 came out? Tell me in the comments. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 4,811 days of waiting 0:45 2013: GTA 5 makes $1 billion in 3 days 1:09 GTA Online changes everything 1:30 Same game, three PlayStations 2:03 Red Dead 2 (your sports car is a horse) 2:56 GTA 6 is finally confirmed 3:16 The hack 4:12 Trailer 1 breaks YouTube 5:17 Delay #1 and the surprise Trailer 2 6:10 Delay #2 6:48 Pre-orders and the $80 question 7:15 The Netflix reveal 8:17 Launch day, and was it worth it? 📚 SOURCES GTA V's $1 billion record (Guinness): https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/... GTA 6 confirmed, Feb 2022 (Gematsu): https://www.gematsu.com/2022/02/rocks... Trailer 1 record (TechCrunch): https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/05/gra... Trailer 2 views (TechRadar): https://www.techradar.com/gaming/the-... First delay (Rockstar): https://www.rockstargames.com/newswir... Second delay (Variety): https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/... GTA V sales (GTA BOOM): https://www.gtaboom.com/gta-v-keeps-s... The Netflix reveal (GamesRadar): https://www.gamesradar.com/how-to-wat... Lucia and GTA's female characters (Kotaku): https://kotaku.com/gta-6-first-woman-... Inflation (US BLS CPI calculator): https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_ca... 🎵 MUSIC "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... 📷 IMAGE CREDITS GTA VI and GTA V images: Rockstar Games (official media from rockstargames.com), used for commentary. Hourglasses: Wellcome Collection, CC BY 4.0 Birthday cake: Joey Gannon, CC BY-SA 2.0 Public domain / CC0 via Wikimedia Commons: PS3 and PS4 (Evan-Amos), PS5 (Howardcorn33), Fire TV Stick (ubahnverleih), skeleton art (José Guadalupe Posada; Sue Clark), horse photos (Eadweard Muybridge, The Met), calendar (Claudio Elias), Rockstar North building (Discott). Licenses: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ ℹ️ Fan channel. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Rockstar Games or Take-Two Interactive. Narration voice is AI-generated. Research, script and editing by a human. #GTA6 #GTAVI #Rockstar