Rockstar and publisher Take-Two have not officially announced Grand Theft Auto 6 for PC, much to the annoyance of the PC crowd. However, Corsair Gaming’s finance VP, Ronald van Veen, is making some bold claims about when we can expect GTA 6 to launch on PC.
Speaking in the company’s latest financial report, Veen had this to say about Rockstar’s upcoming game: “Yeah, GTA 6 is probably the one everyone is talking about. And we’ll get a glimpse of that, I think, later on in the year for console. My understanding now it’s going to come out in the fall for console, and then early 2026 for PC.”
Despite the confidence in which Veem makes his claim, though, there are a couple of things to consider. The first is cynical: he might just be saying things to help bolster the sales of PC components, since that’s the business Corsair is in. It seems unlikely that Corsair would have any information on when Rockstar intends on putting GTA 6 on PC, although it is always possible that Veen has some friends inside the development team.
Secondly, a 2026 release for the PC version is a reasonable bet. Previous Grand Theft Autio games have debuted on console first and come to PC later. There isn’t much of a pattern to when they are released, though – GTA IV was just half a year after its console release, whereas GTA V took a year and a half to come to PC. Red Dead Redemption 2 took around a year to ride onto PC. It took an insult 14 years for Red Dead Redemption to come to PC after being released in 2010 for consoles.
In other words, Rockstar’s PC support is infuriatingly inconsistent. But there is some hope that they will at least try to get GTA 6 out in a timely fashion. Speaking last week, Take-Two’s big boss had this to say about the PC market: “With regard to others in our lineup, we don’t always go across all platforms simultaneously. Historically, Rockstar has started with some platforms and then historically moved to other platforms.”
“We have seen PC become a much more and more important part of what used to be a console business, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see that trend continue,”
Hopefully this mean he push Rockstar to get the game out for PC as soon as it’s ready, rather than the PC crowd having to wait years.
Returning to Veen’s words, though, do you think Corsair’s claims are to be believed? Is he just throwing out a reasonable assumption, or does he have genuine knowledge?
