Borderlands 2 Launch Date May Have Just Narrowed Down GTA 6’s Release Window

We may be inching closer to a Grand Theft Auto 6 release date, based on the latest news about Borderlands 4. Both games are scheduled to be released this year, and there’s relatively little we know about either one of them. Borderlands 4 has only gotten two trailers – GTA 6 still just the one. But both games got major updates this February, and, considering what we now know about Borderlands 4‘s release date, it may have just gotten a lot easier to predict GTA 6‘s.

If Borderlands 4 is set to be released on September 23, 2025, then it’s likely GTA 6, with its fall 2025 release window revealed during Take-Two’s earnings call, will come out closer to October or November to avoid conflict. It’s a little-known fact that Borderlands and GTA are published by the same parent company: Take-Two Interactive, which owns both 2K and Rockstar. While the two games obviously have different development and marketing teams, there may be an overlap in resources at Take-Two. It’d make sense to space them out a bit so the company isn’t stretched totally thin.

This is a pretty common practice in the entertainment industry at large: movies, TV series, and games with similar audiences are typically spaced out, so the target audience of one doesn’t end up conflicting with the target audience of the other. Most fans of both series wouldn’t be likely to pick up both games on launch if they came out in the same month – who can afford that, especially if GTA 6 really does cost $100? Take-Two obviously wants both its games to succeed, and it wouldn’t give either a fair chance by releasing them so close together.

Therefore, it seems probable that GTA 6 will be out later in the fall. Since Borderlands is coming so late in September, it’ll likely be late October at the earliest that we see a GTA 6 release. You could make the case for a November/early December release, too; GTA 6 is likely to be a fairly popular gift this year, so putting it out right in time for Black Friday and the holiday shopping season would also make a lot of sense.

Whatever the case, it’ll likely be some time until we hear more about GTA 6. Rockstar is notorious for keeping mum about its upcoming games, letting fans drive the hype cycle naturally with their wild speculation and breathless theory-making. Still, these latest theories are encouraging, because if nothing else, they confirm that Grand Theft Auto 6 will still be out in 2025 (barring any unexpected delays, of course).