Grand Theft Auto 6 might be delayed again, but that doesn’t mean the game’s nowhere near done. In fact, it sounds like Rockstar Games is just being meticulous. According to reliable insider Tom Henderson on the latest Insider Gaming podcast, the game has been ‘content complete’ for a while now. Rockstar decided to delay and spend the next year polishing every inch of GTA 6 to ‘perfection.’
“From what I’ve heard, it’s been content ready for a very long time,” said Henderson. Nevertheless, the team is taking its time to make sure the open-world crime sandbox comes out of the oven ‘perfect.’ He added, “If there’s a single glitch, like somebody glitches through the door or something like that, people are going to run with it, and it’s just going to be a bad look for them.”
The insider also dismissed rumors of another GTA 6 delay beyond the November 2026 window. “I don’t think it’s going to be delayed again. I mean, we’re talking, this is a substantial delay, right? This is another six months,” he said confidently.
That obsessive level of polish isn’t surprising for a studio known for being thorough. Henderson recalled that Red Dead Redemption 2 went through a similar process, with delays tied to bug fixes and quality control. The result, of course, was one of the most technically impressive games ever made, despite a few wild glitches.
“Do you remember the thing? There was a bug where if you threw Throwing Knives at the planks of rope bridges, the bridge would just, like, start flipping away like crazy,” reminisces the Insider Gaming team. “You step on the bridge, you get shot up into space.”
However, a Reddit user going by Ayershole claimed the opposite, suggesting that Rockstar’s perfectionism might not be the only reason behind the November 2026 delay. “They’ve delayed the game because they’ve failed console certification THIRTY SIX times,” they wrote. “Some of the roughest launches will fail 5, maybe 6 times. 30+ is wild.”
The Redditor, who says they work in the industry, cited a Rockstar employee as their source. “The reason they keep delaying is because every time they submit back to cert, they fail. […] I imagine the list of errors they’re getting back from the platforms are huge.”
Rockstar might be chasing perfection, but from the sounds of it, things behind the scenes are anything but smooth. Days before the delay announcement, the studio made headlines for laying off dozens of employees across its UK and Canada offices. It blamed the employees for leaking confidential materials, but a whistleblower has since called that out.
Maybe Rockstar will get GTA 6 perfect by its November 2026 launch, but fixing its reputation in the industry might take a few more patches.
