Rockstar Games still hasn’t said a single official word about multiplayer in GTA 6, but at this point, the secret is barely holding together. Between court documents filed by Rockstar themselves and a very casual comment from the CEO of Twitch, the existence of a GTA 6 online mode — a successor to the phenomenally successful GTA Online — is looking like one of the worst-kept secrets in gaming. And now we may even have a rough idea of when it will show up.
What the Twitch CEO Said
During a recent stream, Twitch chief Dan Clancy reportedly let slip that he expects GTA 6 to receive its big online multiplayer component next year. While that’s clearly a personal expectation rather than an official Rockstar announcement, it’s a prediction worth taking seriously. Clancy sits at the top of the platform where GTA Online has remained a viewership juggernaut for more than a decade, giving him a front-row seat to exactly how much traffic a GTA 6 online launch would generate.
If his timing is accurate, it suggests Rockstar is planning to follow the same playbook it used with GTA 5: ship the single-player experience first, then layer in the persistent online world shortly afterward. That strategy worked spectacularly the first time, and there’s little reason to believe the studio would abandon it now.
Court Documents Already Spilled Part of the Story
Interestingly, Clancy isn’t even the primary source here. Rockstar’s own paperwork did much of the damage. Court documents filed as part of the ongoing final hearing in a legal battle over the firing of 34 developers last year have already made reference to GTA 6’s online component. When a company inadvertently confirms a feature through its own legal filings, and then the head of the world’s biggest streaming platform predicts a launch window on top of that, the writing is very much on the wall.
Why GTA 6 Online Feels Inevitable
Let’s be honest: a GTA 6 without an online mode was never realistically on the table. GTA Online launched shortly after GTA 5 arrived in 2013 and went on to become one of the most lucrative live-service games ever made, sustained by years of free expansions and steady microtransaction revenue. For Rockstar and parent company Take-Two Interactive, the question has never been “if” GTA 6 gets an online counterpart — it’s “when,” and how big it will be at launch. Given how much the live-service landscape has evolved since 2013, expectations for GTA 6 Online are astronomically high.
The Last Big Unknown: The PC Port
Here’s where Clancy’s prediction gets genuinely interesting. If GTA 6’s online multiplayer really does land next year, then virtually every major piece of the puzzle falls into place — except one. The PC version’s release date would remain the final open question.
History Suggests PC Players Will Wait
Rockstar has a well-established habit of making PC gamers exercise patience. GTA 5 arrived on consoles in September 2013 but didn’t reach PC until 2015. Red Dead Redemption 2 followed a similar pattern, hitting PC more than a year after its console debut. With GTA 6 confirmed for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S first, PC players are once again bracing for a lengthy wait — and nothing in the latest chatter suggests that pattern is about to change.
So the picture forming is this: console launch, followed by online multiplayer next year per the Twitch CEO’s expectation, with a PC port drifting somewhere on the horizon beyond that. None of it is official yet, of course — Rockstar will announce things on its own schedule, as it always does — but the puzzle pieces are aligning.
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Source: Rock Paper Shotgun
Source: Rock Paper Shotgun