Given the popularity of Rockstar Games, most publishers try to avoid clashing with their release dates. Well, with the release of GTA 6 scheduled for Fall 2025, before the delay was announced, publishers had to make some rough calls. Along with others, Hideo Kojima, the Game Director for Death Stranding 2, revealed that the release date for their game was affected because of GTA 6, too. Let’s take a look at what he said!
Hideo Kojima on GTA 6
Hideo Kojima is the Game Director of the upcoming game Death Stranding 2. He talked about GTA 6 during his podcast, “A Hideo Kojima Radio”. First spotted by @Genki_JPN via X, his tweet states that Kojima mentioned GTA 6 as one of the big sellers. He said that publishers decide the release date for their games based on the other best-selling games releasing around the same time.
Kojima talked about the original release date for Death Stranding 2 after a listener asked about the game’s release date. He revealed that the release date for the game was decided a long time ago. As per him, he preferred that the game get a September release. However, unfortunately, they had to set the change to June, as otherwise, there was chances that the game would clash with GTA 6.
Kojima during the podcast said, “For example some are saying GTA may or may not release in November. As soon as it would be announced for November, everyone would move out of they way. For instance, if a new Mission Impossible movie were to release in May, others wouldn’t be able to compete with that so would move somewhere else.”
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In other news, it was reported that a few experts have revealed technical details from the GTA 6 Trailer 2. As per them, the game was running at 1440p while using AMD’s FSR1 tech. They also talked about the possibility of the game running at 60fps on modern consoles. Along with that, they also talked about a Nintendo Switch 2 version.
