GTA 6 Game Pass

Following the Take-Two Interactive Software Q1 2025 earnings call on August 8, 2024, Take-Two’s own CEO Strauss Zelnick has hinted that a GTA 6 Game Pass release will not be in the works. Frankly, even if Zelnick hadn’t hinted that Take-Two won’t be influenced by Microsoft’s decisions around Game Pass, it would be very weird for GTA 6 to see a Game Pass release.

It’s more than an understatement to say that GTA has been an incredibly successful franchise, particularly GTA 5 and its multiplayer counterpart GTA Online. Over the course of its lifetime, GTA 5 and GTA Online have generated billions of dollars in direct game sales and microtransactions.

Putting it simply, GTA 6 will likely be too successful for Game Pass. On its own, GTA 6 sales could easily eclipse any earnings made from putting the game on Game Pass. Even Zelnick seems to know this. When asked in 2022 what he thought of AAA games being made available for Game Pass at launch, Zelnick stated “That doesn’t make any sense to us, because economically speaking, we don’t think consumers are prepared to pay for that.”

More recently, Zelnick told GamesIndustry.biz that “offering a frontline title with a premium price in a subscription service, day and date, will push consumers to that subscription service for at least a period of time.” However, Microsoft’s push towards Game Pass wouldn’t “affect our decisions. Because our decisions are rational.”

Will GTA 6 ever come to Game Pass?

Zelnick has not strictly stated that GTA 6 will be unavailable on Game Pass in the future. In fact, in all likelyhood, GTA 6 will eventually become available, even if only for a brief time, and likely a year or two following the release date. After all, GTA 5 has become available on and off via Game Pass, even if it’s just the online mode.

So, it seems very likely that GTA 6 will eventually make its way onto Game Pass in some capacity, but not before GTA 6 release date or the GTA 6 PC version.