Inside GTA VI: The $1 billion game that could make $3 billion in four months – CNBC TV18

Thirteen years after Grand Theft Auto V became a record-breaking success, Take-Two Interactive-unit Rockstar Games is preparing to launch its successor.

GTA VI, as it’s known, is expected to be one of the biggest entertainment releases in history, and is already one of the most expensive video games ever made.

How big a deal is it? Remember the summer film epic The Odyssey and how it broke the box office? That’s expected to be peanuts by comparison, with GTA VI seen making the same kind of money in weeks.

The game’s launch, however, comes at a challenging time for the industry, which is facing rising development budgets, mass terminations and widespread studio closures.

Still, Rockstar holds a unique position among its rivals. In this weekly documentary, Bloomberg Originals explains just how much is at stake for the studio and the industry as a whole.

Backed by the success of the franchise and financial support of parent Take-Two, Rockstar has the luxury to develop at huge scale, with estimates suggesting the budget for GTA VI exceeds $1 billion.

Part of that investment can be seen in the detailed, fictionalised version of Miami that the game is set in, featuring high-fidelity graphics…

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