Bloomberg’s GTA 6 documentary says multiplayer comes “a year later”, and Jason Schreier says that is not inside information

A Bloomberg Originals video titled “Why GTA 6 Took 13 Years and $1 Billion to Make” has set off headlines about GTA 6 multiplayer, and Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier has since said the line behind them is the scriptwriter’s expectation, not inside information about a specific window. The video is not from Rockstar and is not an announcement. Rockstar has announced no online mode for Grand Theft Auto VI.

The video is on YouTube, on the Bloomberg Originals channel, and Bloomberg’s site has a page for it dated November 12. We have not been able to watch it ourselves yet, so what it says is given here as outlets report and transcribe it.

TheSixthAxis reports that at 9 minutes 58 seconds the narrator says: “Talking about GTA 6 as a single launch is missing something. The game that ships in 2026 is not even its final form,” and “The real long-term engine arrives a year later with multiplayer”. Notebookcheck quotes the last two of those sentences as one passage. TheSixthAxis adds that one of the video’s chapters on YouTube is named “The Online Multiplayer Engine”. Notebookcheck’s headline says the release window “has apparently leaked”. That is its word for a line in a published video, and its own article says it is unclear whether the narrator “accidentally mentioned an unannounced detail or simply made an assumption”.

Jason Schreier, the Bloomberg reporter, has addressed that question. Notebookcheck says the video features him and other Bloomberg reporters. A comment posted from the Reddit account u/jasonschreier, in the forum r/GamingLeaksAndRumours, reads: “This is just the video scriptwriter saying it’s expected in 2027, not inside info about a specific window.” VGTimes, which links to the Reddit thread, and Rolling Out both report the clarification as Schreier’s. We read the comment itself, and we rely on the account’s name and those two outlets for who wrote it. The post above it has since been removed by the forum’s moderators, but the comment was still visible when we read it on November 13.

What is official has not changed. In its prepared remarks on November 9, Take-Two said: “Rockstar Games will continue to support Grand Theft Auto Online with new content and ongoing events for its vast community.” That is today’s GTA Online, and the remarks do not mention an online mode for GTA VI.

Talk of 2027 is older than this video, and none of it is official. Twitch CEO Dan Clancy told Bloomberg in September that he expected “an even bigger one next year when they launch multiplayer”. Beebom, quoting Bloomberg’s October 14 feature, which we have not read, says it refers to an “online component, which is expected to be released in 2027”. Neither Rockstar nor Take-Two has confirmed either, and we give no date for an online mode.

The two numbers in the title are Bloomberg’s, not Rockstar’s. We have not seen how the film counts its 13 years, but the figure matches the gap between GTA V’s release on September 17, 2013 and GTA VI’s on November 19, 2026, which is 13 years and two months. Rockstar has never published a budget. Bloomberg’s October 14 feature, as IGN and GamesRadar+ both report, says Rockstar’s Jennifer Kolbe rejected a rumour of more than $1.5 billion and gave no figure. TheSixthAxis calls the $1 billion “estimated”.

The images on this page are official Rockstar images, not frames from the film. GTA VI launches on November 19.