Rockstar's Phil Hooker: GTA 6 is "never completely settled", Schreier says, per GamesRadar+

Rockstar's director of technology, Phil Hooker, told Bloomberg's Jason Schreier that GTA 6 is still changing, GamesRadar+ reported on October 16, 2026. GamesRadar+ took the quote from a YouTube video in which Schreier expands on his Bloomberg reporting. The GamesRadar+ report carries no separate Rockstar statement.

In the quote as GamesRadar+ gave it, Hooker said "The game is never completely settled." He went on to say "We never have an exact blueprint", and that even within the last few months "we've changed things". GamesRadar+ framed the remarks as a sign that work was still going on with a November 19 launch about a month away.

Schreier also said in the video that Rockstar's leadership told him there was no single big reason behind the game's delays. According to GamesRadar+, his account was that the many parts of the game were not coming together the way anyone wanted, and the game was simply not ready yet.

GamesRadar+ added its own view that this is normal in the industry, since developers keep adjusting games up to launch and after it, which is why day-one patches exist. The writer described big modern games as living documents and said the 13 years since the last GTA had built unusual attention and expectation. Those comments are the outlet's opinion. The GamesRadar+ report carries no word from Rockstar on whether a day-one patch is planned.

The account is secondhand: it comes from Schreier's video as relayed by GamesRadar+. Hooker's quoted remarks do not say which parts of the game were changed, or when.