{"id":77292,"date":"2026-05-05T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77292"},"modified":"2026-05-05T11:36:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:36:39","slug":"hitman-dev-talks-gta-6-delay-first-light-for-switch-2-and-whats-up-with-its-fantasy-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77292","title":{"rendered":"Hitman Dev Talks GTA 6 Delay, First Light For Switch 2, And What&#8217;s Up With Its Fantasy Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hitman developer IO Interactive has discussed a number of hot-button issues, including the impact of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/grand-theft-auto-6-everything-we-know\/1100-6503729\/\">GTA 6<\/a>&#8216;s delay, the status of the game&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/007-first-light-delayed-for-switch-2\/1100-6539272\/\">delayed Switch 2 version<\/a>, and what&#8217;s going on with its mysterious fantasy game.<\/p>\n<p>IO Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak covered these topics in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamebusiness.com\/p\/we-talk-007-amazon-switch-2-hitman\">The Game Business<\/a>. Regarding the impact of GTA 6&#8217;s delay from May 2026 to November 2026, Abrak said he would be lying if he said he didn&#8217;t care about GTA 6 shifting further away from 007 First Light&#8217;s release on May 27. First Light was originally set to launch in March, which was just a couple months before GTA 6 was supposed to release in May. Then Rockstar delayed GTA 6, and this provided &#8220;a bit more breathing room&#8221; for First Light.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;GTA is a huge behemoth in our industry,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We never wish anyone ill. They have their good reasons for pushing it. I am certain it\u2019s going be amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC editions of First Light will release on May 27, the Switch 2 edition was delayed to summer. Abrak was asked if the Switch 2 version would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/borderlands-4-on-switch-2-has-paused-development-and-might-never-release\/1100-6537897\/\">vanish like Borderlands 4&#8217;s Switch 2 edition did<\/a>, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hitman developer IO Interactive has discussed a number of hot-button issues, including the impact of GTA 6&#8216;s delay, the status of the game&#8217;s delayed Switch 2 version, and what&#8217;s going on with its mysterious fantasy game. IO Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak covered these topics in an interview with The Game Business. Regarding the impact of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":77294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77295,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77292\/revisions\/77295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}