{"id":77356,"date":"2026-05-05T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77356"},"modified":"2026-05-05T18:36:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:36:43","slug":"how-much-did-gta-6-cost-to-make-heres-what-take-twos-ceo-had-to-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77356","title":{"rendered":"How Much Did GTA 6 Cost To Make? Here’s What Take-Two’s CEO Had To Say"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grand Theft Auto VI<\/a> no doubt had a big production budget, but just how much did the game cost to make? Neither developer Rockstar nor parent company Take-Two has disclosed a number, but Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick has now commented on the matter, saying “it was expensive.”<\/p>\n

He said this in an interview with Business Insider<\/a>, which also quoted unnamed industry analysts who said GTA 6’s budget could be as much as $1.5 billion.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Bloomberg<\/a>, Zelnick said his company has the “most amazing creative teams” and that Take-Two management insists that its creatives “pursue their passions,” even if it’s expensive.<\/p>\n

“We try to give them unlimited financial, creative human resources and then they aim to deliver perfection,” Zelnick said.<\/p>\n

Also in the interview, the executive reflected that development costs have “gone up and up,” and that the effort to make the “highest quality entertainment on Earth” is a “costly” endeavor.<\/p>\n

AI might help drive efficiencies that save costs, but Zelnick said, “We haven’t seen those costs decline yet,” and they might never, he admitted.<\/p>\n

Zelnick also pointed out that Take-Two’s ambition is to make blockbuster games, and that can mean spending more than its peers. “That’s a high-stakes game for big boys only, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grand Theft Auto VI no doubt had a big production budget, but just how much did the game cost to make? Neither developer Rockstar nor parent company Take-Two has disclosed a number, but Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick has now commented on the matter, saying “it was expensive.” He said this in an interview with Business…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":77358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77356","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\/77356"}],"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=77356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77359,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77356\/revisions\/77359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}