{"id":89203,"date":"2026-09-11T04:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89203"},"modified":"2026-09-11T04:41:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:41:05","slug":"gta-6-is-going-to-be-huge-so-why-is-take-twos-stock-having-such-a-bad-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89203","title":{"rendered":"GTA 6 Is Going To Be Huge. So Why Is Take-Two\u2019s Stock Having Such A Bad Year?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Take-Two owns one of the largest entertainment franchises out there in Grand Theft Auto. The newest entry, GTA 6, launches this November. There is enormous hype for the new game, which is expected to sell millions of copies at launch and break records. In short, it&#8217;s expected to be a once-in-a-decade (if not ever) kind of title. The game is also coming to market with a lot of positive sentiment and excitement. If you&#8217;re a Take-Two shareholder, however, the past year has been a big bummer. Take-Two&#8217;s share price has slid about 15% so far this year and is down about the same over the past year, meaning anyone who invested in the past year has lost money (at least on paper; gains or losses are not realized until positions are sold) in the run-up to GTA 6&#8217;s release in November.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s going on here? There are plenty of factors involved in what could be driving Take-Two&#8217;s stock price down, and plenty of reasons that this could ultimately just be a short-term blip.<\/p>\n<p> Zooming out <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, it&#8217;s important to zoom out. In the past five years, Take-Two&#8217;s stock price is up 39%. That is short of the growth of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take-Two owns one of the largest entertainment franchises out there in Grand Theft Auto. The newest entry, GTA 6, launches this November. There is enormous hype for the new game, which is expected to sell millions of copies at launch and break records. In short, it&#8217;s expected to be a once-in-a-decade (if not ever) kind&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":89205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89203"}],"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=89203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89206,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89203\/revisions\/89206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}