It seems like an age since Rockstar broke the web by releasing the debut trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6. Because the December 2023 launch of GTA 6 Trailer 1, because it’s referred to as, information-hungry followers have analyzed the trailer to inside an inch of its life, arising with all types of outlandish theories and predictions about what to anticipate when Rockstar lastly releases the sport subsequent 12 months.
Now, although, they’ve one thing tangible to work with, one thing greater than hypothesis to chew on: a necklace.
As redditor DogWifDreads signaled, the most recent GTA On-line replace, Backside Greenback Bounties, seems to have added the necklace worn by maybe the standout character from the GTA 6 trailer: the girl within the bikini. Evaluating a screenshot of the character from the trailer to the silver layered necklace now in the stores in GTA On-line, DogWifDreads despatched the GTA neighborhood on excessive alert.
“Dunno if anybody else has caught this however I used to be rewatching a trailer breakdown and I observed that the necklaces seen right here within the trailer have been added in GTAO with the Backside Greenback Bounties DLC,” DogWifDreads stated.
There’s nothing new to be gleaned from this obvious crossover, however that hasn’t stopped folks from looking for some which means in it. “Might be a stretch however regardless of the value of that necklace is would possibly imply one thing,” urged Affectionate-Wing771. “Contemplating all final digits are 0, we might skip that and we’ll have 4 digits, a attainable date and month – for one thing,” OtteLoc questioned, in full GTA concept meme mode. “Or it might simply be one other generic value like the remainder of the gadgets.”
Most individuals are taking this as what it in all probability is: a enjoyable nod to GTA 6 in GTA On-line. However that form of wise conduct is not any enjoyable in any respect, is it? I suppose it does recall to mind the powerful questions Rockstar faces in coping with the present GTA On-line neighborhood with the GTA 6 model ready within the wings. GTA On-line is part of GTA 5, however how will GTA 6’s model of GTA On-line be made out there? Will it’s offered standalone? Free-to-download? Part of GTA 6 at a $70+ value level? And what occurs to GTA 5’s GTA On-line when GTA 6 comes out? Will Rockstar successfully change it with the brand new model, as Blizzard did to Overwatch when it launched Overwatch 2?
The primary official GTA 6 trailer is the most-viewed online game reveal on YouTube inside 24 hours. Set in modern-day Leonida, a fictionalized model of Florida, GTA 6 will let gamers management Lucia and an unnamed male that some followers speculate is called Jason.
Questions have swirled round GTA 6’s launch date ever for the reason that preliminary reveal, with followers going feral over particulars like web site updates. Inside battle over Rockstar’s return to workplace coverage has led to questions over whether or not GTA 6 will in the end be delayed into 2026. Nonetheless, as of proper now, it seems to be like mum or dad firm Take-Two and Rockstar are decided to get GTA 6 out the door throughout its supposed launch window of fall 2025.
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