AGrand Theft Auto 5player has pointed out a rather depressing fact about the game’s prologue mission. Rockstar’sGrand Theft Auto 5primarily takes place in Los Santos, San Andreas, but the game’s story starts out in a different location entirely.
Grand Theft Auto 5is known for its memorable prologue mission that takes place in Ludendorff, North Yankton. It’s here that Michael, Trevor, and their partner Brad take part in a robbery attempt that goes wrong. The job devolves into a shoot-out and car chase, and when it’s all said and done, the story jumps ahead to present-day. Fans have picked apart theNorth Yankton section of the gamein search of Easter eggs and clues, finding an alien frozen beneath the river in the process. However, the last detail pointed out about the prologue isn’t an Easter egg, but rather just a depressing fact about the game.
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TheGTA 5prologue missiontakes place nine years before the main game. As pointed out by Reddit user donqon, that’s equivalent to how old theGrand Theft Auto 5game is today.GTA 5first released on May 22, 2025 for PS3 and Xbox 360, and so it recently turned nine years old itself. Besides serving as a grim reminder of the passing of time, it also puts into perspective just how long fans have been waiting to playGrand Theft Auto 6.
Unfortunately forGTAfans who are anxious to finally playGrand Theft Auto 6, they likely have to wait a few more years yet. A reputable insider has said that theGrand Theft Auto 6release window is 2024 or 2025, meaning fans have to wait at least two to three more years to play the game. This is unsurprising, considering the project was just finally confirmed to be in development earlier this year, but it may still be disappointing for those that have waited such a long time for a newGTAexperience.
Fans of Rockstar Games' work may be disappointed in the general lack of new game releases from the studio sinceGTA 5’s 2013 launch. There was a time when Rockstar released brand-new games on a regular basis, but as game development has become more demanding and Rockstar’s standards have increased, its output has been significantly slower. The only full-scale, brand-new release from Rockstar in the time betweenGrand Theft Auto 5launched and now was2018’sRed Dead Redemption 2.
There was a chance that themassiveGrand Theft Auto 6hackcould have thrown a wrench in Rockstar’s development plans, but the company has said that the leak won’t impact the game’s development. Assuming everything goes smoothly,Grand Theft Autoplayers should get to play the game within the next few years or so.
