Release Date Rumors A release calendar leaked by "a major UK High Street retailer" suggests an Autumn 2012 release window.Sterne Agee financial analyst group predicts that GTA V will arrive in early 2013 to allow Rockstar extra time to polish the game.A picture of a flyer from Canadian retailer Future Shop (taken by IGN reader Antonio LaRosa displays a release window of Winter 2012. A listing on GameStop's UK site shows a 01/03/2013 release date. Machinima.com director Olli43 uploaded a video to Youtube with a picture he had taken at his local Blockbuster. He searched for Grand Theft Auto V in the catalog of the store and the release date was set to 10/26/2012:
Ex-Rockstar Information Leak An Examiner article publicized a large chunk of GTA5-related rumors, stating the following: "It has recently been brought to our attention that a poster over on the official GameSpot forums have posted a massive list of unreleased information about the future title, Grand Theft Auto V. Through a post, that has since been deleted by the forum moderators over on the GameSpot forum, along with the poster, a user by the name of Gloggle has revealed that he is a friend of an ex-RockStar employee that was fired for misconduct. Now, it seems that the ex-RockStar employee now has the intentions of leaking information on GTA V." 1. The protagonist will be one character, and one character alone. His name is (as some rumours said) Albert De Silva. He's a half hispanic man who was once part of a crime family in Vice City. He decided to settle down and have kids in Los Santos. He has one son called Kevin De Silva who is your stereotypical CoD player. He's lazy, useless and shouts racial abuse online and is really into FPS games. Kevin does admire his Dad though. 2. Multiplayer will hold 32 people on the Xbox and PS3. I wasn't told how many were able to be on the PC. Just like in RDR, players will be able to form Gangs. These gangs are not ranked through XP anymore, but via Reputation. Instead of gang hideouts, you can do jobs that range from robbing a launderette to breaking into a military base and stealing state-of-the-art weaponary. The Gang leader has much more control over his or her gang by being able to rank members of their gang and setting more specific objectives to specific members of their gang. Gangs can have their own terratory but this only applies to areas inside the city of Los Santos. 3. The map is about 5x as large as the GTA IV map and the City of Los Santos takes up just under half of this area (so it's a bit bigger than 2 GTA IV Liberty Cities). The map is (like most GTAs) seperated into three different sections. 4. Planes are flyable, they range from World War 2 fighter planes to Private Jets. 5. Cars and guns are customisable to an extent, for example, you can customise a gun to have a supressor on it and you can install nitrous into cars.
Here's Some Stuff You Might Like: 1. The protagonist is the "rich guy" from the GTA V debut trailer. You get to learn more about this man in the second when he talks about his troubles. You only see the protagonist twice in the trailer. First time is the side of his face and second time is when he is driving a Deceptor (Audi R8). The people robbing the jewellery store are just with the protagonist. He is driving the van ready to get away. 2. Gunfights are more realistic. When you are shooting a gun out of a window of a car, depending on how fast it's going you will have troubles aiming due to shaking cameras. 3. The game is due in May 2013. A more specific date has not been decided because the game is still needing 6 months to be fully developed. They will have a playable demo at E3. 4. Police chases are now way more than either running or driving. Depending on how wanted you are, police may bring out riot shields and flash bangs. 5. When someone reaches 4 star wanted level, there will be a radio warning on some stations. 6. Radio stations now do traffic reports that are actually correct. So if you don't know what route to take, you can check the traffic reports on your phone or the radio. 7. The in-game TV now has many more channels. 8. The protagonist DOES NOT die unlike in Red Dead Redemption and L.A. Noire. (Contains Spoilers !!) 9. The underworld actually has a working economy that you can contribute to by buying and selling drugs, weapons and illegal cars in single player. 10. The protagonist can take drugs which will have some effects. But smoking weed on the street walk will lead to getting a one star wanted level. 11. Police cars will go after you if you're obviously breaking the speed limit. Having high speed crashes will also damage your health.
Grand Theft Auto V's Economic Estimates Could Force a Release By March 2013 If Take-Two's latest numbers are any indication, Grand Theft Auto fans could be committing felonies and carjacking Infernuses (Infernusi?) around the end of the first fiscal quarter of 2013. Take-Two Interactive released its fourth quarter and 2012 fiscal year reports Tuesday with a few release dates and delay notes sprinkled in between the numbers. Grand Theft Auto V, however, had a "TBA" label in the company's future title lineup. GameSpot talked with some financial and economic analysts who collectively put a March 2013 maximum release date for Rockstar Games' new entry in the GTA franchise. The report said that even though Take-Two saw some strong "contributions" from titles such as L.A. Noire, NBA 2K12, GTA, Red Dead Redemption and Duke Nukem Forever, its net revenue dropped from $1,138.9 million by the end of March 2011 to just $825.8 million by the end of March of 2012. The fourth fiscal quarter of 2012 also saw a drop from $182.3 million to $148.1 million. Take-Two will need a big score if it doesn't want to see a repeat in its annual fiscal report, and Rockstar can provide the lift if it can get the next GTA title out by the end of the fiscal year. Wedbush Securities' Michael Pachter said he expects Rockstar to bring in a whopping $1.1 billion for Take-Two's next fiscal year thanks to sales of GTA V, Max Payne 3's disc and downloads and Rockstar catalog sales. GTA V alone is expected to bring in an impressive $650 million. Other analysts agreed with the assessment and put a worst case scenario release date at March of 2013 for the game's release based on the figures. Gamespot: Grand Theft Auto V Due by End of March 2013
