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== Development ==
Following the release of ''[[Grand Theft Auto V]]'' in September 2013, [[Rockstar North]] president [[Leslie Benzies]] said that the company had "some ideas" for the next entry in [[Grand Theft Auto|the series]].<ref name="Develop Benzies"/> In 2015, Rockstar Games president Leslie Benzies said: "We've got about 45 years worth of ideas we want to do. We don't know what GTA 6 will be, but we've got some ideas".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-02-02 |title=Rockstar confirms GTA 6 is coming, says 'we've got some ideas' |url=https://www.tweaktown.com/news/43346/rockstar-confirms-gta-6-coming-weve-ideas/index.html |access-date=2021-07-02 |website=TweakTown |language=en-US}}</ref> In March 2018, ''[[Inside Gaming|The Know]]'' reported that the game, code-named ''Project Americas'', would be set primarily in a reworked Vice City{{efn|Vice City is a fictional version of [[Miami]], previously featured in ''[[Grand Theft Auto (video game)|Grand Theft Auto]]'' (1997), and as the main setting of ''[[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]]'' (2002) and ''[[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories]]'' (2006).<ref name="Guardian Leak"/><ref name="GameSpot Protagonists"/><ref name="Dot Esports Leak"/>}} and partly in [[South America]], with a female playable protagonist.<ref name="VG247 Americas"/> In April 2020, ''[[Kotaku]]''{{'}}s [[Jason Schreier]] reported that the game was "early in development" as "a moderately sized release" that would expand over time, to avoid the [[Crunch (video games)|developer crunch]] of its predecessors.<ref name="Kotaku Changes"/> In July 2021, journalist Tom Henderson claimed that the game would be set in modern-day Vice City, that its map could evolve akin to ''[[Fortnite]]'', and that it would not release until 2025;<ref name="GameSpot Henderson"/><ref name="Kotaku Henderson"/> Schreier reaffirmed these reports.<ref name="TheGamer Henderson"/> Writing for ''[[Bloomberg News]]'' in July 2022, Schreier reported that the game, titled ''Grand Theft Auto VI'', entered development in 2014 and would feature a pair of protagonists influenced by [[Bonnie and Clyde]], including a [[Latinas|Latina]] woman; he claimed that the developers were cautiously subverting the series' trend of joking about [[marginalised groups]].<ref name="Bloomberg Culture"/><ref name="VGC Bloomberg"/>
In the years before its announcement, a new ''Grand Theft Auto'' game became highly anticipated,<ref name="Kotaku Anticipated"/><ref name="Independent Anticipated"/><ref name="Inverse Anticipated"/> and journalists noted that fans had become frustrated by [[Rockstar Games]]'s continued silence, particularly after they announced the re-release of ''Grand Theft Auto V'' in 2020.<ref name="IGN Frustrated"/><ref name="Kotaku Frustrated"/><ref name="GameSpot Frustrated"/> On 4 February 2022, Rockstar confirmed that development was "well underway", and that they hoped to "significantly move beyond what we have previously delivered".<ref name="IGN Development"/> In July, Rockstar announced that ''[[Red Dead Online]]'' would not receive more major updates as development resources were withdrawn to focus on the upcoming game;<ref name="VGC Expectations"/> industry sources stated that Rockstar reallocated resources after planned remasters of ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'' (2008) and ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'' (2010) were paused due to the backlash received by ''[[Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition]]'' (2021).<ref name="Kotaku Remasters"/> In August, [[Strauss Zelnick]], chief executive officer of Rockstar's parent company [[Take-Two Interactive]], said that Rockstar was "determined to once again set creative benchmarks for the series, our industry, and for all entertainment".<ref name="VGC Zelnick"/>
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