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Grand Theft Auto 5 was released in 2013. That was seven years ago, so surely we should be hearing something about GTA6 very soon, right? Think again. According to a new report from industry watchdog Jason Schreier, pre-production has only just begun on the next Grand Theft Auto game. “Rockstar’s next big project is still early in development,” Schreier reports. The intervening years have mostly been spent creating Red Dead Redemption 2 and its DLC. Even with all that time, AND multiple delays, Rockstar had to resort to massive crunch to finish RDR2 (a fact Jason exposed). What this points to is the current state of the AAA industry: a company of Rockstar’s size can only make one game at a time, it takes at least five years to make that singular game, and it can’t even make that singular game in all that time without a ridiculously tight schedule and overworked staff. In other words: AAA games have simply become too big. The cost is too great, both in