Rockstar Says GTA 6 Leaks Are No Big Deal
Rockstar is scrambling to find the source of 11 leaked clips of GTA 6 that appeared over six days, just days before the Netflix‑exclusive reveal.
Former Rockstar developer Obbe Vermeij, who worked on every GTA title from 2001 to 2010, says the leaks are essentially a “nothing burger.”
In a post on X, Vermeij urged calm, calling the footage a “tiny blip” for a game expected to sell for more than a decade, much like GTA 5.
The Cyberleek situation, Vermeij says, is “far less consequential” when compared to the biggest “nightmare” he witnessed during his Rockstar tenure: the infamous Hot Coffee incident.
In 2005, the discovery that GTA: San Andreas had shipped with code for a sex minigame that could be enabled through unofficial modification earned the game an Adult Only re-rating from the ESRB. In the ensuing PR firestorm, retailers pulled San Andreas from store shelves until an updated version could be issued, leading to an estimated $50 million revenue loss in 2005 and a $20 million class action settlement in 2009.
Measured against that level of brand damage, Vermeij said in a response to another X user that he figures “there won’t be much damage if any” from the GTA 6 leaks.
“That would suck,” he said, “but people will still play it.”