GTA 6 was originally Project Americas and covered "big swaths" of country's north and south, Rockstar reveals, in interview tackling crunch, delays, and leaks

Eurogamer reports that Bloomberg’s interview with Rockstar traced GTA 6 back to the Project Americas codename and an early plan much broader than today’s version. The piece says a first research trip to Miami happened in 2015, the concept was later scaled down, and Rockstar also discussed delays, the 2022 unfinished-footage leak, and efforts to avoid repeating Red Dead Redemption 2-era crunch.

For fans, the useful takeaway is not that cut locations are coming back, but that Rockstar’s current setting is the result of years of narrowing and iteration. That context helps explain why every official trailer detail gets examined so closely.