GTA 6 Fan Spends 3 Months Charting the Planetary Positions for Every Rockstar Trailer Drop Since 2007 to Predict Trailer 3 Release Date

The hype for GTA 6 has led fans down immoderate excessively heavy rabbit holes successful an effort to foretell the game's selling cycle, astir precocious erstwhile Trailer 3 volition beryllium released. This latest instrumentality theory, though, comes nonstop from the stars.

GTA 6 is the astir anticipated amusement release, perchance of each time. Everything Rockstar Games has done has led to this, and it's expected to beryllium an earth-shattering occurrence if the developer tin conscionable its lofty expectations. Until its release, fans volition beryllium combing implicit each azygous screenshot and trailer that Rockstar puts out. So far, determination isn't overmuch to spell on, arsenic Rockstar has lone released 2 trailers and a fistful of screenshots implicit the people of 3 years, but things are astir to vigor up.

Marketing for GTA 6 is expected to footwear disconnected this summer, based connected comments from Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick. Now that model is accelerated approaching, fans are trying to foretell the nonstop time we'll get Trailer 3. To that end, Reddit idiosyncratic JalapenoPoppers24 has gone to bonzer lengths to carve retired a prediction by charting the planetary positions for each azygous Rockstar Games trailer released since 2007.

Really.

"I pulled the nonstop UTC timestamp of each 26 confirmed Rockstar uncover events from GTA IV onward (every trailer, each gameplay video, each motorboat trailer) and ran the geocentric ecliptic longitudes for each 9 classical bodies astatine each drop," JalapenoPoppers24 said successful their post, which has seen 2,200 upvotes.

"Pluto was successful Sagittarius for 24 of the 26 drops. Neptune has been successful Pisces for 19 of them. The Sun was successful Libra, Scorpio, oregon Taurus 58% of the clip erstwhile random would springiness you 25%. The Mercury-Sun conjunction (within 8°) showed up connected 8 of 26 drops which is simply a 3rd of the illustration for a configuration that occurs astir 11% of the clip successful immoderate fixed year."

JalapenoPoppers24 went connected to explicate that they were capable to usage each of this information to deduce that GTA 6 Trailer 3 volition get connected May 14 astatine 11am EDT.

"I scored each time from May 1 done August 31, 2026 against the humanities Rockstar fingerprint (Sun motion weight, Mercury motion weight, Saturn motion weight, Sun-Mercury conjunction, Mars-Saturn square, Thursday bonus)," the theorist continued, overmuch to the daze of others winthin the community.

"The azygous highest-scoring day successful the full 123-day model is Thursday, May 14, 2026, 12 retired of 16 points. Sun successful Taurus 23°, Mercury conjunct Sun wrong 4°, Saturn successful Aries, Venus successful Leo, Thursday (the time of 12 of 26 humanities drops). It’s besides precisely 1 week and 1 time aft the GTA 6 Trailer 2 anniversary, AND it falls connected the aforesaid calendar time (the 14th) arsenic GTA V Trailer 2 which Rockstar pushed from Nov 2 to Nov 14 successful 2012. The 14 isn’t a coincidence. Setting a calendar reminder. If T3 drops connected May 14 astatine 11am EDT I privation to beryllium remembered."

This remarkable, possibly somewhat demented level of probe was received warmly by astir GTA fans, galore of whom praised JalapenoPoppers24 for the effort, adjacent if it astir apt won't magnitude to anything. "Potentially the slightest deranged station we've had successful months," 1 idiosyncratic said. "Hey, buddy. Get maine time night's Powerball number. Please!" different pleaded. "What the GTA 6 waiting tin bash to a man," different laughed.

This isn't the archetypal clip GTA players looked to the stars for clues. Back successful 2023, fans utilized lunar phases to effort and foretell the GTA 6 Trailer 1 merchandise date. Against the odds, this did really output immoderate results. One of the predictions aligned with the time GTA 6's archetypal trailer was announced, nevertheless subsquent predictions utilizing this mentation were incorrect. Is Rockstar secretly communicating to america done the starry skies? It seems similar a agelong to presume that would beryllium existent of each azygous selling beat, but alien things person happened.

While we hold to find out, we've got plentifulness much connected GTA 6 to fuss over, including much predictions connected its price, and Zelnick's mentation for wherefore there's nary PC mentation connected time one. After a bid of delays. GTA 6 is acceptable to motorboat connected November 19, 2026 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S only.

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