By Ray Ampoloquio · Oct 13, 2026 Skill Issue's Cyberpunk 2077 style GTA 6 launch is satire, while Rockstar's delays, polish statements and QA hiring make it look unlikely.

What if Grand Theft Auto VI launched the way Cyberpunk 2077 did in 2020? A creator called Skill Issue answers it by splicing classic Cyberpunk launch bugs into official GTA 6 trailer footage, T-posing pedestrians, invisible cars, characters sinking through the map, physics having a complete breakdown and pretty much everything that made CD Projekt RED's most recent game the butt of jokes for the entire duration of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is very funny if only because the signs so far suggest the actual game is unlikely to release in this state.

The edit also works because Cyberpunk 2077 has become a meme at this point. You do not need a caption to know what you are watching. Everyone who followed games in December 2020 remembers the Cyberpunk rollout, the glitch compilations, the refunds, the game pulled from the PlayStation Store for months and a game that pretty much single-handedly forced the entire video game industry to stop pushing incomplete games out the door for the sake of taking advantage of the holiday season.

Drop those same bugs onto Jason and Lucia and the brain fills in the disaster on its own.

However, Rockstar Games has spent years building the opposite reputation. " Take-Two Interactive boss Strauss Zelnick has said much the same, backing the delay as Rockstar seeking perfection and describing the target as a polished, bug-free launch . Rockstar will never release games to meet deadlines .

It ships when it is ready, even if it might reportedly come at the expense of potential crunch .

With that said, an ex-Rockstar developer recently estimated the game was 80 to 90 percent done and likely content-complete, with testing and polish left. The studio has also been expanding its QA team . We have even compared GTA 6 's long road against Cyberpunk's shorter one , where a compressed final stretch showed in the results.

None of that guarantees a spotless launch, since no game this size ships without a few rough edges, but it is the opposite of the corner-cutting that sank Cyberpunk at release.

To be fair to CD Projekt Red, the Cyberpunk story did not end in 2020. The studio spent years patching the game, overhauled it, won a lot of players back and even earned a well-received expansion. The point of the joke is not that Cyberpunk is bad now.

It is that a broken launch is the thing people remember, long after the fixes arrive. It's the kind of reputation hit Rockstar's repeated delays and polish statements suggest it wants to avoid.

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