User blog comment:Tony 1998/Grand Theft Auto V: coming out this year??/@comment-2099017-20120802161826

Maybe. Maybe not. We'll have to see. But I think that it will come out next year than this year. If Rockstar released it during the holiday season (which alot of other games will be released around that time like Halo 4, Medal of Honor: Warfighter and Call of Duty: Black Ops II), that would ruin the sales of the game. Rockstar would probably want to wait till after the holiday season so the game can sell very good.

Plus, do you notice that if GTA V is released next year, then that would make it the second GTA game and third Rockstar game to be set in 2013. The first GTA game would be GTA 2 and the other game from Rockstar would be Manhunt 2.