Rockstar Is Ready to Take the Grand Theft Auto Series Outside the US

“Never say never, but there’s still so much to explore in America.”

Rockstar Games has not ruled out setting a future Grand Theft Auto game outside the US. But Rob Nelson, one of the lead developers of GTA VI, says the studio still has plenty of ideas for exploring its fictional version of America.

In an interview with The Guardian, Nelson was asked whether Rockstar could ever return to a setting outside the United States. He did not rule it out, but suggested that such a change probably would not happen soon.

Nelson said the version of the US depicted in Grand Theft Auto is so different from the real country that even Americans cannot fully identify with it. He believes all players are outsiders in that fictional world in some sense, regardless of where they live.