So a follow-up is less a question of "if" and more a question of "when".
Even though GTA V was released way back in 2013, Rockstar hasn't made any official mention of GTA 6 coming in the near the future.
Of course, that could be to do with the imminent release of another cross-platform epic, Red Dead Redemption 2.
Despite the prospect of a brand new wild west game, fans are clamouring for the next installment of the GTA series.
Here's everything we've managed to gleam so far about what Rockstar Games has planned for Grand Theft Auto VI.
Release date
Back in the day, Grand Theft Auto games would appear pretty regularly every couple of years. But, as the games grew and became the global event they are now, the time between entries got longer and longer.
There was half-a-decade between 2008's GTA 4 and 2013's GTA 5. If the company stuck to that timeline, we'd be seeing GTA 6 this year - which seems highly unliklely.
A recent report in Forbes suggested that the success of GTA Online mean that GTA 6 could be delayed indefinitely, as micro-transactions in the online game are earning the company more money than purchases of the offline version.
But still, if we're going to see any peek of GTA 6 this year, it could happen at the E3 games conference taking place in Los Angeles from June 12-14. Fingers crossed.
And of course we'll updated this article when we catch even the tiniest whiff of new GTA 6 news.
Gameplay
“We don’t know what GTA 6 will be, but we’ve got some ideas," he told Develop Magazine.
"GTA Online is the focus right now. There ain’t no rest between finishing 5 and then Online.
What is likely is that GTA will stick to the open-world gameplay it pioneered. The question is just how big that world could be.
"Of course at some point we would like to have one big world containing all our cities and let the player fly between them and revisit their favourite areas," said Benzies.
"In that context, re-imaging Vice City would be very interesting."
GTA 5 also introduced three main characters all with interlocking storylines. It was an ambitious decision for a game and something that Rockstar may well bring back for the next title.
Location
Despite being developed in Scotland, Grand Theft Auto is as American as apple pie. Only one entry in the series has not been set in the USA - that was a mission pack for the first game and was set in London in 1969.
According to an inside source speaking to Tech Radar - there were some plans to set GTA 6 in Tokyo, although it appears these have since been scrapped.
"Our source said that Rockstar was "serious" about the idea of making a Tokyo version around the time of GTA 3 and Vice City, however the road system was seen to be problematic and became one reason the idea was canned," reported the site.
Until further notice, we'd expect the next Grand Theft Auto to be US-based. Possibly a return to the series' Miami-inspired Vice City?
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