The next GTA is likely to be called "Grand Theft Auto V" (or "Grand Theft Auto 5"). In the past, some titles have taken the form of Grand Theft Auto followed by the name of the setting (e.g. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas) but this is because Vice City and San Andreas formed a trilogy with GTA III, and both were essentially expansions of the GTA III story. Former CEO of Rockstar Games Terry Donovan admitted that this was the plan from the start: "It was really important for us to do this trilogy. A fictional New York in a contemporary setting, Miami in the '80s, and a '90s Cali - that was the trilogy. That was the plan from a long time ago," he told Game Informer.
There has been no indication that GTA IV will be the same, however. Rockstar's Dan Houser told the Official PlayStation Magazine in 2007 (about a year before GTA IV's release) that they'd yet to make up their minds, saying: "To be honest with you, we haven't yet figured out if this [GTA IV] is going to be leading onto another bunch of games or not. We are just focusing on this at the moment."
Estimated Release Date
Rockstar North has been busy with several projects in 2010. They made a large contribution to Red Dead Redemption, and they're also currently working on a new PS3 title called Agent. Since Agent has been announced and GTA V has not, one would assume that Agent is Rockstar's priority. We should get a clearer idea of when to expect GTA V once the release date for Agent is announced. GTA V should be released no later than 2012.
Platforms
It is likely that GTA V will be developed and released simultaneously for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The PC version will arrive 7-8 months after the console release, as has been the case in the past.
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