Analyst Mike Hickey of Janco Partners has claimed that Rockstar will grind the internet to a halt prior to E3 with the announcement of Grand Theft Auto 5.

Hickey made the claims via a note and followed it up with the following statement

“There is building suspension for a pre-E3 GTA V announcement, although we expect nothing from Rockstar at this year’s official E3 event,” he also added “We think the next iteration of GTA for console can significantly outsell its predecessor, reflecting on the sales acceleration of the prior cycle GTA console iterations, an accelerating core gamer installed base, and the most talented / motivated development team in the world, in our view,”

As expected Take Two and Rockstar have been tight lipped when it comes to the subject of the next GTA and there fondness to confuse the press and try and get them off their tracks hasn’t gone unnoticed, for example back in September 2009 Take Two president Strauss Zenick gave a utterly confusing comment on the subject of announcements saying the following

“We’re not going to announce it. We’re not going to announce when we’re going to announce it. And we’re not going to announce the strategy about announcing it or about when we’re going to announce it either, or about the announcement strategy surrounding the announcement of the strategy.”

The only positive news out of Rockstar on the subject of the next GTA came in the form of Rockstar co-president Dan Houser claiming they were still yet to think of main characters and a main setting for the game before they went on to do anything.

All eyes are set towards Los Angeles Convention center on June15th to 17^th for this years E3