SNL turns GTA 6 vs Zelda into a Weekend Update showdown

GTA 6 isn't out yet and it already has its own SNL sketch.

Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update spent about six minutes on GTA 6 this weekend, staging a face-off between Jason Duval and Link, star of the Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake, over which game owns November. Confirmed

The sketch

Jason pitched GTA 6 as nonstop mayhem, waving a toy rocket launcher, GTABoom reports. Preview report The best line was his nickname for Zelda: "Too Many Puzzles, No Guns".

It's a sign of how far GTA 6 has crossed into mainstream culture. Most SNL viewers have never played a GTA game. The sketch assumes they know the name anyway.

November's other giant

The joke has a real basis: both games land in November, with GTA 6 out on November 19.

It's not the only TV nod this month: a new South Park episode also built a plot around a power cut wiping GTA 6 save data, GTABoom reports. Preview report

The full picture: this story is part of our guide, GTA 6 characters, which we keep up to date as news breaks.