“GTA VI Is 90% Complete”: The Misquote That Changed What the Percentage Meant

What the chain actually shows

The viral sentence preserves the number but changes its object. Reporting documenting Schreier’s statement says the roughly 90 percent figure described confidence that the November 19 release date would hold, not a measurement of development completion. The mutation turns schedule confidence into a production-progress statistic.

TRACE records the subject swap explicitly and keeps a semantic before/after diff so readers can see that the number survived while the meaning did not.

What would settle this?

Source relationship ≠ motive.

TRACE measures wording, provenance and evidence. It does not claim that a relay intentionally distorted a statement. A low fidelity score means the later wording preserves less of the earlier claim’s meaning; it is not a character judgment.