Final week, we speculated about whether or not or not Grand Theft Auto 6 will launch on PC on the identical day as consoles. Most of us predicted that Rockstar will as soon as once more wait a 12 months or so after the console launch date earlier than dropping the PC model, and I remorse to report that we had been in all probability proper.
The primary GTA 6 trailer, above, solely tells us that Rockstar’s subsequent open world crime spree is coming in 2025, with no platforms listed, however in a press launch, Take-Two introduced that GTA 6 will launch on PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S. There is not any point out of the PC within the press launch, which means that Rockstar will as soon as once more maintain the PC model for a later date prefer it did with Crimson Useless Redemption 2.
Requested for touch upon the standing of a PC launch, Rockstar instructed us that the entire data presently out there is within the assertion.
I used to be one of many few who thought Rockstar would get with the instances and quit on this foolish timed console exclusivity recreation. It feels awfully old school to maintain GTA’s PC viewers ready. It is lots of people, together with an infinite viewers in China that accesses Steam’s worldwide model by way of VPN, and it is also quite a lot of influential folks, just like the GTA On-line roleplayers who’ve been trendsetting on Twitch for years.
However, as proof that Rockstar would keep on with its previous methods, others pointed to its previous skirmishes with modders (just like the Scorching Espresso scandal) and its profitable custom of getting folks to purchase video games twice. I believe they had been in all probability proper. Rockstar’s seen some high-level personnel modifications previously decade, however Rockstar’s nonetheless Rockstar.
And if any recreation can get away with getting folks to cave and purchase a console model, or grit their tooth for a 12 months ready, it is GTA. It is one of many few legacy singleplayer mega-series that feels as massive because it did a decade in the past. Simply an hour in, there are over half-a-million views on the trailer. You aren’t getting that type of response for something lower than a brand new Zelda.
GTA 6 is over a 12 months away, so it is attainable that Rockstar will resolve at the moment that, hey, possibly a simultaneous PC launch is not such a nasty concept. Or possibly it should shrink the standard hole between the console and PC releases. However given the precedent, the press launch’s whole avoidance of the topic of a PC model appears to me like a fairly clear assertion that we should not anticipate to play GTA 6 on PC in 2025.