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GTA VI won't launch on PC (www.businesswire.com)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by nave@lemmy.zip to c/gaming@beehaw.org
 

Grand Theft Auto VI is coming to PlayStation® 5 computer entertainment systems and Xbox Series X|S games and entertainment systems in 2025.

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[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Fear of piracy, or demanded by manufacturers?

[–] Essence_of_Meh@fedia.io 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Two main reasons I can think of:

  • focus on polishing each version (less hardware variety on consols to deal with)
  • easy way to get people to double dip

Most likely both.

[–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Gotta milk this one for 10 years too so yeah can’t release it all at once that would be silly.

[–] MisterFeeny@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

It'll prolly be more like 25 years between 6 and 7. There is definitely some manner of exponential curve to GTA release dates.

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

And even milk the console manufacturers maybe?

Fine with me, as long as the PC version is stable patched on release.

[–] 0xtero@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Smaller marketshare,
Pretty sure they'd release mobiile > console > PC if they could get away with it.

The PC release will be a year or so after to get people to double dip.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is console bigger than PC? This is the first thing I've found and it suggests PC is around 20% bigger and projected to stay bigger than the console market.

[–] 0xtero@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

There's thousand different stats around this, but generally most analysts place consoles slightly ahead of PC with stronger growth potential, but it depends a bit where in the generation cycle they do their measurements.

Most of this has been overshadowed by mobile gaming though.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago

Rockstars been a console focused developer forever. PC is always an afterthought.