Dr. MooseDec 5, 2023

GTA 6 is likely to skip PC again and only launching on current gen consoles

https://lemmy.world/post/9166680

GTA 6 is likely to skip PC again and only launching on current gen consoles - Lemmy.World

I’m confused why Kotaku mentioning next gen in the title when Rockstar only commented on current generation PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.

Show threadzephyroths
PC releasing at the same time might just rob consoles of sales they could have. While I don’t support what they do, this is what I think the most logical reason
Dec 7, 2023 at 7:54amWeb
Show threadddkmanDec 7, 2023
In my view this is short sighted. A game with this many systems in it may actually need time to be decently optimised for keyboard and mouse inputs. When GTAV finally released it also carried a bunch of improvements. R* doesn’t want to sell games consoles. They don’t make any.
Show threadefstajasDec 7, 2023

It needs to be “optimized” for controller input in exactly the same way. They could’ve chosen to budget for this “optimization” (whatever that even means) pre-launch.

I think the most likely explanations are 1) larger player base on consoles, 2) Rockstar wants to get the release cash injection ASAP, and 3) staggering platform releases like this prolongs buzz and even leads to a bunch of people buying the game twice.