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espiritu_p, do gaming w GTA VI won't launch on PC

Wasn't this the case with any other Rockstar game before?

DebatableRaccoon,

Yup which is why it isn’t newsworthy

ag_roberston_author,
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Still, it is completely insane. Outside of Sony exclusives they are the only large company that does this.

bermuda,

I’d rather they conserve resources to make a finished game on some platforms than an unfinished one on many. Look what happened when CDPR tried to release Cyberpunk on 9 platforms at once.

Zworf,

Well it was mainly screwed on consoles though, not on PC 😺

DebatableRaccoon,

They’ve made it known they don’t care for PC players in the past. It’s like that toxic ex that occasionally turns up at your door to gice you a pity fuck before slapping you in the face then leaving again

Zworf,

Ehmmmm your ex is weird.

DebatableRaccoon,

Luckily I wasn’t referring to my own though I did already know that for other reasons

altima_neo, do gaming w GTA VI won't launch on PC
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RIP PC gamers. We probably wont get it till 2027.

BruceTwarzen,

I hope people stop caring by then.

malchior, do gaming w GTA VI won't launch on PC

Usual two year wait, then the next gen console re-releases. There’s absolutely no need to purchase this new at full price unless you like the multiplayer, which for some reason some people do.

P1r4nha, do gaming w GTA VI won't launch on PC

Am I the only one old enough to remember that no 3D GTA ever released on PC first? This should have been expected.

aksdb,

Nope, you aren’t the only one.

It pisses me off each time, but I also expected it.

SternburgExport, do gaming w GTA VI won't launch on PC

Eh… Gives me enough time to find out if the game is actually worth it. And its not like I have a choice anyway since I dont have a current gen console and after my experience with the last gen thats not going to change.

Caligvla, do gaming w GTA VI won't launch on PC
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Yes it will, it will come to PC a year or two later in a “special edition” to make all the suckers to double dip.

scrubbles,
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Yep, sounds like they aren’t getting my money for a year

teawrecks,

Keyword “launch”

Blxter, do gaming w GTA VI won't launch on PC
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Well looks like I won’t be getting this game on release then I like to wait for bugs anyway

agegamon, do gaming w GTA VI won't launch on PC

Oh no. Anyway…

Seriously though, if it doesn’t come out on PC it probably means I won’t be missing anything for the first couple years it exists. I can’t recall an exclusive that I felt I needed right away.

Especially the old-school ones. Halo is just so much better on PC, especially now that I can torture my friends with brutal legendary difficulty mods for halo 3… Good times.

Kolanaki, do gaming w GTA VI won't launch on PC
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Unsurprising. Other than the first two, none of them have launched on PC at the same time as consoles.

pimento64, do gaming w GTA VI won't launch on PC

Fear of piracy, or demanded by manufacturers?

Essence_of_Meh,

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,

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

MisterFeeny,

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,

And even milk the console manufacturers maybe?

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

0xtero,

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,

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,

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

empireOfLove, do gaming w GTA VI won't launch on PC
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Damn guess I’ll just never buy it till the inevitable port then.

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Oh look, it’s EA’s gambling simulator disguised as a sports game again.

moipe, do games w Warner Bros. Games Launches Mortal Kombat 1

Wow they are really behind. My son and I just played Mortal Kombat 10 or 11 or something last year. Its going to take them ages to catch up.

someguy3, do games w Japan Youth Gamers Report 2023: Most Youth Gamers Play on Console (72%) Followed by Mobile (64%) and PC (15%)

Is mobile phones or gameboy/switch?

AnUnusualRelic, do games w Japan Youth Gamers Report 2023: Most Youth Gamers Play on Console (72%) Followed by Mobile (64%) and PC (15%)
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Having no idea what the ventilation is in other areas, I don’t know how it compares.

Also all those markets probably overlap a fair bit.

I used to think that the share was roughly ½ console and ½ PC, but not only does it probably vary wildly from place to place, I have nothing to base that feeling on anyway. It’s just that I never played on a console (until the deck, which only semi-counts) and never met anybody who did until quite late (which admittedly doesn’t really mean anything). Also I never really thought of phones as a gaming medium even though they clearly are.

And finally, now that a lot of titles are released on multiple platforms, does it matter all that much?

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