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Flamekebab, do games w Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC
@Flamekebab@piefed.social avatar

I wonder if the next one will take so long that the world it satirises is long gone. Facebook being parodied in GTA V no longer makes much sense, for example

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

This game is set in Florida. It’s pretty evergreen. Especially given the political climate for the past 8 years

massive_bereavement,

Disney world and Maralago?

P00ptart,

Holy shit, I didn’t think of mar-a-fatso. I seriously hope you can storm that place.

sugar_in_your_tea,

I hope they have at least two cities like Miami (beaches and organized crime) and Orlando (Disney and big business). Could be cool to have a three like SA to add in either Daytona (racing and rednecks) or Tampa (ghetto Miami).

nyctre,

All I know about Tampa is a bunch of the early death metal bands are from there so I’m all for that!

lemmydividebyzero,

That’s not necessary. The top secret documents for the government heist are probably located in an unlocked toilet building next to the golf course.

sp3ctr4l, (edited )

… Untill Florida gets absolutely wiped out by a combo of its housing market and tourism economy simultaneously eating shit (this is currently occuring), and then also gets slammed by a, oh i dunno, a series of near record breaking hurricanes … in a record breaking short amount of time, and then can’t rebuild because FEMA either doesn’t exist or is massively underfunded.

Oh and way more people will die, and there will be way more property damage than there otherwise would be… becauase all the agencies and funding that went into tracking hurricanes just got cut to almoat nothing.

Its been … what, over a decade, between GTA V and 6’s planned releaae date?

I’d say that chances are actually quite good that within 10 years after 2026, Florida becomes essentially a mostly destroyed disaster zone, with maybe a few parts of semi-civilization… like a swampy version of the first Mad Max movie.

(For reference, GTA V is based on an amalgamation of LA, San Fran, San Diego, out into the sticks… oh and while we are in thr GTA V to GTA VI gap, a huge chunk of LA got burned to the ground, yay climate change!)

(To me, the challenge of GTA VI would be… how do you even fucking do parody anymore? The country has gone batshit insane during the game’s development, I will be amazed if they actually manage to work in the biting and underhanded social commentary that previous GTA games had… because it would be essentially impossible. My guess is it’ll have some parody and satire, but nowhere near as much as 4 or 5… and the story will basically just be about some cool badasses who are cool and badass and are getting their bag however they can because YOLO)

DoucheBagMcSwag, (edited )

After looking at the jokes featured in the leaks…it hasn’t aged a day.

Tap for spoilerConspiracy theory maggots / qAnnon think Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook is downloading your brain to China and the country of Finland doesn’t actually exist

Stillwater,

Why doesn’t Facebook make sense to parody anymore? It’s still out there

Flamekebab,
@Flamekebab@piefed.social avatar

The world's relationship with Facebook has changed a smidge since 2013.

It's still ripe for parody, but the elements of relevance aren't the same as they were.

HollowNaught, do games w Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC
@HollowNaught@lemmy.world avatar

I feel like you shouldn’t release a date if the game isn’t in ready for release. After releasing the date, all that should come is polish and minor bug fixing

sugar_in_your_tea, do games w Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC

Rockstar’s delay announcement may result in numerous other studios confirming 2025 releases for their own games. Earlier this year a Bloomberg report claimed that rival game publishers were waiting as long as possible to commit to their release dates for next Fall, because of GTA 6’s planned release.

Or they could, you know, make a game that rivals GTA VI. Come on Square Enix, make a Sleeping Dogs successor, I know you have it in you!

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

The developer that made Sleeping Dogs shut down, and Square Enix had so many misses that they sold off their western studios. You should keep an eye on MindsEye and Mafia: The Old Country though. I’ve been dying for a good crime story that isn’t Yakuza.

sugar_in_your_tea,

I would love it if they sold some of those IPs so another studio can run with them. We really don’t have a lot of Asian crime games, and those have a very different feel than western crime games.

Anyway, thanks for the recommendations! I’ve wishlisted them and will check them out when they launch. The mafia series is great, and MindsEye could be awesome if it’s done well.

ChapulinColorado,

The problem is game companies don’t make games for gamers, they make games for investors. Hoarding IPs and patents is what they do.

RampantParanoia2365,

So no sequel to that Guardians of the Galaxy game then? I really enjoyed that one.

It was so…
Metal?
Yeah…

lepinkainen, do games w Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC

GTA Online still brings a BILLION dollars every year.

The next GTA can’t be anything except 100% perfection and Rockstar isn’t in a hurry

TheFriar,

GTA Online still brings in a billion dollars every year. The next GTA will try to capitalize and expand on that, and cannot, then, be perfect.

Ftfy

Goronmon, do games w Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC

Man, development times are getting pretty crazy at this point. Hard to believe that we are starting to see decades between sequels to titles as a normal thing in the high end of the market.

It’s no wonder more games are aiming for games-as-a-service style models.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

Well, given the implosion in the industry due to live service games, that’s not really a solution either. The actual solution is seemingly to just make smaller games, but they’re not really interested in that, so they’ll go out of business the first time they have a game that doesn’t hit.

absquatulate, do games w Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC

So now can we please get the other games that were supposed to launch in autumn?

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

Oh yeah. Everyone’s off to the races now.

dvlsg,
@dvlsg@lemmy.world avatar

This must mean that horizon is going to launch its next game in May 2026.

swampwitch, do games w Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC

I tend to prefer bigger games delay purely so they don’t release as buggy messes (hello, Cyberpunk 2077).

Hoping they use that time to refine what they have and maybe even have it ported to PC for release.

P00ptart,

I can’t see that being an issue with GTA. It’s far too big to fuck up like that, which is why there’s a delay.

miguel, do games w Game preservationists say Switch 2 Game-Key Cards are ‘disheartening’ but inevitable
@miguel@fedia.io avatar

Hardly inevitable. I'm broke af, the economy is collapsing, so not spending money on Nintendo is the easiest possible choice.
Literally not buying something you don't need is the easiest form of protest.

Mad__vegan,

You unpatriotic cuck /s (hopefully obvious)

miguel,
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LOL exactly :D

villainy, do games w Future of Giant Bomb website in doubt following prominent staff departures

Giant Bomb deserves more than a thread hanging off the Polygon story post. I don’t think it’s ever looked nearly this dire.

I don’t remember exactly how I stumbled across GB, but I think it came up randomly during TheSpeedGamers Final Fantasy marathon in 2009 (which was the inspiration for the first GDQ marathon in 2010). They weren’t necessarily the first to do the very personality-focused, video heavy, gaming coverage, but they definitely went at it the hardest and with the fewest fucks given about doing anything the “right” way. I’ve spent over 16 years now following the site and the people that have come through it, the Giant Bomb Extended Universe. I couldn’t possibly quantify the impact they’ve had on me over the years. It may not technically be the end but I don’t see a path forward from here.

Just gonna go be sad for a bit and watch the best content GB ever put out. That would be, obviously, Thursday Night Throwdown: Fortune Street (and part 2). <>

NeryK,
@NeryK@sh.itjust.works avatar

Giant Bomb deserves more than a thread hanging off the Polygon story post.

Agreed. Giant Bomb pioneered so much in games media, and for it to end like that is such a shame.

As far as I am concerned, the GB I loved was already struggling after Alex, Brad and Vinny left ; and it ended for good when Jeff Gerstmann was fired abruptly (again !). This news still saddens me however, and I wonder what will be the legacy of GB down the road.

FourGreenFields,

I don’t see a path forward from here.

Without knowing anything (beyond what’s said in the article) about Giant Bomb, I’d assume it’s the same path forward as when the F-word fucked up Gamepedia beyond all recognition. Find alternatives. In the case of Gamepedia other wiki hosting services, like Miraheze and wiki.gg, and more independently-hosted wikis. And some of the wiki.gg admins were Gamepedia admins, as far as I’m aware - it sounds like a similar restart may well end up being the case here too.

It sucks, especially because the F-word is good at search-engine optimisation, but it’s not the end.

minimalfootprint, do games w Future of Giant Bomb website in doubt following prominent staff departures

Damn, for me Jeff, Dan and Mitch/Mike formed the new nucleus and were quite entertaining.

Usually I am open to change, when it comes from a creative directive. However Giant Bomb seems increasingly to be jerked around by corporate interests in faster intervals. I have doubt’s that GB will keep its identity and not just be a name.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

It might end up just being a name for game guides, which sucks, but that core nucleus will still be doing Blight Club in some capacity, and Jeff will still do his news show. I think the same thing will live on by another name, just like the old school lives on in Next Lander and Gerstmann’s solo thing.

newthrowaway20, do games w Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC

So to all those other publishers who have already pushed their games release date out to avoid GTA6, you got a new date to avoid.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

At least they know what this one is so they can plan better.

arakhis_, do games w Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC
@arakhis_@feddit.org avatar

they saw what happened with the world over the last year and realized the satire theyve been making is all outdated

whats supposed to be comedic fiction of idiocracy already became basis of reality so the jokes need to be revisioned to double down once more

arakhis_, do games w Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC
@arakhis_@feddit.org avatar

2027 for non casuals (scummy delayed pc release)

missingno, do games w Game preservationists say Switch 2 Game-Key Cards are ‘disheartening’ but inevitable
@missingno@fedia.io avatar

I thought Game Key Cards, while not something I would ever buy, weren't the end of the world if they were just meant to replace the existing practice of code-in-a-box for games that won't fit on a cart. It's actually less bad than that, so I didn't get out my pitchfork just yet.

But the sheer number of games being released in this format is alarming. Code-in-a-box was rare, this is looking like it's outnumbering proper physical games. And many of these games don't even make sense to be key cards, they can fit just fine on a cart. There are ports of Switch 1 games that already fit on Switch 1 carts in here!

What the hell is happening?

suburban_hillbilly,

Greed

inclementimmigrant,

Shareholder value and control.

steal_your_face, (edited )
@steal_your_face@lemmy.ml avatar

Nintendo is prob charging companies more for storage on game carts than they did for switch 1. That’s my guess at least.

CidVicious,
@CidVicious@sh.itjust.works avatar

Switch carts are proprietary and expensive. Rumor has it that 64 GB is the smallest cart you can buy for the switch 2. And corporations will do anything to save a buck.

missingno,
@missingno@fedia.io avatar

64GB is the maximum cart size, not minimum.

CallateCoyote,
@CallateCoyote@lemmy.world avatar

I’m hoping that at least Nintendo will release their full games on the card. The truth is I’m probably not buying many third party games on Switch that aren’t exclusives.

De_Narm,

Afaik, they are. It’s just that third party developers would need to optimize their file sizes heavily for the great pay off of reducing their profit margin. They already didn’t want to do that for the Switch and Nintendo now enables them to not do it to incentivize more ports.

At least in Japan, I think, every 1st party game comes on the cartridge, pretty much every third party game except for Cyberpunk comes as a code.

prole,

Same. I have no plans to even buy one until I see what their first party offerings end up being

Goretantath, do games w Game preservationists say Switch 2 Game-Key Cards are ‘disheartening’ but inevitable

Not inevitable if people fought back… but people keep telling companies this shit is ok by paying them to screw everyone over. Companies used to have to replace your bugged cartridge with a patched one or risk backlash and profit losses.

SnotFlickerman,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Remember when people lost their shit over an Xbox console being all digital distribution and no ability to sell used games like 10 years ago maybe?

kotaku.com/that-xbox-one-reveal-sure-was-a-disast…

Nintendo fans are fucking masochists.

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  • steal_your_face,
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    I think the Nintendo game key cards are tied to the physical game cards so they can be sold or transferred to new owners.

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  • ms_lane,

    Nintendo also sells all their games digital and you can’t transfer those.

    Yet.

    They’ve advertised Virtual Game Cards as a value-added feature to let your friends borrow games, but I’d bet good money they built out that infrastructure to comply with the potential for the EU to require used sales on digital.

    4am,

    Couple things there.

    There are Virtual Game Cards, purchased and downloaded digitally from the eShop. These can now be traded, sold, gifted, loaned, etc. to other friends, which was not previously possible. (This could possibly require an NSO subscription, but I’m not clear if that’s true at all.)

    There are physical game cartridges, which contain the actual game on them, and (from what I’ve heard) most games will be distributed this way.

    Then, there are also physical carts that contain only the virtual game license file, thus that you have to possess the physical cart in order to download or play the game. Apparently, there are Switch 1 games like this already, but they are rare.

    With the introduction of Virtual Game Cards, it is no longer possible (even on Switch 1) to play more than one copy of a game online at the same time, even with a min NSO Family subscription.

    prole,

    But it does allow you to transfer/sell games purchased from the eShop. That seems good to me, no?

    dual_sport_dork, (edited )
    @dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world avatar

    People also lost their shit over the PSP Go being digital distro only in a physical handheld console, and lost their shit so hard that Sony of all people walked it back with the Vita and built cartridges back into the spec. (And it became retroactively excusable once it was discovered how easily the PSP/Go could be hacked, and suddenly the Go was the desirable model for emulation and, er, backups. But that’s neither here nor there. Under its intended use, within its original lifespan, it was a stupid idea.)

    If you ask me the entire point of a game console is to be a dedicated platform that you stick games in and it always works. If I wanted to fuck around with downloadable only content, games that are only keycodes, patches, day 1 DLC, always-online DRM, and the inevitable day the servers all go dark I’d just game on PC. Which, come to think of it, in these modern times is exactly what I do anyway. I have game systems dating all the way back to the Atari VCS which I can to this very day if I feel like it slap a cartridge or disk in and they play. To me, there is immense value in that. Without that, there’s really no need for the “real hardware experience” for me. I can just emulate if any title comes out that I truly give enough of a shit about that I must play it. Anything else is just selling you a rental, but at full price. I find that immensely distasteful.

    So I have zero interest in the Switch 2, and thus it will be the first Nintendo console in history I don’t own, or aim to own (I do not have a Virtual Boy, much to my shame and embarrassment.) I imagine I’m not the only one. Nintendo’s been trying very hard to lose the plot, which for a company as profitable and famous as they are takes a real concerted effort. Congratulations to them, then, if that’s the goal – What we are witnessing here is very possibly the beginning of the end for big N.

    AlligatorBlizzard,

    I do not have a Virtual Boy, much to my shame and embarrassment.

    Yes, but you do own the best console for playing Virtual Boy games, the 3DS. Red Viper is really good now.

    dual_sport_dork,
    @dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world avatar

    And I also have a VR headset and VirtualBoyGo if I really feel like giving myself an authentic headache.

    samus12345,

    Nintendo sucks and all, but Xbox wanted the One to not work at all unless it was online.

    emb, (edited )

    Not to defend Nintendo much here, but the situation with game-key-cards is at least better than that. You can freely trade, give away, resell them like any physical cart.

    It’s a step up from digital in terms of freedom, but a step down in convenience (cart has to be in the system).

    Compared to real, physical, data-on-the-cart media though, these are a definite downgrade.

    4am,

    Someday we’ll find out that all the Switch 2s actually peer together and create a blockchain to track ownership

    inclementimmigrant,

    Consumers lost that fight decades ago with horse armor.

    CidVicious,
    @CidVicious@sh.itjust.works avatar

    I’m willing to bet that 95% of their customers do not have an issue with this. Probably the majority don’t even realize that someone could have an issue with this. People are already very used to having to do big downloads with games and a lot of switch 1 games were already requiring half of the game to be downloaded due to large cart costs. Also tbh I don’t think it’s really a preservation issue as long as piracy exists.

    pycorax,

    I’m willing to bet that the majority of people don’t really care about this. If they did, you’d see GoG do wildly better than Steam does. People like DRM and the convenience with having your library digitally available with the ease of installation, they just don’t like badly implemented DRM.

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