GTA 6's console-only launch reminds me of how much I despise console exclusivity - is it worth waiting years for PC ports?
Timed exclusives are a poison...
To the title question: Yes.
I won't bother buying a console just for one game.
how are so many of you forgetting that Rockstar titles are always launched first as console exclusives? My guess is they're just trying to raise as much money as possible. it will get a PC launch later
Not me! I've never paid enough attention to rockstar to have realized they were stuck in the 2000s :(
Besides you don't wanna buy it at release
Haven't any of these people learned?
yea
Honestly, I, personally, don’t think it is worth to purchase a console just for the game. Thus waiting is worth it.
Rumor goes that the game will be €100 on launch. So €550 for console and €100 for one game. That’s crazy.
Add to that a monthly subscription just to play online. Even crazier.
100 bucks for a game, lmao.
Surprised they didn't skip the middle man and made it subscription only already
Tbh it's fair if the quality and the (useful) amount of €/h of entertainment fits.
If it's 75% go drive here, go deliver there from a story going for 100h and maybe 25% of it is actually exciting contetn, I'll pass and wait for the >50% off.
Steamdeck is a console so port it.
Just wait. It’ll be the same as the last one with a slightly different city.
The city shape will be the same, the signs will be different
You’re probably better off playing through San Andreas again.
Consoles shape how games are played because of their controllers, and how we they are optimized; the aim is still 30-60 fps ffs...
We'd all be better off with PC only. Fuck consoles!
That’s OS based not device
PC Master Race ✊
Yeah that was never "funny" but it's way less funny now nazis are actually in power again.
If you weren't 100% certain that GTA6 would release as a console exclusive at launch initially, you're an idiot. This is how Rockstar has launched every game since the Xbox 360. Furthermore, I can assure you the PC release will come about a year later, and will be the buggiest mess ever launched for the first month.
RDR2 pc release was 13 months later and GTA5 pc release 17 months later. I wouldn’t be surprised if it takes at least 2 years with GTA6.
Probably not because GTA6 is planned to release on pc so they will do most of the work beforehand and the xbox is basically a glorified stripped down windows OS.
Well, my initial reaction was "What year is it?". As far as I'm aware, this practice has largely fallen out of favor in the industry. And it's been more than a decade since the last GTA release, so their stance might have changed in a similar vein, or at least their management would have likely changed.
See RDR2: No.
And NOTHING HAS CHANGED in twenty years - yeah? Not a fucking thing that should shift how they release games. Consoles are still sooo different from PCs, with their AMD x64 CPUs and AMD RDNA GPUs.
What is this, 2005? No one should be losing sleep over GTA6. Just more iterating over the same thing that surely was awesome more than 20 years ago, but today? They are such a victim of their own success, they can no longer afford to take the risks required to continue to innovate.
Consoles are glorified DRM machines so it's no wonder, really.
Well that and extremely standardized platforms, with all the benefits that entails.
That just means I'll buy GOTY edition for $5 years later if I buy it at all lol
I'll buy it when but drops to $19.99. probably Steam summer sale 2028.
Yup. This is how I treat exclusives.
I'll buy it for $0 when the PS5 gets emulation in Linux, just like Bloodborne
If you don't already have a console it isn't worth buying. If it ever gets ported to PC you should wait a year or two for all the inevitable bugs to get worked out and possibly an upscale mod as well.
If you can't wait that long then I've a hell of a real estate deal for you where that money would be better spent.
GTA games always get ported to PC. I don't understand why people think that VI will be any different. Y'all do this with every new release.
We'll be playing this game on PC by Q4 2026, spring 2027 at the very latest.
How do imbeciles of this calibre get jobs as writers for a large public is beyond me. The editor who approved this is very much to blame too. This level of trash is easily replaced by AI, don't complain when you get replaced when the only thing you produce is indistinguishable from AI generated slop to rage bait some nerds.
PS: Donate to Raymond, uBlock origin is a gift to humanity.
I think I will never buy a console. They aren't as expensive as good gaming PCs, but way to limited in their capabilities for me. Modding is very cool in many games, and almost never possible on consoles. In addition, waiting a bit after the release is also often a good idea, since bugs will be fixed and if the game is actually shit, you will know that before buying
I honestly got tired of the "Xbox vs. PlayStation" BS they were pushing well over a decade ago. I actually bought a Nintendo Wii during that generation's console war, because Nintendo was the only company just doing their own thing and not trying to compete for best graphics, processing power, etc.
But Nintendo consoles were limited in themselves. Nintendo doesn't like to share their properties, and they very rarely port classics to modern systems. So if my Wii ever broke, the only way I could play my games again was to find another Wii. Even if they stopped making them; is have to find a second-hand shop and buy a used console.
I almost gave up on the gaming world, until I found Steam. Any games I buy there stay in my library forever, even if they're removed from the store. And they emulate the original supporting hardware, so even classic games are still playable on a modern Windows 11 PC.
Thanks to Steam, I have a renewed interest in gaming and have built up a library of nearly 4,000 games over the last decade and a half.
I don't bother with console gaming anymore. If I miss that style of gaming, I have a Razer controller plugged into my computer that I can use instead of my keyboard and mouse. If a game is exclusive to console... Oh well, maybe I'll catch it if/when it ports to PC. But until it does, that's a lost sale for that developer/publisher. I'm not going to feed the exclusivity BS by buying games while they're only available on one device.
I've been saying, I'd really like to play Alan Wake II, but as long as it's an Epic Games exclusive, I can't buy it. If they want my money, they'll have to allow it on Steam too. And since it's owned by Epic Games, not just published by them, it's gonna stay exclusive. So I guess I'll never get to play that game. I don't agree with Epic Games' predatory practices, so I will never give them a penny of my money.
I love steam for their contributions to the linux community.
That said, accusing Epic of predatory practices while ignoring Valve's clear gambling problem with minors for CS content and absolutely insane 30% cut, is the most distilled form of brain rot I've read on this platform in a while.
Seen worse brainrot in some parts here.
This is another of the benefits of patient gaming, avoiding the delays caused by the double-dip fishing Rockstar does with their games. For me, the last three years' release schedules have been so stacked that they don't leave much room for temptation or frustration with delays. I've always got something to play.
I understand the frustration for the diehard GTA fans, but I would have figured those people moved to console if they weren't already.
GTAVI will not be just a console exclusive, probably it will become an Epic Store exclusive on PC. There could be tons of useless discussion about what companies shoud or should not do; but in the end, companies exist only to the extend of their customer's money. T2 strategy paid off, becouse their customer bougt GTAV repetedtly when came on PS3 generation, then PS4, then PS4Pro, then Epic Store and etc. etc.They sold one single AAA multiple time with relatively low effort (definetly not the cost of this many AAA games): their growth was done on their customer's stupidity, so they now employ the same exact stratgy that works on stupid people... and make money.
Let's not ignore the quality of the game itself. CDPR talked big but the best they could muster was gtaIII levels of world dynamics and crowd behaviour. T2 gets away with it because like it or not, gtaV is one of the best games ever made, period!
Otoh, Straus Zelnick deserves to be the middle guy in a human centipede with Kotic at the ass tho.