Take Two, for some unusual purpose, don’t launch video games developed by Rockstar Video games day one on PC platforms alongside their console counterparts. This has remained true for a number of video games from the developer’s portfolio starting from Grand Theft Auto 4 to Grand Theft Auto 5 and from Purple Lifeless Redemption 1 to Purple Lifeless Redemption 2. In truth, Take Two launched Purple Lifeless Redemption 1 on PC final month after fourteen lengthy years (you’ll be able to learn our evaluation of the PC model right here).
Sadly, this follow will proceed within the case of Grand Theft Auto 6 with the writer opting to launch it solely on Xbox Sequence X, Xbox Sequence S and PlayStation 5. The dearth of a day one PC model launch is disappointing for a lot of PC avid gamers, particularly in an age the place virtually each main AAA title launches on PC digital platforms day one and alongside their console counterparts.
In a latest earnings name, Take-Two chairman and CEO Strauss Zelnick said that the PC platform is vital for them and creating help for it’s not sophisticated.
“If one platform diminishes in worth, there’s all the time one other one. So, we’re seeing nice progress in PC proper now, for instance. And I’ve been in a position to view that open codecs would proceed to develop. PC is an open format. I do suppose PC will proceed to be a an increasing number of vital a part of the console enterprise going ahead, and that isn’t sophisticated for us to help in any respect,” Zelnick said.
“So, the underside line is we’re selective about which platforms we help,” he added.
To be clear, Zelnick’s statements mirror Take Two’s coverage on PC releases usually and never particular to GTA 6. Clearly, they received’t abandon gaming’s largest and largest platform however given the writer’s erratic report with Rockstar’s PC releases within the final decade or so, it doesn’t encourage a lot confidence amongst GTA PC gamers.
A PC model of GTA 6 model will doubtless occur in some unspecified time in the future however who is aware of when that shall be. To provide you a little bit of historical past, Bully launched on consoles in October 2006 adopted by a PC launch, two years later, in 2008. Grand Theft Auto 4 launched PS3 and Xbox 360 in April of 2008. The PC model noticed launch just a few months later in December. Grand Theft Auto 5‘s preliminary launch was again in September 2013 adopted by a PC launch virtually two years later in April 2015. Rockstar’s most up-to-date sport, Purple Lifeless Redemption 2 launched on PS4 and Xbox One in October 2018 adopted by a PC launch in 2019. Video games like Midnight Membership: Los Angeles didn’t even noticed a PC model launched.
It’s clear that within the case of Rockstar and their video games, a PC model isn’t a precedence for Take Two. Nevertheless, in case of its different labels, gamers can count on Borderlands 4 and Mafia: The Outdated Nation to launch day one on PC.
Grand Theft Auto 6 launches in Fall of 2025.
