Shortly after launching on PC, Grand Theft Auto 5 Enhanced is seemingly having a rocky time. A number of followers of the unique (now known as Grand Theft Auto 5 Legacy) have taken to leaving detrimental opinions on the title’s Steam retailer web page. On the time of writing, the Enhanced model is at the moment sitting at a overview mixture of Combined on Steam, averaging out from 6,255 opinions.
Whereas there are fairly a couple of optimistic opinions for the title, numbering it at round 3,370, the detrimental opinions are within the majority. Complaints in consumer opinions largely revolve round a couple of technical points, like HDR not working for some and migration troubles.
Alternatively, a number of optimistic opinions additionally reward Grand Theft Auto 5 Enhanced for the visible upgrades that it dropped at the ageing open-world title, in addition to it being a free improve for gamers who already owned the unique GTA 5.
Regardless of this, nonetheless, the discharge finally appears to have been fairly profitable. In its first day alone, Grand Theft Auto 5 Enhanced has managed to hit a 24-hour peak of 187,059 concurrent gamers on the time of writing. This primarily makes it the second-most performed recreation proper now as of information from SteamDB.
Grand Theft Auto 5 Enhanced was launched as a free replace for all GTA 5 house owners on PC. It brings with it the entire enhancements that have been made to the title on PS5 and Xbox Collection X/S. Gamers are additionally allowed emigrate all of their story and GTA On-line progress into the Enhanced model.
It additionally introduced with it new automobiles, in addition to new actions just like the Wildlife Pictures Problem. It additionally makes the on-ramp for brand spanking new GTA On-line gamers gentler by providing GTA$4,000,000 to begin out with.
Grand Theft Auto 5 has typically confirmed to be extremely profitable for Rockstar in addition to writer Take-Two Interactive. It revealed again in February that the open-world recreation had offered greater than 210 million copies since its 2013 launch. This pushed cumulative gross sales throughout the GTA franchise as much as 440 million models.
Rockstar’s more moderen recreation, Purple Lifeless Redemption 2, additionally hit an unbelievable milestone. Whereas not as profitable as GTA 5, the open-world western has offered 70 million copies worldwide, with complete collection gross sales crossing the 95 million copies mark.
Within the meantime, Rockstar is tough at work attempting to hit its Fall 2025 launch window for Grand Theft Auto 6. Whereas it’s no secret that the subsequent recreation within the franchise is very anticipated, Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick believes it will likely be large enough to trigger “a significant uptick” in console {hardware} gross sales.
“When you’ve got a giant title out there, and now we have a lot of them coming, traditionally that has offered consoles,” Zelnick stated in February. “And I feel that may occur this 12 months. I don’t assume tariffs are going to be our good friend, however I feel there will likely be a significant uptick in console gross sales in calendar 25 due to the discharge schedule, not simply coming from us, however coming from others.”
Grand Theft Auto 6 is being developed for PS5 and Xbox Collection X/S. There have been rumours floating round of a PC launch doubtlessly being slated for early 2026. This has been confirmed to only be hypothesis, nonetheless.