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 Crimson Useless Redemption 1 to Crimson Useless Redemption 2. In actual fact, simply Take Two launched Crimson Useless Redemption 1 on PC final month after fourteen lengthy years (you possibly can learn our assessment of the PC model right here).
Sadly, this apply 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 shortage 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 current earnings name, Take-Two chairman and CEO Strauss Zelnick said that the PC platform is necessary for them and creating help for it isn’t in any respect sophisticated.
“If one platform diminishes in worth, there’s at all times one other one. So, we’re seeing nice development 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 increasingly more necessary 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 replicate Take Two’s coverage on PC releases typically and never particular to GTA 6. Clearly, they gained’t abandon gaming’s greatest and largest platform however given the writer’s erratic document 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 seemingly occur sooner or later however who is aware of when that can be. To offer 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, Crimson Useless 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 is just not a precedence for Take Two. Nonetheless, in case of its different labels, gamers can anticipate Borderlands 4 and Mafia: The Previous Nation to launch day one on PC.
Grand Theft Auto 6 launches in Fall of 2025.
