Better off waiting until it's down to normal game prices anyways.
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Patience, the price will drop and the game will be just as good
Is it not releasing to PC at full price in 1-3yr?
Yes, but then ask you need to do it continue to wait for a sale or reduction in price. The patient gamer life has definitely grown on me, with a few exceptions like helldivers 2
Even if GTAVI launched on PC at a normal price, it would still be worth it to wait. You can get it on sale, and the game will have been fixed, and there will even be content updates.
Patient gamers, people. Don't even think about release dates. Early access? Advanced access? What the hell do I care? There are still NES games I should get around to.
Content update? You mean online mode updates? All single player will get is a radio station downgrade after a year or so.
This will be the first GTA I don't preorder or play on day one.
how are so many of you forgetting that GTA titles are always launched first as console exclusives? it will get a PC launch later
Yup, it’s always the same model, pretty sure with the precise (and likely not incorrect) assumption that at least some amount of people will buy it twice at full price if they do that.
Besides you don't wanna buy it at release
Haven't any of these people learned?
Given the state of gta 5, i wont buy it ever.
Not me! I've never paid enough attention to rockstar to have realized they were stuck in the 2000s :(
To the title question: Yes.
I won't bother buying a console just for one game.
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.
I used to think simultaneous launch was good and desired. Then the first Monster Hunter simultaneous launch happened this year and now I'm not so sure. A lot of it's problems were forecasted by the state of Dragon's Dogma 2 but not to such an extent, I can't help but wonder if a delay would have helped.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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!
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Just wait. It’ll be the same as the last one with a slightly different city.
That just means I'll buy GOTY edition for $5 years later if I buy it at all lol
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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.
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I find it extremely hard to empathize with PC players from the mountains of PC only games that have never come to consoles.
You always develop games on PC. From there you create builds for PC and Consoles, but the console build step is not easily achievable. You need to go through a lot of hoops to get a game on console. Oh and you'll spend a lot of money to get there.
And does it really make sense as a solo indie dev to release your game exclusively on one console?
Bottom line consoles intentionally don’t make it easy to publish to. PC is as easy as making an itchio account and uploading your games there.
And you may notice, I didn't say that it was. I said I found it hard to feel empathy for PC players as they stand on a literal mountain of PC only games.
Yes and I just wanted to point out that this isn’t a choice of the devs (most of the time) but rather consoles being a walled garden.
Because I think it’s unfair to say that you shouldn’t have empathy for PC gamers just because they have so many games already. Do the 100 indie games I can buy for <5€ really make up for the inability to play GTA6 or Death Stranding 2 (early)?
Console exclusivity always hurts the consumer and is, in my opinion, a legacy practice.
You’re probably better off playing through San Andreas again.
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.
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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.
Steamdeck is a console so port it.
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