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GTAs core audience, honestly. Not necessarily the main buyer, but the die hards. As long as school hasnt started.

This game's core audience is 12 year olds and basement dwellers

They should show how you press the control stick in a direction and the realistic locomotion means it takes like 2 seconds for it to happen

Reminds me of the critical mass of hype around whatever From Soft does. I like those games, but fuck they're over praised. We should hold publishers accountable until they're the average for AAA titles.

come on reaper I'm ready, let this shit be the last one of these

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Literally every release for every expansion of WoW has that same vibe. People just want their only priority in life to mean more than it does because otherwise, their life has no meaning.

Reviewers giving it low scores in the first year will have to go into the equivalent of witness protection.

Based on the generations-long development and untenable hype cycle alone, I hope so badly that the case study of GTA 6 does not translate into “what publishers will decree games should be like for the next 10-20 years.” If this kind of monolith becomes the standard, it’s over. idc how much it sells

if only that was enough to be successful in 2026

Good

Thank fucking God our long nightmare will be over

It’s cheaper to just buy a ps5 pro or upgrade a computer than renting for $2k.

Even as someone who will probably play and enjoy GTA6 this all seems excessive

it could be the most "never release your game" game ever made. if it only makes 1 billion dollars instead of 2, the entire industry will explode.

I’ve always felt weird about the gta 6 hype. I get gta is quite popular but I genuinely never understood the hype for this game and the chances of me checking it out when it releases are next to zero

I'm seeing fatigue within gaming fans too. The game has taken too long to come out, can't live up to expectations, costs too much, is a code-in-a-box instead of a disc, and Rockstar are publicly in court over union busting and unfair dismissal cases. Basically, everything that's wrong with AAA.

It really does feel like we've hit the peak of putting all the gaming industry's eggs in one basket. I'm sure it'll be the best selling game of all time and everything will be fine and no one will drop this very very heavy expensive basket

always has been. GTA is the last standing one I think. It used to be Halo, COD, GTA, and a few other series, but GTA is the only AAA thing worth caring about right now.

It's worse than that because if it does sell 100 million copies we are *also* dead.

Given recent news like Devolver going private again cause investors are so washed that they won't even let people make games anymore and the constant layoffs in the AAA space to a point of being comically evil I kinda hope it's mid, flops, and forces a full gaming reset in the AAA space.

Okay, so I'm not alone in thinking that rockstar has extremely unrealistic sales goals. The second it looks like it won't meet them, the majority of the dev team is getting laid off. Its not the early 2010's anymore, the entire console market has significantly changed.

Considering how anti uninion and evil the gta developers are I hope it flops spectacularly. I don’t mind the game but I deeply oppose the level of evil taketwo and rockstar have cultivated.

Honestly, the fact that there's no PC version at launch despite everyone seemingly jumping to PCs for gaming, the fact that the "base" version locks behind a lot of stuff, and other stuff means GTA VI's dead to me from day 1. I actually would be surprised if they reach that many copies, admittedly

they (industry ppl) need gta to cause another gaming ‘boom’ where the ppl with all the money stolen from labor and tax avoidance is reallocated into gaming so they can “have their own GTA”

That is actually reality

Don’t forget their treatment of union workers, genuinely evil shit

setting a very funny precedent of not showing any gameplay trailers for the biggest game in a decade until three months before launch while they're at it, too

i dont understand it either but then i havent played a GTA game since the Vice City era and the only GTA style game i have ever really enjoyed and completed was Sleeping Dogs.

the entire cottage industry of "GTA6 is going to model your piss at the quantum level" has been wild to see for the last few years

It's wild to me to make your game marketing exclusive to some streaming platform, instead of like, trying to get me to watch it while I'm surfing YouTube, watching other video game content.

thanks for putting this to words. I get that it that is an important game but it seems like the second coming of christ but even more so a make it break it moment for the whole gaming industry which sounds insane to me, this is not hype this is a cult

I genuinely think rockstar forgot the game is coming out in like three months time so they just said “shit just put it on Netflix” or something

It's a very strange, almost cult-like situation, with people believing it's going to be the greatest game of all time. It won't be. It won't be even close, given Rockstar's track record with how they treat GTA games. They downgrade in quality with each iteration. Tell me 5 > San Andreas, just try.

The original on ps one and the London version were the only ones I ever completed. Open world games are not really my thing. Any world bigger than the ff7 original world map on ps one and I get overwhelmed.

KILLED?????!!!!!!

I used to be excited that rock star started in Dundee. I'll never buy from those union busting shitbags again

I think genuinely Take Two is a company that makes more money off of Being The Publisher of the Upcoming Grand Theft Auto than they ever could actually selling copies of it. GTAVI exists to justify stock prices, and eventually selling it means that the potential of GTAVI will plateau and decline

Upon checking GTA V's price, i'm 99% sure GTA VI's price in COP will be 300k COP at a minimum (about 100 dollaroos, inflation is a fnuy)

we can only hope

It was some people:# whole identity. San An is the reason I greet people with "sup G?". In an era where console gaming was an importsnt social venue.

this game used to be about Driving Somebody’s Car Real Fast…. now it’s all about the “Pre-Order Bonus” which will save nobody from The Layoffs

It would be economically sustainable if Rockstar + TakeTwo weren't some of the greediest companies in gaming and had the entire AAA market shot itself in different body parts, repetitively, with a shotgun. The idea that GTA6 literally determines if AAA exists *at all* is a massive, systemic failure

I will not be getting GTA VI but I will say the Rock Star approach to open worlds DOES satisfy my diorama autism

Nah it was definitely San An. Niko wasn't nearly as charismatic as CJ. The plot and characters weren't as much fun. The Driving was much heavier and didn't lend itself to as much zany bullshit. San An nailed it on character, story, soundtrack, gameplay, all that jazz. And it was fun, in the sense

you nailed in 300 characters what i was talking around in a draft blog post 🫡

I *should* be feeling excitement. Why am I only feeling anxiety and dread?

Looking at cyberpunk 2077 and No Mans Sky, it seems to me that an open world game nowadays is not released but a decade long construction side. And thats what brings us together as a community.

funny you say that cause it was announced gta 6 was doing a code in a box for its physical release months before sony killed physical.

the people want gta they do not really want anything else but for these last few decades when companies tried to rip off certain shit like gta and cod and fell flat on their face its a lesson they will not learn

Technically you can with physical copies at stores that just have the digital code so have no clue how that gets counted in sales figures

This one game franchise has always felt disconnected from every other game, you ask casuals that don’t play games and they’ll tell you that they’re excited, you ask professionals who have worked or studied how the industry operates and they fear it for what and will do to the future of the medium.

It feels like one last hurrah, all eggs in one basket for the AAA. Shareholders expecting the rapid growth from a unique series of events to continue every quarter after rather than making preparation for a sustainable business model. How many copies does it need to sell to break even?

There's a lot of fragile male mental health riding on this game being everything they could ever want.

I’m not sure I can agree that it won’t sustain itself. I don’t like Rockstar or its game design sensibilities, but the general public loves GTA. 5 still sells. 6 is going to be big regardless of how shit it is.

And, regardless

It's the last video game.

Part of me hopes it's a failure, just to give the industry a reality check. I know it won't respond to such a failure by no longer being awful, but it might at least pull them out of the assumption that there are infinite customer with infinite time and money.

More and more about the game feels fake. This is like an episode of CSI or Bones. "You never heard of GTA six? Billion dollar money sink? No game game competed with it all month! Even popular streaming sites like Netflix scrambled to advertise *for them*." A parody of itself at this point.

people are gonna kill themselves the day it drops i bet

I'm gonna upgrade my computer after 15 years and I've been feeding the build I'm gonna have and GTA6 page felt like "you kinda can but are you sure you want this"

God I hope it flops so hard

The pillar of Ball & Gun will "save gaming" by making gaming a rich man's hobby... Meanwhile I'm here shilling a remaster of underrated DS RPGs. I couldn't care any less about GTA 6, I have better things to do.

Issue is that no one else is really making a game that scratches that same itch, so lots of people hype it up for lack of alternative.

I agree but I can definitely see nerdier types doing this if Half-Life 3 was real and in a similar situation

I recently saw a “GTA VI” vanity plate in the wild. I wonder how long they’ve had it lol

I'd say that normies are just like this about GTA. back when V was new to PC, their anti-cheat started (repeatedly) banning me from GTAO over false positives, and every site where I'd ask for help, people would yell at me for cheating. even rockstar themselves hung up on the phone with me over it.

I feel a similar way about the elder scrolls 6 tbh

It is entirely hype around the two facts that GTA 5 is one of the biggest games ever made and is also a PS3 game from 2013. It's like if the last CoD game was Black Ops 2 and gun-and-ball gamers had to wait over a decade for their beloved slop franchise to return

Esp for a game who'se main attraction is getting in and out of cara

How it feels to not care about GTA6

tbh that reminds me of the rise of skywalker Fortnite thing

Yeah they’re so ominous about it. The Netflix thing baffles me.

it's going to cost $150 and it's going to sell 100 million copies in five minutes

I don’t give af until the PC launch tbh

We won't die if it doesn't sells 100 million copies on the opening week, but the AAA gaming industry and its shareholders most certianly will.

They're going to be burying these in the desert again, I just know it.

All this for a game people will play and ask “why is it just gta V again”

I feel I have missed much gta discourse and my life is better for it.

nah never played red dead 2

thank god GTA 6 will launch with an online mode

Oh yeah I forgot that Red Dead Online even existed lmao. Goofy behavior to look at one of the most critically and commercially acclaimed games ever made and say "well the shoehorned online we only made because GTA did it was bad so it's a failure"

That's a dogshit port that the main GTA team didn't even work on, I don't think that counts when it's basically a Mario 3D All-Stars situation

GTA 6 would only be considered profitable if it earned more money than was put into it, even if the money put into it was earned from something else and not borrowed or invested.

It feels doomed to failure from all the pressure and hype

That was a hilariously anticlimactic affair.

My favorite part of the hype is how many people keep talking about features they want in GTA6... For Grand Theft Auto Online.

I’m going to start by saying that the last GTA I played was SA on the PlayStation 2. It was fun when I was 14. I do not get the 6 hype. And even if it’s the perfect game it’s never going to live up to a decade+ of gamer expectations.

best guess is it’s either a partnership or related to how netflix also has a gta san andreas remaster(???)

I just keep thinking about the confident assurance that it will sell Seventy Billion Copies, and like it definitely will do really really well, but it seems like if this sells one copy short of Seventy Billion the entire industry crashes

The best way I can describe the GTA6 stuff is similar to AI ventures. It feels like a corporation going "This is the most important thing in your life! You'll love it! You will never play another game without it being in this!" Then gamers uncomfortably trying to find a good part to like.

Cool, let them be delusional about the one time the game did go broke while not realizing why it happened. I care about the opinions of those mouthbreathing dipshits as much as I care about the opinions of termites.

but will the boe buy up secretly all the copys and call it the greatest success for 103 years?

Let’s not give him ideas.

Because we are inside a simulation running GTA 8 so if the game doesnt do well in the simulation then GTA 8 won't be made in the simulation it's like a time travel paradox