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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

that it was a game where you could fuck around. V wasn't a game, it was prestige TV that grudgingly let you do missions sometimes and jealously controlled your access to cash and cool toys to keep you on a leash, and them it was the online money reaping machine that expected you to get severaljobs

Ngl i just remembered/realized that i never did finish San andreas' story, like i do know the story because of cultural osmosis, but i never did finish it, and its been quite longer since i last played it compared to GTA IV. But i do really like Niko, he is probably the thing i like the most of IV

GTA4 hit less hard at the time but has aged really, really well, imo

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