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    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.

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    how are so many of you forgetting that Rockstar titles are always launched first as console exclusives? My guess is they’re just trying to raise as much money as possible. it will get a PC launch later

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    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.

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      Add to that a monthly subscription just to play online. Even crazier.

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      100 bucks for a game, lmao.
      Surprised they didn’t skip the middle man and made it subscription only already

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        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.

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    Consoles are glorified DRM machines so it’s no wonder, really.

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    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.

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      10 hours ago

      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.

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        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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      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.

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      And NOTHING HAS CHANGED in twenty years - yeah? Not a fucking thing that should shift how they release games. Consoles are still sooo different from PCs, with their AMD x64 CPUs and AMD RDNA GPUs.

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        OK but Take Two is greedy as all hell. Their previous launches taught them that gamers are willing to double-dip so why would they pass up on the opportunity to earn twice?

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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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    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.

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    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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      GTA games always get ported to PC. I don’t understand why people think that VI will be any different. Y’all do this with every new release.

      We’ll be playing this game on PC by Q4 2026, spring 2027 at the very latest.

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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 think I will never buy a console. They aren’t as expensive as good gaming PCs, but way to limited in their capabilities for me. Modding is very cool in many games, and almost never possible on consoles. In addition, waiting a bit after the release is also often a good idea, since bugs will be fixed and if the game is actually shit, you will know that before buying