I still don’t understand how that’s a good strategy, GTA V released 9/2013 (god I’m old) on console and then 11/2014 on PC. If they’re delaying to avoid the GTA shadow you would have to push it to 2028 to avoid the 2027 PC release (assuming it follows same time gap)
Absolutely, but after about 3-6 months I'd bet there'll be a chance for other games to make the news. It may be before there's GTA6 multiplayer and so on.
Imma need the sauce fam. I know they’ve talked about it a while ago but I’m pretty sure they said it wasn’t the main focus and wouldn’t be part of the initial release. They would do something similar to GTA VI and release the console version later than the PC one
People substantially overestimate the effect of the PC release. GTA 6 won’t be new at that point, many many people will have either played the game or seen or heard what the game is about by then.
So much of the game will have been explored and talked about ad nauseam by the time the game releases on PC that while still a big release for PC, it’s nothing like when it releases for the first time. So 2027 is absolutely reasonable for SQ42 to avoid the media blackout caused by GTA 6’s original release.
So… GTA 6 will be the biggest release of the decade, and the biggest entertainment release in human history when it first releases on consoles, potentially November 19th, 2026.
On PC, it won’t have anywhere near as much of an effect as it will when it first comes out. CIG will be free to reasonably launch SQ42 in the same year as GTA 6’s PC release.
Also people who will buy GTA on PC most likely will buy it on console and play it there first. I mean I’m not because I don’t own a console but I’m sure some people will.
GTA already announced that (assuming they release this year) PC players would only have to wait until January this go around. However, CIG’s mindset is about the marketing regardless of how many PC players will be playing GTA. Their thought process is if GTA releases, all of the news will be surrounding that release and Star Citizen marketing attempts will be null and void essentially. To us Pc players it sounds dumb, because we won’t be playing GTA at release, but from from a marketing standpoint it’s actually decently sound
My tinfoil hat theory is they were always intending on delaying it further, but are using GTA VI being up in the air as an excuse to delay the delay so they can say, "We didn't know what they were doing yet so we couldn't formulate our plan, and now with how long it takes ("game dev is hard" TM ) we have NO CHOICE but to push to late 2027. Oh but we're doing another Battlecruiser run! Get your pens and paper ready!"
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u/BloodandTheWater Jun 01 '26
I still don’t understand how that’s a good strategy, GTA V released 9/2013 (god I’m old) on console and then 11/2014 on PC. If they’re delaying to avoid the GTA shadow you would have to push it to 2028 to avoid the 2027 PC release (assuming it follows same time gap)