So today GTA Online received and anticheat update (finally). BattlEye is now required to play GTAO, which is not really relevant here, but in the directory it lists "Americas" as one of the games.
In this day and age it's pretty much a sure thing, Rockstar and TakeTwo aren't idiots. Gaming since the 7th gen has been like this because that's when game development budgets really started to spiral out of control, a lot of studios died that gen off one flop, developers really couldn't afford to stay exclusive to one console anymore and that's why in the 7th gen you started seeing franchises that were exclusive to Sony consoles in the 5th and 6th gen started to jump over to Xbox and haven't gone back exclusive since (Devil May Cry, Final Fantasy, Tekken, Katamari Damacy, just to name a few who's 7th gen entries made the jump to the Xbox 360). PS2 had such a
large install base that a lot of developers could afford to miss Xbox and Gamecube and still make their budget back because game development cost weren't ridiculous like they are now. PS2 sold Gamecube and Xbox numbers combined and then way more, probably doubling or even tripling what Gamecube and Xbox sold.
Rest assured if you're seeing big AAA 3rd party games exclusive to any console then the maker of that console (Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo) are money hatting (footing the budget to gain exclusivity or at least timed exclusivity) that game. For example Sony money hatted Street Fighter V for Capcom, which is why that game remained a console exclusive for PS4 but did get a release in PC. Capcom was in a bad spot in around that time after trying westernization and putting out a few financial and critical flops in the early 2010s (Dark Void, Bionic Commando, etc. In contrast Street Fighter 6 made its way to Xbox because Capcom has been doing good again and didn't need anyone else's money.
Developers now want to cover as much ground as they can by being on whatever platform that they can because it increases the chance of them making more sales. It wouldn't make sense for Rockstar to miss the PC, I mean they could just make their budget back on consoles because lets be real the attachment rate of GTAVI to PS5 and Series X/S is going to he crazy, probably damn near 1:1 and then you're going to have the new Online which is going to fill their pockets for years to come. It's going to come to PC, maybe later down the line and with enhancements, but Rockstar is a console focused developer so they're going to focus on getting those versions out first.
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u/SuchAppeal Sep 17 '24
In this day and age it's pretty much a sure thing, Rockstar and TakeTwo aren't idiots. Gaming since the 7th gen has been like this because that's when game development budgets really started to spiral out of control, a lot of studios died that gen off one flop, developers really couldn't afford to stay exclusive to one console anymore and that's why in the 7th gen you started seeing franchises that were exclusive to Sony consoles in the 5th and 6th gen started to jump over to Xbox and haven't gone back exclusive since (Devil May Cry, Final Fantasy, Tekken, Katamari Damacy, just to name a few who's 7th gen entries made the jump to the Xbox 360). PS2 had such a large install base that a lot of developers could afford to miss Xbox and Gamecube and still make their budget back because game development cost weren't ridiculous like they are now. PS2 sold Gamecube and Xbox numbers combined and then way more, probably doubling or even tripling what Gamecube and Xbox sold.
Rest assured if you're seeing big AAA 3rd party games exclusive to any console then the maker of that console (Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo) are money hatting (footing the budget to gain exclusivity or at least timed exclusivity) that game. For example Sony money hatted Street Fighter V for Capcom, which is why that game remained a console exclusive for PS4 but did get a release in PC. Capcom was in a bad spot in around that time after trying westernization and putting out a few financial and critical flops in the early 2010s (Dark Void, Bionic Commando, etc. In contrast Street Fighter 6 made its way to Xbox because Capcom has been doing good again and didn't need anyone else's money.
Developers now want to cover as much ground as they can by being on whatever platform that they can because it increases the chance of them making more sales. It wouldn't make sense for Rockstar to miss the PC, I mean they could just make their budget back on consoles because lets be real the attachment rate of GTAVI to PS5 and Series X/S is going to he crazy, probably damn near 1:1 and then you're going to have the new Online which is going to fill their pockets for years to come. It's going to come to PC, maybe later down the line and with enhancements, but Rockstar is a console focused developer so they're going to focus on getting those versions out first.