GTA 6is finally underway after ten years, but some of you will have to wait a little longer. While it’s a current-gen exclusive,it won’t be released on PCat the same time. According to former Rockstar developer Mike York, that’s because it’s “less of a priority”.
Speaking toPCGamesN, York explained, “If they had a huge team, they’d just have one team work on the PC, one team work on the Xbox, and the whole time they’d be trying to optimise all three versions. But it just doesn’t work that way. We don’t have the money, we don’t have the resources, we don’t have the manpower. So we just prioritise what’s best for the company’s money. So let’s put all our money into the PlayStation, then the Xbox, then the PC."
Don’t get mad at the developers. Just attempt to give them the benefit of the doubt. Give them time to deliver these ports.
A big problem is the diversity of PCs. While Xbox and PlayStation use similar hardware and don’t differentiate among themselves, developers have to tackle a variety of different components for PC, such as graphics cards and CPUs, ensuring that the game will run well across a spectrum of computers. That means more testing, which means spending more time.
We don’t even have a release date for the console version of GTA 6, so who knows how much further away the PC port will be? GTA 5 might give us a vague idea, at least.
It launched on PS3 and Xbox 360 at the end of 2013, was re-released on PS4 and Xbox One at the end of 2014, and finally appeared on PC in early 2015. A lot has changed in the last ten years and there’s no imminent next-gen console on the horizon, so it may be a year delay rather than two. But with so little information to go off of, it’s hard to say.
In the meantime, someone hasreimagined GTA 6 as a PS1 game, going all the way back in time.
It’s not just technical difficulty that leads to these kinds of delays. According to York, it’s as much a financial decision as it is a case of manpower.
“The reason why a PC port comes later and why it’s not the first thing that comes out, is because they want to prioritize what sells,” York said. “In the past, PlayStation was the big seller."
So, a combination of time and money means that PC players will have to sit GTA 6 out for a bit.
