GTA 6's console-only launch reminds me of how much I despise console exclusivity - is it worth waiting years for PC ports?

Just wait. It’ll be the same as the last one with a slightly different city.

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.

You’re probably better off playing through San Andreas again.

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!

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.

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.

That just means I'll buy GOTY edition for $5 years later if I buy it at all lol

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.

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.

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

I honestly got tired of the "Xbox vs. PlayStation" BS they were pushing well over a decade ago. I actually bought a Nintendo Wii during that generation's console war, because Nintendo was the only company just doing their own thing and not trying to compete for best graphics, processing power, etc.

But Nintendo consoles were limited in themselves. Nintendo doesn't like to share their properties, and they very rarely port classics to modern systems. So if my Wii ever broke, the only way I could play my games again was to find another Wii. Even if they stopped making them; is have to find a second-hand shop and buy a used console.

I almost gave up on the gaming world, until I found Steam. Any games I buy there stay in my library forever, even if they're removed from the store. And they emulate the original supporting hardware, so even classic games are still playable on a modern Windows 11 PC.

Thanks to Steam, I have a renewed interest in gaming and have built up a library of nearly 4,000 games over the last decade and a half.

I don't bother with console gaming anymore. If I miss that style of gaming, I have a Razer controller plugged into my computer that I can use instead of my keyboard and mouse. If a game is exclusive to console... Oh well, maybe I'll catch it if/when it ports to PC. But until it does, that's a lost sale for that developer/publisher. I'm not going to feed the exclusivity BS by buying games while they're only available on one device.

I've been saying, I'd really like to play Alan Wake II, but as long as it's an Epic Games exclusive, I can't buy it. If they want my money, they'll have to allow it on Steam too. And since it's owned by Epic Games, not just published by them, it's gonna stay exclusive. So I guess I'll never get to play that game. I don't agree with Epic Games' predatory practices, so I will never give them a penny of my money.

This is another of the benefits of patient gaming, avoiding the delays caused by the double-dip fishing Rockstar does with their games. For me, the last three years' release schedules have been so stacked that they don't leave much room for temptation or frustration with delays. I've always got something to play.

I understand the frustration for the diehard GTA fans, but I would have figured those people moved to console if they weren't already.

GTAVI will not be just a console exclusive, probably it will become an Epic Store exclusive on PC. There could be tons of useless discussion about what companies shoud or should not do; but in the end, companies exist only to the extend of their customer's money. T2 strategy paid off, becouse their customer bougt GTAV repetedtly when came on PS3 generation, then PS4, then PS4Pro, then Epic Store and etc. etc.They sold one single AAA multiple time with relatively low effort (definetly not the cost of this many AAA games): their growth was done on their customer's stupidity, so they now employ the same exact stratgy that works on stupid people... and make money.

Based on the ports I've played, no. But it heavily depends on how much effort is put into the port. The low effort ports are never worth getting. Basically barely get the game running on PC and calling it a day. Awkward controls and they don't even bother to change the tutorial to tell you which key on your keyboard to press. Press "Start" to open the menu.

If they at least try to actually adapt it to PC users then maybe. Depends how how much effort was out into making it run well.

So yea, not a lot of developers put in the actual effort to make a port worth playing. GTA 5 was horribly unoptimized, wasn't it? Maybe they learned, but I wouldn't bet on it.