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▲ The launch platform of “Grand Theft Auto 6” does not include the PC version. (Picture/reproduced from the game’s official website)

Reporter Lou Wanling/Comprehensive Report

Recently, a former Rockstar employee who participated in game development shared on the Internet why he thinks the PC version of “Grand Theft Auto 6, GTA 6” was not included in the launch platform.

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The “GTA” series is an open-world crime action game developed by Rockstar Games. It is extremely popular around the world. As of the end of September 2023, the cumulative sales of the game have exceeded 410 million copies, making it an evergreen game that spans multiple generations. The story background of the new game “GTA 6” that was released earlier is set in the fictional state of Leonida in the United States and Vice City, which is familiar to old players in the past.

Mike York, an animator who once participated in the production of games such as “GTA 5” and “Red Dead Redemption 2” at Rockstar Games, said that there are two main reasons why the PC version of “GTA 6” will take some time to be launched. First, Rockstar intends to focus on For platforms with higher sales, the PC version takes more time to process.

“In the past, PlayStation has been the best-selling console, with sales exceeding that of any other console. Everyone is using PlayStation to play games.” He pointed out that developers will focus all their energy on ensuring that games can run stably on the PlayStation platform. It will then be gradually ported to Xbox.

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“When I was working on GTA 5, we were mainly focused on the PS3 and the Xbox at the time. But we were mainly pushing the PS3 to its limits because the PS3 had better hardware performance at the time. So we put all our energy into PS3 version, making it the best performer on that console.”

“On PlayStation and Xbox, each one has a graphics card, and it’s the same graphics card, the same internal architecture, that’s shipped to every PlayStation that’s been shipped to millions of people. But with PCs, everyone’s PC is different, They run differently, have different hardware, different CPUs and GPUs.”

Obviously, the PC version will take longer. The main reason is that each PC environment has a different architecture and different types of components. The development team must find ways to adapt the game to operate in different environments.

It seems that Rockstar intends to launch the console version of “GTA 6” first and then launch the PC version later. The reason is that the development team wants to make the game as perfect as possible. The current focus is on solving unsolved bugs, and the PC version The version will be launched after the console version and will not be the first platform. The development team wants to give priority to the platform with higher sales, which is the PS version.

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