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.
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Add to that a monthly subscription just to play online. Even crazier.
100 bucks for a game, lmao.
Surprised they didn't skip the middle man and made it subscription only already
Tbh it's fair if the quality and the (useful) amount of €/h of entertainment fits.
If it's 75% go drive here, go deliver there from a story going for 100h and maybe 25% of it is actually exciting contetn, I'll pass and wait for the >50% off.
To the title question: Yes.
I won't bother buying a console just for one game.
how are so many of you forgetting that Rockstar titles are always launched first as console exclusives? My guess is they're just trying to raise as much money as possible. it will get a PC launch later
Besides you don't wanna buy it at release
Haven't any of these people learned?
Given the state of gta 5, i wont buy it ever.
yea
Not me! I've never paid enough attention to rockstar to have realized they were stuck in the 2000s :(
Yup, it’s always the same model, pretty sure with the precise (and likely not incorrect) assumption that at least some amount of people will buy it twice at full price if they do that.
Better off waiting until it's down to normal game prices anyways.
Just wait. It’ll be the same as the last one with a slightly different city.
The city shape will be the same, the signs will be different
Even if GTAVI launched on PC at a normal price, it would still be worth it to wait. You can get it on sale, and the game will have been fixed, and there will even be content updates.
Patient gamers, people. Don't even think about release dates. Early access? Advanced access? What the hell do I care? There are still NES games I should get around to.
Content update? You mean online mode updates? All single player will get is a radio station downgrade after a year or so.
This will be the first GTA I don't preorder or play on day one.
You’re probably better off playing through San Andreas again.
Patience, the price will drop and the game will be just as good
Is it not releasing to PC at full price in 1-3yr?
Yes, but then ask you need to do it continue to wait for a sale or reduction in price. The patient gamer life has definitely grown on me, with a few exceptions like helldivers 2
Consoles are glorified DRM machines so it's no wonder, really.
Well that and extremely standardized platforms, with all the benefits that entails.
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!
That’s OS based not device
Their controller, CPU and GPU are the bottleneck, not the OS.
If we aren’t OS limited then we aren’t gamepad limited because you can just use a kb/m
I mean games got slower because of controllers (think arenafps and boomer shooters).
But that’s an OS imposed limitation not a hardware imposed one
PC Master Race ✊
Yeah that was never "funny" but it's way less funny now nazis are actually in power again.
It's funny to me, I don't need your opinion, thanks.
Then why are you posting things in public? That's the definition of wanting everyone's opinion.
Ok, we want to go with logic? Because I'm telling them that from now on I don't need their opinion, and that whatever they said is not welcome. Do you see how that works? So I'll repeat, I don't need your opinion either. And just to drive it home here's a preemptive block. Get out of my face with your stupid gotchas and your half-thoughts. Like, I'm not even replying to you.
no one asked
Yes, precisely, that's what I'm saying. Even thought I didn't ask you either. And block.
I used to think simultaneous launch was good and desired. Then the first Monster Hunter simultaneous launch happened this year and now I'm not so sure. A lot of it's problems were forecasted by the state of Dragon's Dogma 2 but not to such an extent, I can't help but wonder if a delay would have helped.
Steamdeck is a console so port it.
I find it extremely hard to empathize with PC players from the mountains of PC only games that have never come to consoles.
You always develop games on PC. From there you create builds for PC and Consoles, but the console build step is not easily achievable. You need to go through a lot of hoops to get a game on console. Oh and you'll spend a lot of money to get there.
And does it really make sense as a solo indie dev to release your game exclusively on one console?
Bottom line consoles intentionally don’t make it easy to publish to. PC is as easy as making an itchio account and uploading your games there.
And you may notice, I didn't say that it was. I said I found it hard to feel empathy for PC players as they stand on a literal mountain of PC only games.
Yes and I just wanted to point out that this isn’t a choice of the devs (most of the time) but rather consoles being a walled garden.
Because I think it’s unfair to say that you shouldn’t have empathy for PC gamers just because they have so many games already. Do the 100 indie games I can buy for <5€ really make up for the inability to play GTA6 or Death Stranding 2 (early)?
Console exclusivity always hurts the consumer and is, in my opinion, a legacy practice.
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