While we can only imagine what GTA 6 will look like, Rockstar has crossed technological boundaries in recent years, and it seems likely that its unveiling would come at the same time as the release of GTA V’s re-release. Grand Theft Auto 6 has adopted the release strategy of MMORPG World of Warcraft, and Rockstar is reportedly considering releasing it as part of it. The game is the latest installment in the Grand Theft Auto series, which includes the first two GTA games as well as a number of spin-off games.
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Plus with both consoles sorely lacking a monumental launch title, it's becoming incredibly likely that one of the two might try to secure timed exclusivity of GTA 6 to pull ahead.Ĭould history repeat itself and see GTA 6 released exclusively on the PS5 out of the gate? Or could Microsoft outbid Sony for a timed-exclusive launch of GTA 6 on the Series X after the delay of Halo Infinite? We'll need to wait until the announcement of Rockstar's next big open-world adventure to be sure.Starting with Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, developed in 1997 by Rockstar’s game studio, the game’s recent releases have been so successful that it is widely distributed, both GTA 5 and GTA 6. Technically, Microsoft has more money to throw around than Sony does for these kinds of big-budget deals.
But could Sony try to forge another deal with the GTA-creator to pull ahead in the hotly contested, next-gen console war? Industry analyst Michael Pachter told Eurogamerin 2010 that Microsoft had paid Rockstar's parent company, Take-Two Interactive, $75 million to stop GTA's PS exclusivity.
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Rockstar launched GTA 4 on the PS3 and Xbox 360 simultaneously, ending Sony's streak of timed exclusivity for the franchise. The Inverse Analysis - GTA 3, GTA Vice City, and GTA: San Andreas all launched on Sony consoles months before they were released on the Xbox and PC. In other words, this deal is not happening under the terms outlined by Foxy UK Games, but some alternate version with a very different price tag attached seems impossible. They could instead invest that money in at least seven big-budget AAA games. Spending $750 million on securing a month of GTA 6 exclusivity would cost them more than seven times the development of TLOU 2. To put this in perspective, it's estimated that it cost Sony somewhere in the ballpark of $100 million to create The Last of Us Part II. Spending $750 million for 'GTA 6' exclusivity would make no sense considering how much PlayStation makes every quarter. And for what? A measly month of exclusivity on a multiplatform game?
The alleged $750 million GTA 6 deal would cost Sony 65 percent of its record-breaking PS profits. That was the most that PlayStation has ever earned in the first quarter of a year in Sony's entire history. Sony's PlayStation business earned $1.15 billion in profits during the first financial quarter of 2020, the company announced during an August 4 earnings report. To make matters worse for this rumor, a $750 million deal would eviscerate Sony's corporate wallet. There's absolutely no chance GTA 6 will be released when the PS5 launches during the 2020 holidays, meaning Sony wouldn't be able to capitalize on the hype around GTA 6 to get gamers to buy the PS5 at launch instead of the Xbox Series X. GTA 6 was reported to be early in development, and Rockstar plans to continue supporting the current version of GTA Online well into 2021.
While an exclusive launch of GTA 6 on the PS5 would be a major win for Sony, the price tag attached to this rumor is absolutely ludicrous especially since it wouldn't even be a PS5 launch title. YouTuber Foxy UK Games claimed that he caught wind of a $750,000,000 deal being brokered between Sony and Rockstar to secure a 30-day exclusive launch of GTA 6 on the PS5 in a video he uploaded on August 10. But that doesn't rule out the possibility that 'GTA 6' might be launched as a console exclusive.
The rumored $750 million, Rockstar-Sony deal is completely unreasonable.
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