Vice City, USA.Jason and Lucia have always known the deck is stacked against them. But when an easy score goes wrong, they find themselves on the darkest sid...
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Maybe I’m just old, but I feel like all the people complaining about no PC port at launch, or how this trailer doesn’t show gameplay must be ‘new’ to the series (which to be fair, could mean as much as a decade).

This is how Rockstar have pretty much always done it, going all the way back to GTA3 on the PlayStation 2; PC ports have always been 6+ months after.

Trailer 1 tends to be about the setting, Trailer 2 about the primary characters, then Trailer 3/4 about the supporting characters. ‘Gameplay Trailers’ usually don’t come out around/after launch as that’s usually what’s being still being worked on by the devs.

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Rockstar was a PC gaming company before they went into consoles. GTA 1 and 2 were made for PC before being ported to console.

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I know, which is why I specifically called out from GTA3 onwards. 😜

They’ve been console first for a lot longer than not; pretty much ever since they changed their name from DMA Design to Rockstar North.

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And?

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We will always complain about the lack of a PC port at launch… especially in this era.

We’re not going away

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Wasted breath.

I’d be surprised if they did release on console and PC at the time. Literally hasn’t been done by Rockstar yet, so why would they start now?

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Feel free to complain, no one is trying to stop you. Just understand though that you are screaming into the void, and nothing will come of it bar heightened cortisol.

Grand Theft Auto is the arguably the most profitable gaming franchise ever, and it got there doing this exact release cadence. Rockstar Games & Take-Two Interactive will continue to do so for as long as it continues to maximise profits.

Does it stuck for us gamers? Absolutely, but that’s just Capitalism. Given how quickly this hobby has been enshittified over the post decade, we should probably be counting our lucky stars that it looks like Rockstar is still investing heavily into the next entry, and not just pumping out shallow annual releases like Call of Duty!

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