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[-] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 6 days ago

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.

[-] root@aussie.zone 17 points 6 days ago

Add to that a monthly subscription just to play online. Even crazier.

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 14 points 6 days ago

100 bucks for a game, lmao.
Surprised they didn't skip the middle man and made it subscription only already

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 6 days ago

To the title question: Yes.
I won't bother buying a console just for one game.

[-] MangoPenguin 8 points 5 days ago

Better off waiting until it's down to normal game prices anyways.

[-] Artyom@lemm.ee 33 points 6 days ago

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.

[-] Lootboblin@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

RDR2 pc release was 13 months later and GTA5 pc release 17 months later. I wouldn’t be surprised if it takes at least 2 years with GTA6.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago

Probably not because GTA6 is planned to release on pc so they will do most of the work beforehand and the xbox is basically a glorified stripped down windows OS.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 days ago

Well, my initial reaction was "What year is it?". As far as I'm aware, this practice has largely fallen out of favor in the industry. And it's been more than a decade since the last GTA release, so their stance might have changed in a similar vein, or at least their management would have likely changed.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

See RDR2: No.

[-] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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

[-] Doom@ttrpg.network 16 points 6 days ago

Besides you don't wanna buy it at release

Haven't any of these people learned?

[-] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago

Given the state of gta 5, i wont buy it ever.

[-] easily3667@lemmus.org 6 points 6 days ago

Not me! I've never paid enough attention to rockstar to have realized they were stuck in the 2000s :(

[-] mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 14 points 6 days ago

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

[-] easily3667@lemmus.org 3 points 6 days ago

The city shape will be the same, the signs will be different

[-] mcqtom@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] WordBox@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] 0li0li@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

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!

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago
[-] easily3667@lemmus.org 6 points 6 days ago

Yeah that was never "funny" but it's way less funny now nazis are actually in power again.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

It's funny to me, I don't need your opinion, thanks.

[-] easily3667@lemmus.org 4 points 6 days ago

Then why are you posting things in public? That's the definition of wanting everyone's opinion.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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.

[-] bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 points 5 days ago
[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yes, precisely, that's what I'm saying. Even thought I didn't ask you either. And block.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

That’s OS based not device

[-] 0li0li@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Their controller, CPU and GPU are the bottleneck, not the OS.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

If we aren’t OS limited then we aren’t gamepad limited because you can just use a kb/m

[-] 0li0li@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I mean games got slower because of controllers (think arenafps and boomer shooters).

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

But that’s an OS imposed limitation not a hardware imposed one

[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

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

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 9 points 6 days ago

Consoles are glorified DRM machines so it's no wonder, really.

[-] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 3 points 6 days ago

Well that and extremely standardized platforms, with all the benefits that entails.

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Patience, the price will drop and the game will be just as good

[-] WordBox@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Is it not releasing to PC at full price in 1-3yr?

[-] SGG@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

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

[-] Lesrid@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago

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.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 48 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] Viri4thus@feddit.org 42 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 27 points 1 week ago

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

[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 8 points 6 days ago

I'll buy it for $0 when the PS5 gets emulation in Linux, just like Bloodborne

[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago

Fitgirl repack should happen before then

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 4 points 6 days ago

Yup. This is how I treat exclusives.

[-] cobysev@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

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.

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