Grand Theft Auto followers are beginning to get very nervous about GTA 6. The final time Rockstar Games launched a brand new Grand Theft Auto was in 2013. That’s seven years in the past. In the identical period of time, Activision has managed to launch 47 Call of Duty games. And sadly, it does not appear to be this wait goes to be over anytime quickly. At the second of publishing, Rockstar Games hasn’t introduced the following installment within the Grand Theft Auto sequence, but it surely has introduced that GTA 5 is coming to PS5 and Xbox Series X subsequent yr. And rumor has it Rockstar can also be making ready to port the game to PS6 and Xbox Series XXX shortly after.
While Grand Theft Auto followers knew the wait between GTA 5 and GTA 6 was going to be an extended one, I do not assume many suspected it could be this lengthy. And the longer it will get, the extra Grand Theft Auto followers get nervous. And sadly, that is simply the tip of the iceberg.
Rockstar Games has misplaced some essential members of its group just lately. In 2016, it misplaced the lead developer on the GTA sequence, Leslie Benzies. This was an enormous blow. Earlier this yr, one other haymaker caught GTA followers off guard when Dan Houser unexpectedly left the corporate he helped discovered again in 1998. Houser was greater than only a co-founder although, he was the studio’s head author, a producer, and the vice chairman of creativity. Alongside his brother Sam Houser, he was Rockstar Games.
At this level, GTA followers had been already out chilly on the bottom. But the unhealthy information did not cease there. This week it was revealed that Lazlow Jones additionally departed Rockstar Games earlier this yr after 20 years with the corporate. Jones was not solely a author and producer on the sequence, however the host of GTA radio stations.
Since GTA 5 launched in 2013, Rockstar Games has misplaced a number of outstanding, irreplaceable group members. Does this imply Rockstar Games is all of the sudden going to begin pumping out mediocre no games? No likelihood. Not solely does Rockstar Games have far an excessive amount of expertise for that too occur, but it surely has far too many assets to fail. That mentioned, a number of large departures within the matter of some years does counsel one thing is happening at Rockstar.
The departures actually warrant concern, and so does the success of GTA Online. You cannot even start to fathom how profitable GTA Online has been and the way a lot cash it prints for Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive. It’s the kind of success that may have elementary adjustments on the sequence. And we have already began to see these adjustments. Unlike its predecessor, GTA 5 didn’t get any single-player DLC. And it is not going to. Nor is GTA 6.
The larger GTA Online will get, the longer it stays and continues to push GTA 5 to the highest of the gross sales charts each month, the extra nervous some followers get that the normal Grand Theft Auto single-player construction is in peril. Again, will these issues be justified down the street? Who is aware of. Maybe not. Red Dead Redemption 2 is a fairly sturdy indication that Rockstar Games remains to be dedicated to the narrative-driven, single-player expertise. That mentioned, whereas the issues and worries might find yourself being for nothing that does not imply they don’t seem to be warranted. Rockstar Games and Grand Theft Auto are evolving. Only time will inform if it is for the higher.
