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by Alice O'Connor, Nov 19, 2012 6:45am PSTOoh, aah, Grand Theft Auto 5, how awfully exciting. Last week brought a shiny new trailer, more screenshots and a flood of new details but, sadly, no new word on release platforms beyond Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Though the series' core games have always hit PC, it seems this is still up in the air for 5, or at least that's the official marketing message for now.
"Everything else is up for consideration. That's all I can give you," Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser told IGN. PC and Wii U players, cross those fingers.
"The main thing is we are not... we are a third-party publisher. We're not Nintendo, we're not Sony, we're not Microsoft. We love all of them in different ways. But we can do what we want wherever there's the appropriate business opportunity and chance to find a market. If that's on Apple we put something on Apple. Wherever it might be."
GTA 5 is coming to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in spring 2013 with a honking great huge chunk of the fictional West Coast. Look, here's last week's new trailer again:
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Ooh, aah, Grand Theft Auto V, how awfully exciting. Last week brought a shiny new trailer, more screenshots and a flood of new details but, sadly, no new word on release platforms beyond Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Though the series' core games have always hit PC, it seems this is still up in the air for V, or at least that's the official marketing message for now.
Ooh, aah, Grand Theft Auto V, how awfully exciting. Last week brought a shiny new trailer, more screenshots and a flood of new details but, sadly, no new word on release platforms beyond Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Though the series' core games have always hit PC, it seems this is still up in the air for V, or at least that's the official marketing message for now. : Shacknews
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After consideration, this is just marketing scam-speak to increase the console version's sales. GTA IV San Andreas and GTA IV were both released on PC something like 1 year after the consoles. The PC market for GTA V alone is bigger than the market for most well-doing multi-platform games. It's phenomenally huge. Red Dead Redemption didn't see a PC release, but that was because RStar were advised that there wasn't a market for westerns or whatever... so they probably didn't want to take the chance. Of course, the game did amazingly well.
Now they're using that blip on their track record to trick people into thinking the PC version of one of the biggest selling PC series of all time will not happen, in order to maximize the console sales.
Gratuity:
GTA on consoles is shit anyway. Look how aliased the screenshots for GTA V are in larger versions: I almost want to puke from the jaggies and cannot bear playing games that look like so anymore. The inevitable PC release will not only look a million bucks better, but will run at higher framerates and have more enjoyable controllability. Console gaming is dinosaurnish. And not the totally-awesome dinosaurish, but the one that's old, lame, and crippled, and can be tipped over with a slight poke from your pinkie, or boner the boner that you got from the last up-to-date PC game that you played, or from the massive savings you got while enacting your latest PC game shopping spree, where every weekend some publisher or developer has their entire catalog on sale for, often, 60% off, on Steam, GoG, Impulse, Origin (yuk, die origin), Gamefly, GamersGate, Get Games, GREENMAN GAMING (fuck yes, and then slap an additional 20% discount code on top of that 60% off, haha)... and more.
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Console gaming is dead, not only due to hardware limitations, but also due to contoll limitations and steep prices. Fact: the next gen of consoles are already hardware dated by today's PC standards. When they release in 2013/2014, they will be significantly behind modern PC computing. Buying one will be somewhat like buying a wii U today... but a bit better. There's a market, but people who like the greatest and largest games will be looking to alternate pastures.
According to an article released last week, PC is now the largest gaming platform, with a larger gaming base and active customers than any of the consoles. Do you really want to have to break out the dustbroom and start up the flux capacitor just to play a game with obscene jaggies?
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