I am
dying to get my hands on this game, I LOVE
the Grand Theft Auto series. The amount of time that I spend glued to the
screen playing Vice City would
probably make an optometrist cringe and might have something to with the
thickness of my glasses, but that is beside the point. San Andreas and GTA IV were also excellent games, so naturally I was particularly
excited for the release of GTA V. I stayed up to date (or so I thought) with
the news and watched all the trailers and videos but somehow I seemed to have
missed one small detail. The fact that
there was a version planned for the PS4
or Xbox One…
As I wrote
about in my premiere post I traded my Xbox
360 in during a deal at my local EB Games and put it all towards the
purchase of my Xbox One. So when I finally found out that I would be
missing out I was a tad bit disappointed.
Then I got to thinking, why any company that has put would has much money
into a game as Rockstar has, release
for current generation consoles without any plan to port onto the new
systems? I understand why they released
it on the 360 and PS3 because the player base on these
consoles is huge as you would expect after 8 years but in three months’ time a
good portion of that player base is going to be moving up.
Rockstar stated that they believe that
GTA V feels next-gen. When I read this I
immediately thought that the comment seems like a cop out, the reason it feels
that way right now is because next gen consoles haven’t been released. The moment we are all sitting behind our
bright and shiny new consoles I can guarantee you that no one is going to be
talking about how awesome the graphics in GTA
V are. Some of the new features are
very cool and the idea of switching seamlessly between the characters during
missions or whenever is absolutely cool I do not think it is ground breaking
enough to hold players to an outdated system.
To me
it seems like Rockstar has two
choices when it comes to how it is going to attack this problem with the new
consoles. The first choice is do
nothing, keep the game on the current consoles and never work on a port to the
new systems and walk away with a huge profit while their game is slowly
forgotten after three months after release.
I would like to hope and do believe that game designers/developers
actually do care about the longevity of their game and don’t want to see
something that they spent five years of their lives creating disappear in the
flood of new consoles and new titles.
The
second option that I see is that they take a small chunk of that $750 million
profit they made and develop the port to the new consoles and maybe a port for
the PC gaming guys (which I am slowly
becoming). I think it is fair to assume
that some people would buy the game again just to play it on their new console
and the people that have been holding out would finally pull the trigger and purchase
it. I think it would extend the life
span of their game exponentially. I know that I would absolutely buy this game
if they announced it for Xbox One,
but I can also say that nothing will make me go back and buy another 360 or PS3 just to play it. Because
I would rather spend that money on my Xbox
One and really I don’t want to own two consoles, I want all my games on one
gaming platform.
When it
comes down to it I think that just after the big excitement about the new
consoles has died down and just before Christmas we will see GTA V make the transition to next
gen.
By the
way if you are like me and don’t own a GTA
V but want to get a look at everything it has to offer, I have been
watching Lefty’s videos on YouTube.
He has a good mix of “walkthrough” and random gameplay. I will leave a link to his channel HERE.
How do
you feel about Rockstar’s decision? Do
you think it is something they will stick to or will they go back on their
word? I would love to hear your feedback, and as always thanks for stopping in
and see you in game!
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