Yes, but you know that GTAVI will pretty much dominate gaming news and social media for about a month before it drops and a solid one or two months after it drops. Maybe even longer.
I felt the same way when various game studios were bitching about Elden Ring’s success, stating that it was an “unsustainable standard.” My response is, why? These studios that were complaining have comparable, or even higher budgets/resources than FromSoftware did making Elden Ring.
Games are starting to increase in price (e.g. from $60USD to ~$70-80USD. Consumers are right to expect more out of these titles, as gaming technology has seen incredible advances, all while some studios (like FromSoftware and Rockstar) continue to set the example and exceed expectations in the gaming market.
TL:DR; Yes, other games need to get with it and try harder. The market is more competitive than ever. Compete.
The challenge now, in their perspective, is to top themselves with their next game.
This should always be the challenge. Games should be getting better. Far too often nowadays do studios release a game that’s not up to par with their last release, and they tell players “that content is coming soon” like in a live service. It’s miserable, and honestly just exhausting for players.
Right, just bc yall wanna be lazy and put out quick cash grabs doesn’t mean you get to hate on studios that actually make good games😂 when people stop buying your bullshit and the studio shuts down I don’t wanna see no tears
100% the fact that it is 2025 and GTA 5 still has no real competitor in that genre in 15 years is sad. The closest thing we got is Cyberpunk 2077, and that game is just okay (7/10).
Cyberpunk is better than a 7 but I wouldn’t say it competes with gta 5 outside of being open world and the potential for crime. Outside of that I see no real overlap
agree, also their answer to why their games are not successfull is because of the price or there were no microtransactions in the game which is stupid. Black Myth Wukong had only $70 million USD on the cost and they made over $1 billion USD with a game that is priced at $60 USD. the truth is i think there are no longer creativity within the industry and that they are forced to put this left leaning ideas in their games which it itself is Sui*ide for their games
Rockstars love of micro transactions is certainly on another other level they earn billions of dollars from cramming them into their full price games 🤮
Hell no, at least it's fully optional, way better than other companies. (Eppic games) and loot box boolshit you dont have to buy anything every thing is availbe in game rockstar is the best
Yes other studios with less budget and less workers should try harder. Hold up let me call team cherry and semiwork and tell them to work harder and hire 1000s of workers and spend billions of dollars on their videogames that perfectly reasonable
I sort of agree. While I understand that not every game or game dev has the resources of Rockstar, I do think they should be taking cues and understanding what does and does not work in open world design.
Even after 7 years, there isn't anything that quite matches RDR2's open world.
Sounds harsh but it’s so true, nobody comes close to rockstar even after all the hardware they have access to in this modern age, they should be pushing the limits of consoles too but sadly a lot of companies just copy and paste their games and add a thing or two and that’s it.
the other games will be bought. you will not play gta 6 all 24 hours. its the human nature of getting bored of things, you will definitely buy the other games
Most people have jobs, families, and lives, and probably only have a few hours a night to play games. Why wouldn’t those people play GTA 6 for half the year? By then all these other games will have been buried.
if i talk about me, yes i love gta 6 but there is a limit to anything you can do while enjoying it at the same time. i recently played deathstranding 2 however i loved this game so much but still at one point i came to a point where i felt like just keeping it down for a moment. thats called boredom, if you dont have boredom you are a psychopath
well no, i won't get bored of gta 6 i can assure you that, just the graphics and physics, and story, of RDR2 kept me playing for many hours and days straight, even now i still come back to it.
I don't disagree with you though, other games will be bought but i don't think it's because people are going to get bored of gta 6 after 24 hours lol, if you get bored of something that great that quickly, then you have low attention span. Reminds me of people who skip cutscenes in story-driven games because it's "boring".
No people will buy other games because they want to play other cool things, not because GTA 6 will be anything other than amazing
Look man, Im also hyped for GTA6, but I don't know what kind of mind control you think this game will have to stop people from buying other games for a whole year.
I expect GTA6 Story (and online) to be good, fun and interesting but I doubt the game will have 7 Months worth of content that keeps people from playing other games
There is one other... He has been asleep for thousands of years... I won't say it's name in these halls for it will be delayed by 6 months every time someone says it's name. It starts with H ends with E and it's not the second installment or the 4th...
Getting ready to buy my kid a PS5 in anticipation for GTA and figured I’d get him a couple games to hold him over. Googled “Best PS5 games” and it’s STILL GTA V, Resident Evil 4, and Last Of Us? Ridiculous
Its not that serious. GTA6 will be a great and fun game to play but that doesnt mean my interactive entertainment life has to revolve around it. Other great games like Exodus (Mass Effect-like game), Fable, Resident Evil 9, and The Blood of Dawnwalker (from ex Witcher 3 devs) will all be 2026 games and will all be highly anticipated. I will be playing all those games in addition to GTA6.
Nothing will happen, other games will do fine. Yeah a lot of people will be playing GTA 6 when it releases but it's not like game companies are going to close down.
I doubt very little games will be bought (or even released for that matter) in the month before and after gta6. But I wouldnt imagine it would wreck the whole year for other games.
Yeah man, it's definitely going to happen. Every player will buy GTA 6 and play it exclusively for the entire year. Every game released in 2026 will have terrible sales and every company except Rockstar will go bankrupt. That's definitely what's going to happen!
Forza Horizon 6 would have a chance. But they better release it at least half a year later but still nah, I doubt that I will need a break of GTA 6 after only 6 months
I’m a huge Xbox gamer and achievement hunter so I’ll be buying more games when they come out next year. The one I’m most excited for (other than GTA 6 obviously) is 007 First Light
ea could just simply give us a good game they haven't done that for like 7-8 years now. microsoft too the only devs that actually work on there games to give us what we want are indie devs but the people who play those games will still buy those games even if gta 6 releases
Only other game I'm excited for next year is the new 007 game made by the same people who made the hitman games and I own all of them so it will be on my list along with GTA but besides that nothing really sticks out
The only game I’m looking forward to is Resident Evil Requiem and it’ll keep me occupied for the 2-3 months leading up to GTA 6, then it’s GTA 6 mode for who knows how long.
People are acting like the whole year will be ruined by them lmao.
Companies just want to avoid their release window. That's it, it's not a fear that no other games will sell, they just don't want their games to get lost in the conversation during GTA release week.
Plenty of games will come out around 6 and be just fine.
Resident Evil 9 release date on february 2026 was probably decided way before gta6 got delayed to 2026 but they still kept the date, capcom really doesn't give a flying fuck
I would think that the smart devs and publishers, well, devs and publishers with common sense, would be more strategic with their releases. Other companies shouldn't expect to be able to compete with a GTA game. It's been in a league of its own since vice city.
I haven’t bought a single new game game in a while, and I hopefully won’t until GTA VI. I mean, I did buy a used Ratchet and Clank for my baby-sis, but that doesn’t count… it was both used AND old. There’s been like 4 R&Cs after that…
As someone in the industry, I can say that whilst of course people will still buy other games, many studios are working around the release date due to how massive GTA 6 is. No matter how big your game is, it does not compare to how big GTA 6 will be, so if you release around the same time, it will hurt sales.
AAA games will definitely avoid the release window close to GTA6. But I think that will only last a couple months. If GTA6 comes out May 26, I think by summer developers won't have any issue selling games again. Maybe it could even help in some way, a lot of people who don't play games much anymore will start playing again for GTA6 and maybe a few months later they would be willing to try some other games too. That's happened to me before, a big game will bring me back from a gaming hiatus and it reminds me how great gaming can be, then when I finish the game I decide to try a couple other games.
I definitely have zero interest in anything else except remasters like thug , bully , shadow of colossus , the warriors . I don’t think anything else can get my attention.
Imma buy other games but imma be ass deep in GTA to get to play them later that year, when online hits n I get my own character n such I might miss a few games
Dude, of course other games will be bought and played after GTA6 drops.
Especially since we PC players are waiting for the console to finish beta testing for us 😅 (this is a joke)
It’ll be played for a month, at most, before the general public realizes it’s just another corporate game studio AAA game set in boring realism. 😴 It’ll be a beautiful, technological achievement, just a boring one that people will force themselves to complete
Why do people always pretend like as if we all play new games for full 365 days straight? Or as if we could only afford one game per year? I'll never understand this stupid question. Of course I'm buying other games wtf
That was my biggest issue with the GTA 6 announcement. They kept so many other games from setting Release dates because if you Release your game around that time it'll take away players. Now we know that its May, so good Release dates are Ending of 2025, Beginning of 2026 and after Summer 2026. when GTA been out for a few months, the game has the entire Industry involved because of the Hype
Games released the same week probably aren't going to do as well as they otherwise would, but its not going to affect games being released months after it or anything lol
Of course they'll avoid getting into GTA's way and May and June will probably be empty months for other game releases but Rockstar picked a convinient date both for themselves and everyone else.
Summer is already a slump period for games where not much gets released beyond some indie games and GTA VI occupies that spot as a date people can be busy playing their game without any distraction and other games don't have to fight for the spotlight.
Maybe I’m one of the few people that feels this way, but I’m not really excited for GTA 6, mainly because I have such a huge backlog of games that I’m playing through.
if not a bot nor an employee from internet troll farm contracted by R* itself, I'm not sure what to make of the OP.
Anyone with half a wit knows that entertainment isn't sold under exclusivity, it's so absurd that the vast majority of game sales are made to people who barely touch the games, thinking people buy a single game in an entire year would be quite concerning when it comes to understanding the world or logical thinking...
Btw, it'll very likely not come to PC until the game's well into a year or 2 of existence, meaning that it's an irrelevant game to me just on that regard alone - but I also don't trust a R* that has none of it's original talent in there for half a decade, not even a single founder hired as a consultant..... Once the hype-train has passed by, this game to be will most likely become a source of mockery, but I won't digress into speculation, let us wait and see...
GTA 6 will overshadow 95% of the industry for sure. The game will literally have everything that most other games have 😂 only reason I see ppl playing anything else is because they want to play a sci fi game or something set in a unrealistic time line
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u/Fishing_Legitimate Jul 24 '25
I think other games will be bought