Rockstar Games continues its traditional approach of announcing its games only on consoles. Grand Craft Auto VI it’s only been confirmed for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S for 2025, but it’s more than clear to everyone that it’s coming to PC later. A former employee of this famous studio explains how Rockstar approaches platforms.
Mike York worked for Rockstar Games on Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption II as an animator, specifically on the Rockstar New England team in Andover, USA until 2017. So he’s not involved in GTA 6, but he’s convinced that nothing much has changed in society since then. According to York, Rockstar is prioritizing the best-selling platforms. At the time, the most important was the PlayStation, then the Xbox, and only third was the PC.
York reminds us that after Everyone has been playing on PlayStation for years now.which is why Rockstar chose Sony’s console as the main platform for GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2. Only after that there was Xbox and somewhere in the background there was PC.
For GTA 5, preference was given to the PS3 system; at the same time, a port for the Xbox 360 was in development, but they tried to get the most out of the PS3. “It was the best hardware at the time in a lot of ways, and we optimized the game primarily for that platform,” York explains of the PlayStation 3’s preferences in a video on the site. YouTube. “We ported the PS3 version to Xbox 360 and tested how it works. All this time, the PC version existed somewhere in the background and is only in third place.”
Rockstar is aware of the complexity of the PC version. It’s much more difficult to set up the game on PC due to the huge number of different hardware configurations.. To ensure high quality, more funding and a longer testing phase are required. That’s why GTA 5 was released first on PS3 and Xbox 360, then on PS4 and Xbox One, and only then came the PC version, almost two years after the first versions.
In this case, the developer pays attention to Advantages of the PC version over the console versions. The PC is usually more powerful, so developers can add additional graphical effects, increase the number of NPCs in certain scenes, or improve the quality of vegetation.
Source :Indian TV
