After more than 10 years of waiting and a lot of rumors and leaks, Rockstar Games finally officially revealed the first trailer of “Grand Theft Auto 6” to players at the beginning of this month, and confirmed that this super-heavy game will make players look forward to it. The sequel will be released on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S platforms in 2025. Unfortunately, this also means that this game will once again continue Rockstar Games’ past tradition, so players who are looking forward to the PC version may have to wait a little longer. According to former Rockstar Games developer Mike York, this is because the PC version is not their “top priority” at the moment.
In a recent interview with PCGamesN, Mike York said that if they had a larger team, they could have one team working on the PC version and another working on the Xbox version, and then be able to optimize for all three versions at the same time. . But in fact, this is not possible. Rockstar Games does not have enough money, resources and manpower to develop three versions at the same time, so it can only choose to prioritize the console version before starting to develop a port of the PC version. In addition, he also hopes that players will not blame the developers, but patiently give them more time to prepare.
The diversity of hardware on the PC platform will inevitably bring many challenges to porting. Compared with Xbox and PlayStation, two platforms with fixed hardware specifications, developers must ensure that this is the case when creating PC versions of games. The game can run smoothly on a variety of different equipment environments, such as various graphics cards and CPUs, ensuring that players with high-spec equipment can enjoy the best gaming experience, but they also have to worry about some mid-range equipment. player. This means that if the team wants to present the best optimization, it must invest more time and resources.
For now, “Grand Theft Auto 6” has only released the PS5 and Xbox Series 2》issuance model to make inferences.
“Grand Theft Auto V” was originally released on the PS3 and Xbox 360 platforms at the end of 2013, and a year later it was launched on the PS4 and Xbox One. It was not until early 2015 that the PC version was officially released. However, there have been many changes in the gaming industry in the past ten years, and there is currently no need to worry about the next generation version. Therefore, when the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S versions are officially developed, the team seems to be able to immediately Work begins on porting the PC version.
