![]() ![]() GTA V exceeded sales forecasts and set sales records straight out of the gate. It’s a snowball effect, and with it coming to next gen, there’s no sign this snowball will stop soon.” “It’s become The Game people buy when they get a new PS4 or Xbox One,” Zack Zwiezen, who covers GTA for Kotaku, says via direct message, adding, “All your friends and family have it and play it, so you should too. But for gaming’s great multigenerational juggernaut, which will be rereleased on the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S next holiday season, the launch of new hardware just means more revenue to come. And by some metrics, Rockstar Games’ golden goose is more popular than ever.įor most older games, the industry’s changeover to a new crop of consoles spells obsolescence. It’s already arguably the second-bestselling game of all time (not counting multiple publishers’ versions of Tetris), trailing only the continuously updated Minecraft, which came out in full almost two years before GTA V and is available on many more platforms, including low-priced mobile editions. But GTA V and its multiplayer component, Grand Theft Auto Online-which appeared on PS4 and Xbox One in November 2014 and on PC in April 2015-are still fresh in many millions of minds. It came out first for PS3 and Xbox 360 in September 2013, seven years and seven mainline Assassin’s Creed games ago. For me, GTA V feels like a distant memory-not just a relic of the PS4/Xbox One console generation that was eclipsed last week, but the generation before that. ![]()
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