A video game which, since it became online, is a real parallel life. You can’t say I’ll play a game of GTA, inside each server there are real communities: someone becomes the owner of a club, someone a prostitute, someone a policeman. You talk to other players, you team up, you organize raids, you traffic drugs, you arrest drug dealers, you plan a heist, or you simply meet up with friends around this alternative Los Angeles.
But we’ve been waiting for the release of GTA 6 for years, and at Rockstar they guarantee that it will be the most realistic experience ever, and considering the time they’re putting into it, we have to believe them, also because at Rockstar they don’t joke, and trailers they release (very sparingly) are breathtaking, like this one:
But why all this time? The problem is the hardware, because the consoles (XBOX and PlayStation) are not that powerful, so much so that those who want to play seriously now get a PC (and to have optimal performance you have to spend between 1500 and 2000 euros minimum). Sony, just over two years after the release of the PlayStation 5, launched a PlayStation 5 Pro for 900 euros to have 30% more performance, and made the chickens laugh (who bought it, at that point it’s worth getting a PC).
So much so that in the transition to the new consoles, the games have remained more or less the same, there has been little next gen.
So the release of GTA 6 continues to slip: it is currently scheduled for autumn next year, but who knows what hardware it will run on. For now we go from trailer to trailer (it seems another one will be released before the end of the year), from rumor to rumor, and the only way to play it would be to get hired by Rockstar. Or be Elon Musk and buy it.