Decline Grand Theft Auto VI - PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S (Fall 2025)

[Hagashager]

"Bruh...oh shit man! They canceled Concord! Oh fuck! Fire our artists and get someone who can do a Faux Brooklyn voice in the recording booth NOW!"

 

[911 Jumper]

The delay could indeed be because Rockstar is seeing the backlash against woke in gaming. Perhaps they are changing stuff in response, particularly in response to Concord's spectacular flop.

I do remember Rockstar saying that they weren't going to “punch down” with VI. Take-Two Interactive [Rockstar's parent] also had that DEI seminar at E3 back in 2021.

 

[Elttharion]

GTA getting delayed would be a disaster for the industry. I remember reading more about it a few months ago but this article has the gist of idea.

GTA 6 is being hailed as the savior of the gaming industry. With the decline in sales and uncertainty surrounding the gaming industry in 2024, analysts are looking to GTA 6 to revive the market. The game is expected to bring back players and generate renewed interest in video games. Rockstar Games, known for their perfectionism, is under immense pressure to deliver a flawless game without any delays.

In an article on gamesindustry.biz, Brendan Sinclair discusses the uncertainty and decline in the gaming industry in 2024. However, there is hope that GTA 6 will revive the industry and bring back players.

Basically the industry is in the shits and devs, publishers and hardware manufacturers are banking on GTA being such a huge hit that it would revitalize the entire industry and pull back people that stopped playing video games. Sales from the game, controllers and consoles, people subscribing to play online, etc. The idea is that the game would boost all of these, start attracting investors and the money would sorta trickle down and help fund other projects.

 

[I eat frozen vegetables]

Imagine being offered $7500 for your megahit of your song.

 

[Ezekiel]

Imagine being offered $7500 for your megahit of your song.

"It was $7,500 – for a buyout of any future royalties from the game – forever.”

With no royalties? Yeah, I wouldn't accept either. Doubt it's forever, unless Rockstar has changed the way they license songs. Oh, maybe that's why all these games lose their licensed songs years later. Because the pubs prefer short licenses in which they don't pay royalties on sales?



Average song.

 

[Drakortha]

GTA getting delayed would be a disaster for the industry.

Basically the industry is in the shits and devs, publishers and hardware manufacturers are banking on GTA being such a huge hit that it would revitalize the entire industry and pull back people that stopped playing video games.

I hope it gets delayed indefinitely. I don't want mainstream players to come back to gaming. Let it tumble and die in the eyes of NPC's everywhere, and all the big dev's and publishers fizzle out. Then these talentless vultures can move onto something else.

 

[AwesomeButton]

By 2027 woke will have gone completely out of fashion and woketards will be ridiculed like hippies in the 1980s. Rockstar may be accounting for that, but there are always reasons to delay a game, unrelated to creative concerns.

 

[Azalin]

The delay could indeed be because Rockstar is seeing the backlash against woke in gaming. Perhaps they are changing stuff in response, particularly in response to Concord's spectacular flop.

I do remember Rockstar saying that they weren't going to “punch down” with VI. Take-Two Interactive [Rockstar's parent] also had that DEI seminar at E3 back in 2021.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

For the record that damn train can go take a long ride off a short bridge.

 

[I eat frozen vegetables]

For the record that damn train can go take a long ride off a short bridge.

ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS FOLLOW THE DAMN TRAIN!

 

[Dark Souls II]

GTA was over the second they removed going to the gym and getting ripped. Not sure why anyone pay's attention to this dead franchise.

 

[911 Jumper]

 

[Baron Dupek]

In the GTA 6 leaks back in Sep. 2022, their was a scene where Lucia and Jason were at the strip club and they were talking with a guy named Dre. He was talking about how Lucia and Jason were staying at a property of a rap producer named "Boobie". and that Dre is teaming up with him for a new studio.

So the term "Diddy" is actually Scottish slang for boobie or boobs, literally. Well Rockstar North the primarily developers of GTA is from Scotland

is this a stretch? possibly, but it make sense. We could be seeing GTA's version of P.Diddy ...

 

[Gerrard]

I wonder if someone at Take Two got a case of nervous sweat after Concord.

 

[Caim]

I wonder if someone at Take Two got a case of nervous sweat after Concord.

Nah, they're too arrogant to fear that the same will happen to GTA.

 

[Gerrard]

I wonder if someone at Take Two got a case of nervous sweat after Concord.

Nah, they're too arrogant to fear that the same will happen to GTA.

Maybe they are, but I don't think all investors are that stupid, see the Ubisoft situation.

 

[911 Jumper]

P.Diddler could be a GTA character. It's what I thought when I saw this

 

[911 Jumper]

Interview with LAZLOW for anyone interested

 

[Tommy Gun]

Interview with LAZLOW for anyone interested

Only watched a bit, but my memory of that show is this.



A tramp who can't hardy sing is their 40 million hit.