Grand Theft Auto V and its on-line counterpart (which could be very a lot the dominant half at this level) should rely among the many most-milked video games of all time. It is had a number of full-price iterations throughout three console generations, in a phenomenon that makes me glad to be a PC gamer, the place we’ve simply the one model that we are able to mod and muck round with to our desired requirements.
However in mild of Rockstar confirming that Grand Theft Auto 6 is now in development, maybe the collection is lastly prepared to maneuver on. This has been echoed by Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, who in an interview with Gamesindustry.biz mentioned that the collection cannot keep caught previously.
“You all the time need to be keen to be recent,” Zelnick mentioned. “You all the time need to be keen to convey shoppers what they need. The minute you attempt to shield the previous, you change into irrelevant.”
He added that he is “thrilled” that Rockstar is engaged on a brand new GTA recreation, and in addition went on to say that, despite their endless setbacks, NFTs are a legit factor. “We imagine that NFTs are actual, and why would not they be? We imagine in digital items and we have been promoting digital items for a really very long time,” he mentioned. “We imagine in uncommon items, we imagine in collectibles. The priority we’ve is that there is a hypothesis occurring.”
So we’ve a brand new GTA to stay up for, however will the web model be the NFT-driven dystopian metaverse, identical to the massive tech sages foretold?
There’s additionally a good bit of irony to be drawn from Zelnick’s assertion about not defending the previous. The GTA: Trilogy Definitive Version “significantly exceeded our commercial expectations,” in keeping with Zelnick, regardless of being a sloppy bundle of remastered PS2-era video games, and in March Rockstar are launching one more model of Grand Theft Auto V for current-gen consoles. Rehashing previous video games could be very a lot a part of Rockstar’s entire deal, so it is troublesome to say whether or not Zelnick’s phrases are simply company bluster, or an indication of change.
