Can a single sport make the fortunes of a whole system? Within the case of Grand Theft Auto 6, it definitely could also be doable.
What appears to be taking form right here is that the PS5 Professional is an actual factor that’s occurring, and will probably be an improve over the bottom PS5 which ought to be out by vacation 2024. Ray-tracing, sooner rendering, upscaling, extra all-important Teraflops, the works. However what which means is that if Sony will get this out, and GTA 6 hits its goal launch date, Sony might discover themselves in a state of affairs the place the PS5 Professional is unequivocally the one finest place to play a sport that may be very clearly going to interrupt plenty of all-time speed-selling data in a short time.
The PS5 Professional may be very a lot nearer to being a actuality, it appears, than an upgraded Xbox unit previous Sequence X. Again in June of 2023, lower than a 12 months in the past, Phil Spencer talked about this concept particularly:
He “doesn’t really feel an crucial” to launch one other Xbox. “That’s not the suggestions we’re getting proper now. Proper now, we’re fairly set on the {hardware} we’ve got.”
That’s all nicely and good, as they have already got two energy ranges, an S and X, and so they have been more and more much less reliant on console gross sales, or at the very least so they are saying. Nonetheless, if that continues to be true, and Sony pushes ahead with the PS5 Professional, and Xbox retains the Sequence X, it’s much more of a motive to go to PlayStation for GTA 6, although that was clearly going to be the primary platform already, given Sony’s estimated 2:1 market place over Xbox.
That is additionally essential as a result of not like many trendy releases, Rockstar shouldn’t be concurrently releasing GTA 6 for PC. The concept shouldn’t be that they essentially couldn’t, however it’s primarily as a result of they’ll little doubt need to launch an “upgraded” model of the sport for PC a while later, and make these preliminary console gamers double dip with a bonus buy.
In order that’s essential, as a result of even primarily PC players must choose up GTA 6 on console, and I imply, who desires to attend 1-2 years for GTA 6, of all video games, to make it to PC. So if you need the finest {hardware} to play it on, by default, that’s most likely going to be a PS5 Professional, given these new specs and the obvious concept that Xbox shouldn’t be going to make a aggressive, upgraded system. One impediment to this working could also be worth, as there are rumors that due to {hardware} prices and Sony wanting higher revenue margins, the Professional may for as excessive as $600.
However normally, all of that is nice information for Sony, who might get a system/upgrade-selling sport with out it even needing to be their very own sport. One open query is that if GTA 6 truly makes it out in its 2025 window. Granted, it has been within the works for a very long time, however that is arguably one of the crucial essential online game releases of all time, and different AAA video games are often hit with a number of delays previous their first introduced date. However we’ll see.
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