Grand Theft Auto 6 has not yet been officially announced by Rockstar Games, but it has already been adapted to the current launch of the next generation game … despite the fact that there is almost no chance that it will launch next to next-gen consoles later this year.
However, recent rumors claim that Sony Interactive Entertainment is trying to secure it GTA 6 as a timed exclusive for the upcoming PlayStation 5 to increase sales for the next-gen console, which would be devastating for Microsoft’s Xbox Series X. The details of this alleged Sony-Rockstar partnership are highly suspect, leading to Inverse to believe that these specific rumors are grounded. But there is every reason to believe that an exclusive release of GTA 6 on the PS5 is possibly based on past GTA launches.
YouTuber Foxy UK Games claimed he was hit by a wind $ 750,000,000 deal will be brochure between Sony and Rockstar to secure a 30-day exclusive launch of GTA 6 on the PS5 in a video he uploaded on August 10th. While an exclusive launch of GTA 6 on the PS5 would be a major win for Sony, the price tag added to this rumor is absolutely ridiculous, especially since it would not even be a PS5 launch title.
GTA 6 was reported too early in the development, and Rockstar has plans to support the current version of GTA Online well 2021. There is absolutely no chance GTA 6 will be released when the PS5 launches in the holidays in 2020, which means Sony would not be able to capitalize on the hype surrounding it GTA 6 to get gamers to buy the PS5 at launch instead of the Xbox Series X.
To make matters worse for this rumor, a $ 750 million case would pick up Sony’s business case.
Sony’s PlayStation company earned $ 1.15 billion in profits in the first financial quarter of 2020, the company announced in a report on August 4. That was the most that PlayStation has ever earned in the first four years in Sony’s entire history. The estimated $ 750 million GTA 6 deal would cost Sony 65 percent of its record-breaking PS profit. And for what? A moderate month of exclusivity on a multiplatform game?
To put this in perspective, it is estimated that it cost Sony somewhere in the $ 100 million ballpark to make The last of our part II. Donate $ 750 million to secure a month of GTA 6 exclusivity would cost them more than seven times the development of TLOU 2. They could instead invest that money in at least seven big budget AAA games.
In other words, this deal does not happen under the terms written by Foxy UK Games, but some alternative version with a very different price tag added the body impossible.
De Inverse INnalysis – GTA 3, GTA Vice City, en GTA: San Andreas launched all months on Sony consoles before they were released on the Xbox and PC. Rockstar launched GTA 4 simultaneously on the PS3 and Xbox 360, Sony’s end of time-honored exclusivity for the franchise.
Industry analyst Michael Pachter said Eurogamer in 2010 that Microsoft had paid Rockstar’s parent company, Take-Two Interactive, 75 million euros hold up GTA‘s PS exclusivity. But could Sony try to make another deal with the GTA-creator to advance in the highly controversial, next-gen console war?
Technically, Microsoft has more money to throw than Sony does for these types of big-budget deals. Plus with both consoles hurting without a monumental launch title, it becomes highly unlikely that either of the two can attempt timed exclusivity of GTA 6 to pull forward.
Could history repeat itself and see GTA 6 released exclusively from the port on the PS5? Or could Microsoft transfer Sony for a timed-exclusive launch of GTA 6 on the Series X after the delay of Halo infinite? We’ll have to wait until the announcement of Rockstar’s next big open world adventure to be sure.
GTA 6 is currently in development.
