![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The developer’s purchase of GTA role-playing mod maker Cfx.re, the team that makes FiveM and RedM, could signal its approach to building out the online side of GTA 6. But the gamemaker might try to attempt something different altogether. Rockstar doesn’t have the luxury of replacing Grand Theft Auto Online with a straight sequel. (Last year, the studio announced it was effectively winding down development of RDO to put resources toward GTA 6.) Rockstar wound up competing with itself with the launch of Red Dead Online in 2018, with GTA Online being the clear victor. Developers Valve and Blizzard took a separate approach to sequelizing two of their popular games, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Overwatch, effectively replacing them with Counter-Strike 2 and Overwatch 2 but to mixed results. Companies are often left competing with themselves, as with the recently launched Payday 3, which is struggling to match the player numbers of the decade-old, hugely popular Payday 2. Other developers have tried, and stumbled, to transition their loyal communities from one successful game to a follow-up. Rockstar can’t simply move its entire GTA Online player base and tech to a new town and a new game and ask everyone to start over. GTA 6 won’t launch on PC, but GTA 5 didn’t either It also has a new location, a modern-day Vice City (and locations beyond), and a decade’s worth of technological advancements to capitalize on for a potential online expansion for GTA 6. It has millions of loyal fans who will continue to play GTA Online for years to come, plus a new game to support, hopefully with the same longevity and vitality of GTA 5. With GTA 6 slated for 2025, Rockstar has a difficult needle to thread. Since launching in 2013, GTA Online is regularly played by millions of players - players who have invested hundreds of millions of hours (and dollars) in the game. Its predecessor, Grand Theft Auto 5, is one of the biggest games of all time Rockstar has sold more than 190 million copies of the game across three console generations, and following that massive success won’t be an easy task.īut Rockstar has another monumental challenge as GTA 6 creeps closer: delivering a successor, or companion, to Grand Theft Auto Online, the hugely successful multiplayer component built on GTA 5. As impressive as GTA 6 looks, it comes with immense expectations. Grand Theft Auto 6’s first trailer gives fans of the open-world crime franchise a peek at the first new GTA in more than a decade. ![]()
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