If these leaked GTA Online sales figures are legit, you can see why Rockstar are holding off GTA 6's PC release

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Tldr:

  Console players are disproportionately more likely to be whales:

  GTA Online made $9,592,109 a week across September 2025 to April 2026. Nine million dollars a week! Why, you could buy almost all the DLC for a Paradox grand strategy game with that!

  Of the total, $8,245,974 was from console,

  Which makes sense, PC players are able to do free mods and more shit, even if not in GTA

  Console games are more lockdown by nature so it makes sense they pay more for micro transactions.

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is GTAO. So calling the disruptive hacks and cheating “free mods” is strange. Hacking and cheating in multiplayer games sucks.

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    • greybeard@feddit.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      On PC, you can play GTA5 online without GTAO. Want to just play tag with your friends online in GTA5? No need to engage in the microtransaction BS that is GTAO.

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• Modest_Toxic@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We all know why Rockstar is holding off on a PC release and you are a idiot if you don’t see it.

  1. Release it towards the end cycle of current gen consoles. Everyone buys
  2. Next gen consoles come out and they release a “updated” version of the game. People buy it again.
  3. Lastly they release the PC version. Yep you guessed it people buy it yet again.

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• workerONE@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  These are just normal distribution numbers for console, with more PS users than XBox. GTA V released September 2013 but the PC version didn’t come out until 2015. Most people who wanted it had it already. Also, I can see that people would prefer console because controller is probably better with all the driving.

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• OldChicoAle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I will be buying a second hand copy.

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