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[ethomaz]

GTA was an unusual choice to start the show, and it's easy to mock the fact that Sony's "Future of Gaming" event opened with a trailer for a six year-old PlayStation 4 game, which itself is a port of a seven year-old PS3 game. Even so, this is a major coup for PlayStation. Grand Theft Auto 5 is the biggest console game in the world, and it remains in the charts in almost every market to this day, shifting millions each and every year. It has become the must own game for every new PS4 and Xbox One customer.

Yet even more significant than its consistent sales performance is the number of engaged players who continue to play its multiplayer mode, Grand Theft Auto Online. This speaks to one of the most interesting challenges facing both PlayStation and Xbox during this new console transition.

Previous generational shifts have all been about the unique games coming to these fancy new machines. What are the exclusives? How does the new FIFA look? What new games do we have coming that we've not seen before? This time, however, it's also about the games we've been playing for years and years.

PlayStation has immediately made a play for the GTA audience, and it's doing it in two stages. The first is making a significant amount of in-game currency available to PS4 owners "every month until the PS5 version of the game launches in 2021." This is Rockstar's way of keeping this audience engaged in its world while it works on the upgrade. Then, once that offer ends, PS5 owners are able to claim a free version of Grand Theft Auto Online -- as long as they do so within the first three months of launch.

This may not have been the most exciting thing to happen during last week's PS5 event, but it is a crucial move in Sony's mission to get players to upgrade to its new console quickly. And it's a strategy that will no doubt have been noted by the other big publishers, such as EA, Ubisoft and Activision -- which were all notably missing from last week's event.

Grand Theft Auto Online is a killer app for PlayStation 5 | Opinion

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[gojira96]

Will it have any changes, or will it just be a port from the PC version (2015)? As much as I liked the original release and PS4 version, the game has aged, and I don't see Rockstar investing much more in it (from fixing bugs to updating graphics and gameplay elements)

 

[Mister D]

No.

 

[JLMC469]

 

[Ar¢tos]

No.

Seeing how the game is still on the top 10 every single month, I would say yes...
I tried it for a few hours but couldn't get into it, but it seems there are a ton of players completely addicted to it.

 

[ComputerBlue]

Fuck GTA online.

Give me steady releases of great single player games back.

 

[JLMC469]

Seeing how the game is still on the top 10 every single month, I would say yes...
I tried it for a few hours but couldn't get into it, but it seems there are a ton of players completely addicted to it.

You will still be able to play it on XBOX One/Series X, PC and PS4 no?

 

[Ar¢tos]

You will still be able to play it on XBOX One/Series X and PS4 no?

Yeah, but you know how marketing works...

 

[Cravis]

I haven’t been able to stand the horrendous load times. Guess I might give it a spin with the new SSD.

 

[JLMC469]

Yeah, but you know how marketing works...

I know but how can a multi-platform game already out (last gen title) in that many platforms be a killer app for a new console (new gen)which most likely cost $500?

 

[Ar¢tos]

A single TV ad and all the casuals will want to buy a new console to play it with shinier graphics.
Don't underestimate the naivety of 12-16yos. yes the game is 18+,, but all 12yo+ play it, I see that with my dumb nephews and their friends.
That group of idiots would still be buying legacy fifas for vita every year if they were still releasing them, and I'm sure there are a lot more like them.

 

[Ristifer]

Not sure they know what “killer app” means.

 

[Dontero]

Watch it release on PS5/SEX and you will still have to wait 10 minutes to start online session.

 

[D.Final]

Watch it release on PS5/SEX and you will still have to wait 10 minutes to start online session.

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