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Grand Theft Auto V For Modern Platforms Confirmed

Posted by timothy on from the spree-killing-for-everyone dept.

jones_supa (887896) writes 'Since the release of the extremely successful Grand Theft Auto V on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, rumors about PC — and later also an Xbox One and PlayStation 4 — version have been floating around. Now it's official: Grand Theft Auto V will be released on Windows PC and Xbox One, in addition to PlayStation 4, this fall, publisher Rockstar Games announced today with a trailer. A post on Rockstar Newswire tells us that the ports will offer visual and technical improvements such as "increased draw distances, finer texture details, denser traffic and enhanced resolutions." All of the new GTA Online content that has been created and released since launch will be available also on the modern platforms. The PC version will exclusively include a video editor to allow players to put together their own clips of in-game action.'

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  1. This announcement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://i.imgur.com/2Gq4ycz.png

    1. Re:This announcement by Wootery · · Score: 2

      Neither does the other AC, apparently.

      That's not a link. This is a link.

  2. Great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now I can play a mediocre game with slightly better graphics! Definitely worth $60. Hopefully I'll be able to pick up some shitty first person shooter rehashes while I'm at it.

  3. PC version moderately exciting by drinkypoo · · Score: 2

    There have been a lot of really cool mods for earlier PC versions of GTA, so I'm pretty interested in this. Once it's been cracked, I might even buy it on sale, and install the cracked version.

    The lack of draw distance really is a major annoyance in the Xbox 360 version, so a fair number of people probably will rebuy the game. However, the online is extremely limp. It only takes a couple of weeks to do everything worth doing online.

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    1. Re:PC version moderately exciting by larry+bagina · · Score: 3, Funny

      All the ghetto thugs and gang bangers are too busy playing Office Space V, the game where you pretend to be a white collar IT worker cranking out TPS Reports, avoiding Lumberg, and browsing slashdot at work.

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    2. Re:PC version moderately exciting by CyberKnet · · Score: 2

      Gang bangers play The Sims, eh? Learn something new every day.

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    3. Re:PC version moderately exciting by hairyfeet · · Score: 2

      Dude how fricking OLD is your PC? Because my youngest games just fine and his hardware is nowhere near cutting edge.

      Take one $45 Asrock motherboard, add one Athlon X3 (easily found in the $45 range online) and use ACC to unlock the fourth core and voila! A 3.3Ghz quad. Throw in 6GB (we lucked into a 2GB chip cheap after ordering the 4GB, hence the odd amount), a 1TB HDD (gotten for $40 off of Tiger on sale) an HD7790 for $87 and a cheap case and there ya go, a PC that will play most games at an acceptable framerate that won't break the bank. Just choose your OS (I prefer Win 7, but I hear some like 8.1) and go to town. As a nice bonus he has plenty of room to upgrade down the line as the board will take 16GB of RAM, an octocore CPU, it even has crossfire should he want to pick up another HD7790 down the line.

      But if your PC was made in the last...ohhh...say 6 years? Unless its a Worst Buy Special or a craptop you really shouldn't have any problems throwing in a few parts and gaming just fine.

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  4. Meanwhile, promised DLC for existing customers... by AugstWest · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...still hasn't appeared.

    Eight+ months after the game came out, there's still no new single-player content. Why? Because all of their development efforts are going into getting the game onto new consoles.

    I understand the business sense of this, but still -- this situation is the exact opposite of what they promised when they released the game. So they make some huge announcements at/before E3, and still there's no mention of it.

    A huge chunk of their customer base already has the game for earlier consoles. Why would they buy it for the new one if they've already played all the content?

  5. Re:Meanwhile, promised DLC for existing customers. by danudwary · · Score: 2

    I'm sure the DLC team are the same people as the port team. One of the biggest-selling games of all time surely couldn't work on two wildly different aspects of the game at a time.

  6. Big deal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have no respect for a company which became successful and famous due to a game that was originally designed for the PC (the DOS version of the original GTA), but has now completely forgotten its roots and either releases (a) a shit PC port of their console-focused games (e.g. GTA IV), (b) doesn't release a PC port at all (Red Dead Redemption), or (c) takes their sweet fucking time to release the port at all when they should have had a PC version ready to go at the time the console versions were originally released. And yet gamers rewards these companies treating the fans that made them successful in the first place by giving them the most shit of attention and support. Fuck 'em.

    1. Re:Big deal by donscarletti · · Score: 4, Informative

      I have no respect for a company which became successful and famous due to a game that was originally designed for the PC (the DOS version of the original GTA), but has now completely forgotten its roots and either releases (a) a shit PC port of their console-focused games (e.g. GTA IV), (b) doesn't release a PC port at all (Red Dead Redemption)

      GTA was by DMA Design (now Rockstar North), Red Dead Redemption was by Rockstar San Diego (formerly Angel Studios), completely unrelated companies / teams, although currently they have the same owner. Interestingly enough, DMA's breakthrough hit was not GTA nor was it on DOS, it was Lemmings on Amiga. However, from the start they were a very console friendly company, releasing versions for NES, SNES and Sega and published through Nintendo exclusively for a time (Unirally, Body Harvest). All before GTA 1 came out.

      However in 1999, two years after GTA, DMA was bought out by Take Two Interactive (owner of the "Rockstar" brand) and probably lost a fair amount of control over things like release platforms. So I think it's pretty much understandable.

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  7. I stopped playing the console version by WormholeFiend · · Score: 2

    because I got tired of waiting for the mission creator.

  8. Re:Meanwhile, promised DLC for existing customers. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why would they buy it for the new one if they've already played all the content?

    Because of the shiny! The shiny damn-it! The SHINY!
    Pretty graphics are what make a game awesome - so buy the game anew and get more awesomer graphics! It must be better!

    THE SHINY!

  9. Re:Like the Path of Exile post... by NotDrWho · · Score: 2

    Just in case your actually being serious (and if you are, please seek help).

    I going to guess that it may have something to do with the fact that it's already sold 27 million copies on the PS3 and Xbox 360 and broke six world videogame sales records in its launch week alone--making it the best-selling videogame of 2013 by a WIDE margin.

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