With Grand Theft Auto 6 scheduled for launch later this 12 months, gamers of Grand Theft Auto On-line have been nervous about shedding all of the content material they paid cash for within the sport as soon as the brand new launch comes out with its personal model of GTA On-line. Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has revealed, nonetheless, that help for the unique GTA On-line will proceed in some kind.
Whereas he didn’t supply particular particulars, Zelnick spoke concerning the writer’s willingness to help its older titles, so long as there’s nonetheless curiosity within the participant base. For example, Zelnick pointed to NBA 2K On-line – a China-exclusive on-line sport launched again in 2012 – which was adopted up by the 2017 launch of NBA 2K On-line 2. The servers for each titles are nonetheless stay.
“I’m going to talk theoretically solely as a result of I’m not going to speak a few explicit undertaking when an announcement hasn’t been made,” Zelnick stated to IGN. “However usually talking, we help our properties when the shoppers are concerned with these titles. For example, we launched NBA 2K On-line in China, I feel initially in 2012 if I’m not mistaken. After which we launched NBA 2K On-line 2 in China in 2017. If I’m not mistaken. We didn’t sundown On-line 1. They each are nonetheless out there they usually serve shoppers they usually’re alive and we have now this large viewers.”
“So we’ve proven a willingness to help legacy titles when a group desires to be engaged with them.”
Whereas Zelnick has some extent in that individual occasion, writer Take-Two has additionally proven a willingness to close down the servers for a few of its older titles with the intention to promote newer releases within the franchise. A primary instance of this could be this 12 months’s closure of the WWE 2K23 servers, which introduced an finish to multiplayer in addition to group creations. This was achieved with the intention to get gamers that wish to deal with multiplayer to maneuver to the newer WWE 2K24, or await the upcoming WWE 2K25.
With regards to GTA On-line itself, issues might go both method. Each the writer, in addition to developer Rockstar Video games have invested fairly a little bit of money and time into the sport so as to add tonnes of content material over time. Curiously, Pink Useless On-line can be nonetheless stay, regardless of by no means reaching the heights of recognition that its GTA cousin did.
A latest report has indicated that GTA 6 would have some type of emphasis on user-generated content material. What this implies for the title, and whether or not we’ll see the user-generated content material additionally present up within the follow-up to GTA On-line, is at the moment unknown. Developer Rockstar has seemingly been in talks with the businesses behind Fortnite and Roblox, each of which have fairly a little bit of help for user-generated content material.
Grand Theft Auto 6 is slated for launch a while in Fall this 12 months. The sport is at the moment in improvement for PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S. There was no strong announcement but of a possible PC launch of the sport. Current rumours, nonetheless, have indicated that we would see the open-world title come to PC in early 2026.
