Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick has mentioned the rising significance of the PC market, although stopped wanting outright confirming GTA 6 shall be heading to PC.
GTA 6 is presently slated for PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S, however there’s been no point out of a PC launch up to now. That is shocking in 2025, when massive releases are sometimes launched concurrently throughout all three platforms, or a minimum of comply with up quickly with PC.
Talking to IGN, Zelnick teased a PC launch of GTA 6 shall be on the way in which, however the firm tends to not “go throughout all platforms concurrently”.
“So with Civ 7 it is out there on console and PC and Change instantly,” Zelnick stated, making comparability with Firaxis’ just lately launched Civilization 7. “With regard to others in our lineup, we do not all the time go throughout all platforms concurrently. Traditionally, Rockstar has began with some platforms after which traditionally moved to different platforms.”
Curiously, Zelnick admitted that the PC model of a multiplatform sport can generate 40 p.c of total gross sales. Because of this, the PC platform is rising in significance.
“We’ve got seen PC turn out to be a way more vital a part of what was a console enterprise, and I would not be shocked to see that pattern proceed,” he stated.
Nonetheless, the main target for GTA 6 for now are the console releases, which Zelnick expects to spice up console gross sales in response.
“When you’ve gotten a giant title available in the market and we’ve got lots of them coming, traditionally that has bought consoles,” Zelnick stated.
“And I feel that may occur this 12 months. I do not suppose tariffs are going to be our good friend, however I feel there shall be a significant uptick in console gross sales in calendar ’25 due to the discharge schedule, not simply coming from us, however coming from others. So I am not involved about that [console sales falling]. I feel the pattern that you just’d need to deal with is that this growing share of the market that’s mirrored in PC.”
So why no PC launch for GTA 6 at current? As Zelnick famous, Rockstar has historically began with console releases up to now: GTA 5, for example, launched in November 2014 whereas the PC model (initially aiming for simultaneous launch) was delayed till April 2015.
Rockstar additionally has a torrid historical past with modders, together with the notorious Sizzling Espresso mod.
Simply final month, the corporate shut down an bold mod that put a playable model of GTA 4’s Liberty Metropolis inside GTA 5.
