GTA San Andreas sees 135% Xbox participant spike following Definitive Version repair

A full three years after its woeful launch, Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Version has acquired a giant replace that has inspired gamers to both return to the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Version achievements or have a go at unlocking them for the primary time. Because the replace’s launch final week, the GTA San Andreas Xbox participant rely for the Definitive Version has seen a major enhance, revitalizing the open-world Xbox recreation.

Xbox gamers are returning to the GTA Trilogy after game-changing replace

• GTA San Andreas – Definitive Version has seen a 135% enhance in Xbox gamers
• This enhance follows the discharge of Title Replace 1.112, which restored the appear and feel of the unique video games
• GTA Vice Metropolis and GTA III have additionally seen important Xbox participant will increase

Utilizing a pattern dimension of over 2.4 million Xbox accounts, our Xbox Gameplay Chart information (courtesy of our partnership with GameInsights) exhibits that the Xbox participant rely for GTA San Andreas – Definitive Version has spiked by an enormous 135% following the discharge of Title Replace 1.112 on Tuesday, November 12.
Title Replace 1.112 for the GTA Trilogy Definitive Editions was a fairly important patch for followers of the sequence. When the remasters first launched in 2021, they had been an absolute mess and rightfully slammed by each critics and gamers. Whereas the three video games did obtain a number of updates that fastened a few of their extra obtrusive points, they nonetheless did not look fairly proper. With the Definitive Editions, developer Grove Avenue Video games stripped out the lighting from the originals and changed it with a extra real looking lighting mannequin. The remasters, particularly Vice Metropolis and San Andreas, felt off and lacked ambiance.

Now, with Title Replace 1.112, Rockstar has added a Basic Lighting mode to the remasters, which makes them really feel a lot nearer to the unique and, extra notably, restores that orange hazy glow again to San Andreas. After all, the replace does make a number of different fixes, however the brand new lighting choice actually has modified the sport and created fairly the excitement amongst followers of the sequence, so it is no shock to see gamers flock again to the basic.

It isn’t simply San Andreas that has seen a rise in gamers. Our information exhibits the Xbox participant rely for GTA Vice Metropolis – Definitive Version has risen by a chunky 300%. GTA III – Definitive Version’s Xbox participant rely has elevated by a whopping 398%.

Whereas Title Replace 1.112 is probably going the primary motive for the rise in gamers for all three of those video games, the truth that the trilogy is discounted by 60% within the Xbox Black Friday Sale 2024 is little doubt a contributing issue. It appears Rockstar has cleverly timed the discharge of this much-loved replace to coincide with the Black Friday gross sales, which is able to undoubtedly tempt gamers into buying the trilogy.

In different Grand Theft Auto information, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick not too long ago commented on the Xbox Collection S, saying the console’s efficiency is not a priority for the upcoming GTA 6.