In the same post talking about the new GTA game, Rockstar said the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S versions of GTA 5 and GTA Online will be releasing on March 15th. In the meantime, those who are still playing GTA 5 and GTA Online can look forward to the newest versions of those games that are releasing next month. ia0WAnKPhR- Rockstar Games February 4, 2022 We'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone in the GTA Online community for playing with us across 2021.Īs we enter our third console generation and with much more to come in 2022 and beyond, here is a look at just some of what’s on the way.
Instead, it said it would simply be sharing more news via the Rockstar Newswire whenever that information is available. Rockstar is in no rush to reveal any more than it needs to regarding its next blockbuster, but formally acknowledging its existence speaks volumes for player-developer relations, and the latter's place in time in 2022.Rockstar's brief comments about the next GTA game were shared in a blog post this week that confirmed "active development for the next entry in the Grand Theft Auto series is well underway." Players may – and probably will – look into that "well underway" part to speculate about how long it'll take for the next GTA game to release, but Rockstar of course wasn't sharing any information about that today. With that, the promise of a busier GTA Online between now and GTA 6 is Rockstar's dangling carrot, and, of course, a galvanization of the former's "unprecedented longevity".
Reddit forums contain players pining for the heady days of yore, when the Doomsday Heist update launched a million years ago in late 2017. For those players, they've grown up with GTA 5. It's easy to forget that players who were then 18 are marching towards 30 themselves now, and that's not taking into consideration those who might have picked up the game before drinking age in the UK.
I'm also in my mid-30s, which means GTA 5's arrival in 2013 doesn't feel all too long ago for me.
Still, as Moore said all the years ago, it's "a fanbase that hangs on every mere mention of the next chapter", and, to be fair, I am one of these players. As one of the biggest entertainment products of all time, Rockstar has set what feels like an impossibly high bar for itself, so much so it’s almost hard to imagine how future ventures will ever eclipse what it has now. Modern day GTA Online has so much content, that will now look and play better than ever, and this really feels like Grand Theft Auto 5’s swansong. Not that Rockstar needs me to say so, but it's a smart move. Rockstar is using this moment to push players towards GTA Online, to re-engage lapsed players, and to remind current players of what they can expect in the immediate future as they tide the gap to the next, almost certainly more substantial reveal. More information will come regarding release dates, setting, characters, trailers, and more, but we already knew that too.
These players will of course be able to migrate their profiles from last-gen consoles, with new PS5 adopters being given free access to GTA Online during their first three months on the block.įraming all of this with confirmation of GTA 6's existence is a shrewd move from Rockstar, because, ultimately, we already knew GTA 6 was in development. The so-called 'Career Builder' sounds like the Enterprise Starter Pack under a different guise, giving newbies access to businesses, properties and cars, with the option to restart a character and make use of these features extended to existing players. Being able to skip the Story Mode prologue from the off is a big one as it'll funnel players straight into servers with, potentially, zero know-how of how things work – even down to the controls. The announcement of an in-progress GTA 6 will steal the headlines here, but the most interesting part of Rockstar's latest Newswire is its plans for embedding new players quickly into GTA Online. GTA 6 news, official Rockstar updates, and all the rumors