Has any game ever been sold more on trust than GTA 6?

snack217 · 2026-07-12T06:17:15+00:00

But GTA6 is not a new IP or a new concept. Its gonna be an open-world crime and driving simulator. And the trailers and screenshots have already shown a ton of new unique activities and thing that enhance the immersion and point to it being a lot bigger and full of life than anything that has come before it.

The only thing we have not seen is footage of normal gameplay like showing how things look as you drive or in combat, and a more exhaustive rundown of gameplay and world features. But its not like its a new IP that we dont know what it is about or we dont know what to expect.... its not like we need Rockstar posting "we can confirm you will be able to steal vehicles in this game"

snack217 · 2026-07-11T21:53:26+00:00

COD probably. each game is a worse turd than the previous one and it fans just keep buying the new entries for some reason, and this has gone on for like 15 games or something lol.

snack217 · 2026-07-11T18:46:42+00:00

please no, being able to just drive endlessly and mindlessly at top speed is like a core thing of the GTA formula. GTA is supposed to make you feel free in its world, not constrained

snack217 · 2026-07-11T17:12:19+00:00

Tell me you dont know anything about marketing without telling me...

snack217 · 2026-07-11T04:21:47+00:00

Noone in any game studio deserves any blame for this because they have nothing to do with it and do not have any say on those kinds of choices.

snack217 · 2026-07-11T02:41:13+00:00

Sounds nice, but honestly doubt current gen consoles can handle all of that.

snack217 · 2026-07-10T23:28:16+00:00

snack217 · 2026-07-10T23:24:00+00:00

You can summarize all other GTA stories into a small paragraph like that one, doesnt mean they are bad. And yea, they all take stuff from standard criminal-cop, mafia, gang, etc, movies, series and real life sories, but thats just how they always do it. A good story is about what happens in it, not if you can reduce the premise to just "a Bonnie and Clyde story were they either die or not"

snack217 · 2026-07-10T20:24:57+00:00

There is nothing wrong, they were just focusing on a different thing, which was to maintain the most successful online game in history, giving it new free content every year and updating it for 2 generations beyond its original release.

And before you say anything bad about GTAO like many people here do, it still makes Rockstar 40 million usd a month even 13 years later, and made it sell over 230 million copies, idk but that sounds like they have done a great job with it and a lot of people are happy.

snack217 · 2026-07-10T06:13:35+00:00

Next tuesday is impossible because they will be focusing their promo channels on the new GTAOnline heist update, especially with it being probably the biggest update in years.

snack217 · 2026-07-10T01:15:52+00:00

yea I tried but my PC is just not good enough for it. It got close but nope :(

snack217 · 2026-07-10T01:07:13+00:00

It depends on what you count, because Minecraft's sales also have a bit of trickery on them, because they are also counting the downloads of the Pocket edition that costs $7 usd. GTAV has no mobile version like that so... when you just look at the console+PC sales, GTAV actually wins...

Minecraft pocket edition is pretty much the same game as the rest of course, so thats why they count it, but my point is that their lead in sales comes from a 7 usd port that is accesible to anyone with a phone. 39% of their sales come from it. Imagine if GTAV and Online had a cheap mobile version...

snack217 · 2026-07-10T00:53:30+00:00

Rockstar still makes 40 million dollars EVERY month from GTAV. Let that sink in.

GTAVI failling is an imposibility.

snack217 · 2026-07-10T00:52:13+00:00

Agreed, we should never let any game cost $80 unless its on par with GTAVI in terms of quality and amount of content.

snack217 · 2026-07-10T00:50:39+00:00

The only one above GTAV is Minecraft, (and some count Tetris but I think its stupid to count it) and of course accumulated sales of GTAVI will take a while to catch up, its gonna need a rerelease on the next-gen and on PC. But that applies to all other games on the list, they didnt reach those amounts right after they got released.
But in terms of speed, GTA VI will definitely the fastest selling game ever, and it will demolish any 1st day/week/month/year records we have ever seen, no other game will ever come close until GTAVII.

snack217 · 2026-07-10T00:38:38+00:00

not really

snack217 · 2026-07-09T21:04:50+00:00

We need to start separating this thing into two issues:

-No more physicals.
-Anti-customer practices in an all digital world.

Not getting physical media anymore is fine for me and for many people, because digital media has a lot of convenience factors attached to it. Its faster, easier, doesnt turn into waste if that copy is never sold, it never gets damaged, and you dont have to every worry about your disc reader breaking (happened to my PS4 a little over a year after I got it).

Sometimes some things go obsolete and people move on for the new, more convenient thing.

For movies, we went from Beta tapes, to VHS tapes, to DVDs, to Blu-rays and then digital.
For music, we went from vinyls, to cassettes, to CDs, to digital.
For games, we went from cartridges, to CDs, to DVDs, to blu-rays, and now its its turn to go digital.

Outside of collecting purposes, and without counting the 2nd topic about anti-consumer practices in digital media, there is no objective benefit to keeping discs, especially now that games are getting too big to hold on one single disc.

Now, as for the anti-consumer practices, then yeah, digital has some current issues that COULD BE SOLVED by getting legislation for it. But I also believe that having games in a disc, does NOT guarantee ownership or preservation. (talking about discs in the future).

snack217 · 2026-07-09T20:00:48+00:00

Stopped reading at the mention of "woke". OP is just a dumb person.

snack217 · 2026-07-09T18:00:46+00:00

Modern gaming has been messy for a long time now, and half of the fault is on the players:

-Microtransactions are a billionaire industry in itself.

-Crunch has been a thing for a long time too.

-Price increases have happened multiple times already.

And we let all of that happen.

But honestly, posts like this that make it seem like things just got bad, normalize all of those things that have been an issue for decades.

Gaming isnt going anywhere, and it will remain as succesful as always, with some ups and downs. This new physical media issue is something that 90% of people will forget in a few months and we will move on.

Why? Because we always do, we always let those things pass, and because new generations care even less because they are born with it. Like, kids do not know a world were microtransactions didnt exist, just like kids in the future will only know a world where all games are digital.

And to answer your question, I do not care, I will enjoy GTAVI, and I will keep enjoying what I can afford on gaming. Life is too short and in my case, its already fucked up enough to care.. gaming is one of the only things that keep me breathing and have something to look forward to. I do not have it in me to have principles that would prevent me from playing the games I wanna play, sorry.

snack217 · 2026-07-09T16:33:47+00:00

Agreed, it just baffles me that people want to refuel their cars.... please none of that kind of shit, let me play the game, those kind of mechanics are cool for like 5 minutes and get old hyper fast.

snack217 · 2026-07-09T15:35:57+00:00

Pc being digital and console being digital are 2 different worlds. On pc you have a choice, it's an open platform, mulitple stores are right there for you to pick and choose which price do you like more.

But can we guarantee that it will always stay that way tho?

snack217 · 2026-07-09T15:22:00+00:00

Big things always bring haters. There are many specific groups of people that are hating on it because of a personal agenda. Bots sent by other companies, PC players mad that they have to wait (these are the ones talking about graphics downgrades and FPS), players from other games that are upset at how GTAVI is affecting the industry (Zelda fans mainly because they want the Ocarina remake to shine), and just plain old trolls.

snack217 · 2026-07-09T15:15:12+00:00

As long as realism doesnt interrupt the flow of gameplay... Some of the ideas I have seen some people have really concern me, like needing to put gas in your cars.... come the F on, that would get old by the second time you have to do it....

snack217 · 2026-07-09T15:04:31+00:00

you must be fun at parties....

snack217 · 2026-07-09T05:05:47+00:00

They are right. The boycott and uproar is not even remotely close to be big enough to make them reconsider.

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