Video Games Plus, a gaming retailer based out of Canada, and an independent gaming retailer known as Loot Box Gaming have both stated that they won't be selling GTA 6.

Not huge retailers in the grand scheme of things, but interesting to see at least some taking a stand especially when they are almost certainly losing out on money by doing so.

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[–] 256 points 4 months ago (25 children)

Video Game Plus pointed to its policy of not selling games that only offer digital codes, and as a result, it will not sell the biggest game of 2026. The retailer noted that this isn't a reflection of Rockstar Games or the game itself, but argued that it's part of their goal of preserving physical media.

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  • [–] 104 points 4 months ago (23 children)

    "The biggest game of 2026"

    Is it a terabyte or something?

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  • [–] 80 points 4 months ago (18 children)

    300GB apparently. So not far off. Especially with SSD prices these days.

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  • [–] 45 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    WTF...so much for optimization.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Blame the people wanting to be able to see every flies asshole. Textures get huge fast.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    It is. But I don't think it's any more weird than photo realistic horse balls that seem to have been all the rage a short while ago.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    We don't frequent the same internet circles apparently

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Not surprised they're large, mostly because the asset sizes are dictated by what screen resolution people play (yeah, 1440p fomo) and how big their monitors are (27" or bust), and how often they stream or make screenshots.

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  • [–] 24 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Man, they should offer disc anyway so gen-z can experience the "please insert disc 2 and press continue" while installing.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    It'll be the Windows 95 14-disk floppy set all over again, but this time with 18 DVDs

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    I see you were also traumatized by the floppy release. Lol

    I had pre-ordered the CD release from Babbage's, and went to pick that up. Being that I was only 15, I had to get a ride, and it was also 45 min each way, so this wasn't exactly easy for me.

    When I got home, I still hadn't realized they gave me the wrong one and cracked it open to see the horror. Said screw it, I wasn't going to be able to go back anytime soon and installed it for the next hour or more.

    Luckily, because this was pre-activation key (we remember those days, right? ... right??), when I took it back, they apologized and gave me the right one without much problem.

    Only installed once from 14 floppies, but it still was terrible.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Isn’t a series S as low as 256gb?

    That tells me the game needs to be under that

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I have a Series S and the usable storage is around the 360GB mark.

    I'm not going to buy GTA6 but imagine having to dedicate your whole console to 1 game :(

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  • [–] 26 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    No, but the packaging is a refrigerator box.

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  • [–] 60 points 4 months ago (11 children)

    Retailers should know that selling this is a poison pill. If no disc launches become the norm, then retailers will no longer serve a purpose in the industry.

    They've been trying to kill the second hand market for decades and this release is the biggest threat to it yet.

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  • [–] 31 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Yep. Nevermind the fact that the second hand market is fantastic advertising for the companies and the quality of their games, and a surefire way to manufacture future customers.

    I cant tell you how many brand new games I bought over the years, because I picked up a previous release used.

    Hell, Final Fantasy is a fine example.. I got FF4 used from a garage sale.. which lead to me buying 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15.. some of those games multiple times for new platforms.

    One used game, translated into additional sales of almost every game that followed.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    They don't want the secondhand market. There's no tangible profit there. They don't want you to buy games. There's tangible profit there only once. They want you to subscribe. They want recurring payments whether you use it or not. They want you to feel obliged to play certain games because you're already automatically sending the money. They do not give a shit if you finish a title. Eyes on the screen in their ecosystem is all they want. It doesn't matter if it's the console manufacturer or the game developer. GTA(#) has been hyped for decades, they don't need a physical GTAV to float around to convince a handful of people to buy GTAVI. GTA is not in the same market as FF

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    they should want the secondhand market for exactly the reasons @A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world described. a secondhand sale leading to future sales leads to subscriptions. the secondhand market isn't cutting into their profits, it's free advertising.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    free advertising that they've been paid to make, cause that second hand game wouldnt exist if they hadnt already gotten their pay from someone buying it.

    Used games are basically the companies getting paid, to advertise their games to others, who then.. as long as they are a half decent company, would more than likely pick up more customers in the future than they would have had otherwise.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I still can’t find Ultra HD discs in the shops either - it’s easier to find low res DVDs in 2026 than 4k discs even though most TVs sold now are 4k.

    I have become convinced that Sony are deliberately sabotaging their own format because Sony Pictures ran the numbers and concluded they’d make more money if everyone had to stream.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    A perpetual subscription is obviously a more stable source of income for corporations than a one-time purchase of a software package.

    Adobe figured that out more than a decade ago. I'm surprised that it has taken the legacy media companies this long to hop on that particular bandwagon.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I don't understand why ive been seeing so many people say this, that ship sailed long ago. Not only did the switch have games with download only codes, (not to mention that with switch 2 they have the "Game Key Card"), but PC games did this for years (maybe still do?) before moving away from physical discs entirely.

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  • [+] 64 points 4 months ago (12 children)
  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (6 children)

    I feel like devs and artists should know about this already since this shit keeps happening and that they're enabling this behaviour. Please correct me if you think Im saying some dumbass shit but I think at this point I can't excuse them.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (1 child)

    So, unionize?

    Also, is it hard for someone who managed to get hired by a AAA company to get hired someone else? You'd think they'd be more valued.

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  • [–] -4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    You can't correct an opinion, own it or shut up

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    Is it wrong to want to know better?

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  • [–] -3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    The game costs $100, the "lite" bullshit is just a poor deception.

    But the code leads to a download, right? Which is you owning it, just like all other digital media you've downloaded.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago

    "Ownership" should not imply the DRM you purchased it through can revoke said "ownership" whenever it becomes convenient. If you still have to ask permission to play something you "own", I don't call that ownership.

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  • [–] 31 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    [for consoles] if it doesn't have a disc, i won't pay more than $5 for it.

    unless it's stardew. then i'll buy it for every system.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I have only bought stardew valley once, because I only game on PC, but I definitely would buy it for multiple systems if I used them; it's already such good value that I feel like I'm stealing. I do love a passion project.

    I wonder if ConcernedApe has a proper desk yet

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  • we only have three copies. we'd have four but my wife says she'd get distracted at work if we got the android one. two for PC (different steam accounts so we can play together in different rooms) and one on playstation (so we can splitscreen).

    like, i feel weird buying this many copies but we're still below $60 total and it's my wife's favorite game so i don't really mind.

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  • [–] 28 points 4 months ago (21 children)

    No physical, no purchase. Period. I guess I'll need to wait.

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  • [+] -13 points 4 months ago (18 children)

    Should they sell you an SSD? 20 Blu-rays?

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Games would ship with multiple discs if required in the past. The issue with no disc at all is that the license cannot be transferred.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    HL2's original release came on 5 CDs, so yeah, games used to be multiple disk. its no big deal. Course, thats in the before times, from the long long ago.. When gamers werent so spoiled with broadband internet and instant gratification.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    That's an interesting example.

    HL2 controversially required you to sign in to a new online service upon installation even though you had a physical disc. Everybody was super pissed about it at the time.

    But now most PC gamers act like that service is the one good thing on earth.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Oh no, no no no. HL2 was far worse than that.

    HL2 made you install the full game, off of 5 CDs, and it installed steam as well.

    Then after the installation was complete, you had to register a steam account, and log in, so steam could decrypt your installed game, Which if you had a computer that wasnt bleeding edge in 2004, that your computer would be locked up and unusuable for a very long time. Mine was locked up for almost a full day processing the decryption.

    And I still say, to this day, that steam is bullshit. That I shouldnt be forced to run steam for single player games, but back then at least steam was just a server browser/matchmaker. It wasnt the big pseudo-wannabe digital walmart+facebook that it is today.. so you at least had an excuse to run it to play multiplayer games like HL2 deathmatch and CS:Source.

    But requiring it for any single player game is the height of bullshit.

    I wager most the people you find eagerly sucking off Valves cock as if its gods gift to gaming, are people 21 or under, who did not know a world before digital downloads, and who didnt know valve at their worst, before lawsuits and countries forced them to be marginally better.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Finally, a kindred soul. Valve is the worst thing to happen to PC gaming in decades.

    It annoys me how people whine about exclusives on epic when valve were the ones who forced steam down our throats in the first place with HL2.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    True, but, and I dont want to be in this position, but its a little bit different having their game on their service, and epic going out and paying other companies to drop their games off steam before release so they can have timed artificially exclusivity on epic.

    Those are two entirely different piles of bullshit.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago*

    The disc is still an issue for me even with the licensing issue. I like to resell and gift my console games and you can't do that without a disc.

    It's one of the things that makes me sad about PC gaming. Steam killed physical PC games and it sucks.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    If it is on 20 blu rays they better start shipping it on SSDs instead.

    But let's be honest, it's not going to be 2TB for the compressed installation. Probably around 100 to 200gb that will be needed, meaning it would need 2 discs at most.

    Now, I am pretty old, so I have played a fair few games that came on multiple Disks, CDs and DVDs. Some of my favourite games are on 4 discs.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Somebody said that the game is 300GB, BluRay XL4 can hold 128GB, so that would be 3 discs. Of course if the game console can read XL4.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yea, but someone saying that and it being true are very different beasts. Rockstar have not said anything about install size. And that also ignores that compression is applied as well, which would make it smaller.

    Also... Oh no... 3 whole discs? What ever would they do!

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    20 blurays?

    If the game is 500gbs in size, and costs 100 fucking dollars, then goddamn yes it better include a fucking dedicated SSD.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    In the current economy people would buy the $100 game preinstalled on the SSD, then format the drive to use it with something else

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  • [–] 45 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I'm not buying GTA 6 anyway

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Same. I kinda liked gta 5. But i was more intrigued to play online with my friends. Remember the online trailers? People doing cool stuff and mess around in the sandbox? Yeah no, i forgot about people who would play gtao are people who play gta.

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    [–] 57 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    This game is way too overhyped and I've played GTA 3, San Andreas, 4 and 5.

    San Andreas was the best one for me, 4 was boring because of all the constant let's go play darts, let's go to the strip club especially with Roman fuck you Roman, 5 i completed because i was hoping that by the end i'd like it because it was worth it, it wasn't and 3 was ok but that was during the PS2 era so if i played it today might have different opinion.

    Haven't seen much about it or i just missed it other than it's a brother sister game and if it's like 4 and 5 i won't even bother watching a YT story video but if it's kinda like San Andreas then it might have a chance with me.

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I kinda liked the memes from 4. When online worked, I did the swing set glitch for hours at a time. 5 had the heist missions and those were fun.

    But everything was hampered by their dog shit shooting mechanics. In a game where you shoot this much, it shouldn’t feel so bad.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Same, Vice City and San Andreas are the only GTA games I enjoyed, got GTA 5 for free on Epic played it for a bit and got bored and dropped it, I do not like the photo real look, GTA works best with the slightly cartoons, janky graphics of San Andreas, the photo real shit has no soul

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago

    Can I order the disc and return it from my least favorite online marketplace after I use the code?

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