I don't think a development that happened in the last few weeks has sped up a massive ship like Rockstar. Console sales reports are on a lag, but August was a decade+ low point for hardware sales due to how expensive they are, so the addressable market is still looking likely to be far lower than what Rockstar's last two games had. Another good point that GamesBeat raised (solely conjecture, of course) is that the business of the online mode is different this time around. Roleplay servers are a big part of the appeal of GTAV, and on PC, that means people are enjoying that for free with no exposure to microtransactions on private servers. Rockstar hired those modders to roll that functionality into all versions of GTA6 Online this time around (this part isn't conjecture), and there are a lot of opportunities to pull in those PC customers from the jump. In other words, they probably care less about people double dipping when the box price of the game pales compared to GTA Online money.

IGN cited a GamesBeat article.

You are nuts to sleep on Castlevania. It’s $30! Much cheaper and it’ll be free.

Ahh wait for sales everything but the Nintendo titles will get discounted im sure

We don't know if its just an estimation or leak of actual plans. Also the source being unknown (for good reason, I'm not saying we should know his identity), it makes it hard to trust. Also Rockstar has a track record of delaying after initial announcement. So I am not really confident in "before April" release period.

There was another recent post going around Lemmy that GTA VI was a "single-player experience" (a Rockstar quote), with some other speculation that GTA:O, if/when it is revamped, will be a standalone product.

Yes it is. Thats why I specifically said GTA Online was talking about it.

GTAV Online wasnt so bad. I got alot of free money from them. And the odd lobby being fucked was a minor detail.

Wasnt so bad for me. Got lots of free money. The odd lobby would be fucked. But you could just switch to a new instance, or a private one if you were trying to do something. Not sure what its like now.

Yeah P2P was a bad call. And Im sure they will make it again.

I tried it on Linux the other day. Every time I spawned into the world I was immediately killed (by the same account) after glitching weirdly. I assume it's an exploit.

When I spawned myself into an "Invite Only" instance, since I was just wanting to play alone anyway, I was able to spawn but was then kicked out by Battleye after about 45 seconds.

What a cluster.

Linux-compatible anticheat does exist. If Rockstar wants to let Steam Deck players join GTAO, I don't see what's stopping them.

I got 5 free from somewhere, maybe epic?

https://store.rockstargames.com/game/buy-gta-vi - On PC we don't know (presumably the same as on consoles), but for consoles it will be 80 Euros / Dollars. And this is not even the full game (here called Standard Edition), because there are some stuff missing in this version, such access to some specific in game shops. For the full version (here called Ultimate Edition), it costs 100 Euros / Dollars.

Obligatory "pre-order" rant: BTW I don't get who people pre-order a digital only game. I have some sympathy for discs and cartridge, because they can be sold out. But there are none for this game.

I doubt it will have particularly high hardware requirements. It's built around base PS5 and even Xbox Series S, neither of which are very powerful systems compared to common PC gaming hardware.

We're talking about RX 6700 or RTX 2080 levels of performance for PS5 (which can be found used for around €/$ 200 with a bit of luck) and RX 6500 to 6600 (XT) for an Xbox One S equivalent, which is a bit cheaper. CPU performance isn't even worth going into, since it's trivial to match and exceed with a PC, even on a very modest budget.

This isn't just theoretical. I built a cheap PC around a used RTX 2080 a few years ago to match console performance (just in time for the Starfield release; I actually had a great time with this game) and it was pretty much spot-on with a bit of an advantage for the Nvidia GPU depending on the title - and with prices back then, I actually managed to build the entire PC for roughly the same price as a PS5 or Xbox Series X.

Even if we aim for the PS5 Pro as a recommended target, we're talking RX 9060 XT and RTX 5060 Ti (16 GB versions), which can be found for less than 500 bucks with a bit of luck. Not cheap, but not outrageous money, especially if dropped into an affordable AM4 system. The rumored 30 FPS limit even on PS5 Pro is very likely due to a lack of CPU processing power, which isn't an issue on PC.

Rockstar has every interest in the world to make this game run on as many PCs as possible, since GTA Online in particular is their main cash cow and they are hoping to convince as many players of GTA V Online to migrate over to the new game and buying as many Shark Cards as possible to speed up the grind again.

For as much as one has every right to hate the company for its labor practices and how it's treating the gaming community, the studio is employing some incredibly talented programmers and artists who have been known to cleverly squeeze every last bit of visual fidelity and simulation complexity out of relatively limited hardware (apart from the abysmal GTA IV PC port, of course).

This is speculation, of course. The PC port might be terrible, but I think after RDR2, this is unlikely.

So, in short, you won't have to spend two grand on a PC to play it, even in today's crazy hardware world. Chances are, if you already have a somewhat decent PC, you might only need to upgrade it a little. What are your specs?