{"id":77268,"date":"2026-05-04T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77268"},"modified":"2026-05-04T17:36:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:36:26","slug":"why-gta-6-is-not-coming-to-pc-at-launch-and-its-not-due-to-a-playstation-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77268","title":{"rendered":"Why GTA 6 Is Not Coming To PC At Launch, And It’s Not Due To A PlayStation Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grand Theft Auto VI <\/a>is coming this November to PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, and while history suggests it will eventually come to PC, it won’t be there alongside the console editions at launch. Why is that?<\/p>\n

Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick told Bloomberg<\/a> that Rockstar Games is known to launch GTA games first on console before PC, and that is because, “I think with regard to a release like that you’re judged by serving the core [audience].”<\/p>\n

“Like really serving the core consumer. If your core consumer isn’t there, if they’re not served first and best, you kind of don’t hit your other consumers,” he said.<\/p>\n

Zelnick also pushed back against the theory that Sony’s co-marketing deal with Rockstar Games<\/a> is the reason why GTA 6 won’t come to PC at launch. “No,” Zelnick said. “I mean, historically Rockstar’s gone to console first.”<\/p>\n

Also in the interview, Zelnick talked about how important the PC market is today compared to years ago. When Zelnick joined Take-Two in 2007, he said PC sales made up only around 5% of total sales volumes for the NBA 2K series. That’s changed a lot since then. “Now with regard to a big title, PC can be 45, 50% of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grand Theft Auto VI is coming this November to PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, and while history suggests it will eventually come to PC, it won’t be there alongside the console editions at launch. Why is that? Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick told Bloomberg that Rockstar Games is known to launch GTA games first on console…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":77270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77271,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77268\/revisions\/77271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}