{"id":86774,"date":"2026-07-29T09:59:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T13:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86774"},"modified":"2026-07-29T10:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:36:27","slug":"rockstar-co-founder-and-gta-co-creator-on-physical-games-companies-should-provide-it-if-people-want-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86774","title":{"rendered":"Rockstar Co-Founder And GTA Co-Creator On Physical Games: Companies Should Provide It If People Want It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dan Houser, the co-founder of Rockstar Games and co-creator of the GTA franchise, has commented on the ongoing discussion and debate about physical games in the wake of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/sony-confirms-playstation-disc-production-will-end-in-2028\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/sony-confirms-playstation-disc-production-will-end-in-2028\/\">Sony&#8217;s decision to stop supporting discs in 2028<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/rockstar-co-founder-says-if-people-want-physical-game-releases-then-companies-should-provide-it\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/rockstar-co-founder-says-if-people-want-physical-game-releases-then-companies-should-provide-it\">IGN<\/a>, Houser said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know that I care.&#8221; But he said, &#8220;If people want that, I think companies should provide it.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;But I don&#8217;t know that I personally care,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He went on to say that one of the benefits of digital games is &#8220;the ability to update and fix problems,&#8221; and this has been &#8220;really useful for the quality of games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1835427\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GTA_d859ba.jpg?w=636\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1835427\" \/>A scene from GTA 6. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Houser left Rockstar in 2020. His brother, Sam Houser, remains at Rockstar ahead of GTA 6&#8217;s release in November. Dan Houser now works at Absurd Ventures with another former Rockstar veteran, Lazlow Jones. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jones said in the IGN interview that he understands how good it can feel to pop a disc into a console, but he also appreciates being able to, for example, download a game at the airport and then play it on a flight. Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Houser, the co-founder of Rockstar Games and co-creator of the GTA franchise, has commented on the ongoing discussion and debate about physical games in the wake of Sony&#8217;s decision to stop supporting discs in 2028. Speaking to IGN, Houser said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know that I care.&#8221; But he said, &#8220;If people want that, I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":86776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86774"}],"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=86774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86777,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86774\/revisions\/86777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}