PlayStation Devs Saved the Day for GTA Founders in the Early Days of the Billion Dollar Franchise

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PlayStation Devs Saved the Day for GTA Founders in the Early Days of the Billion Dollar Franchise

Every great story starts with limitations and is built upon the failures of experts who learned from their mistakes and built better things as they advanced. The story of Grand Theft Auto follows the same narrative.

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During the early development phase of GTA under DMA Design, the game was going through a very rough patch and was about to get shut down. The team was riddled with too many roadblocks hindering the game’s overall experience until the devs from PlayStation entered the story to save the day and turn the tides around for the game.

GTA founders owe a large part of their success to PlayStation devs

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During the early development ******* in the lifespan of GTA in the 1990s, the team at DMA seemed to have bitten off more than they could chew; they had created a game that was trying to aim for the stars without being able to stay airborne for even five minutes. This was a major concern, especially with the release date nearing.

The game started as a race-and-chase game where players would get to play as cops as well as criminals, so largely it had to do with speeding chases across the streets of Liberty City. Eventually, the devs transitioned into a more nuanced way of storytelling and turned it into a mission-orientated game, which gave players a taste of an open-world experience; cars still played a huge role in it.

Mike Dailly, the programmer and artist behind Grand Theft Auto, gave his recollections of a tough time when the game was under constant threat of being canned throughout its 4-year-long development haul. He

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We had a major fallout over car collisions, too. They just didn’t work. The code was like spaghetti junction. I ranted at the team for letting it get in such a mess. But I think the guys who did the PlayStation version had a ******* challenge when we handed the game to them. It needed a huge amount of memory and the console just didn’t have it.

PlayStation devs walked in as messiahs and helped the team at DMA to improve the physics in their game. They put their prior experience working on other PlayStation titles to good use by assisting with the technical fixes needed to improve the collision system and make the game more playable.

The same GTA is now a billion-dollar franchise

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There is no chance that the team at DMA had any idea what a massive hit this game would turn out to be, especially because they were more focused on making it playable to start with. Had PlayStation devs not walked in, there is no saying what would have happened.

The devs not only helped improve the physics of the game; they also enabled the DMA team to optimize the game to run better on the console, ensuring a smoother playing experience and better performance.

They walked in while the game was crumbling, picked up the fallen pieces, and enabled the DMA team to create history as we now know it with GTA 6 being the most anticipated game on the market with a release window this year. What do you think about it? Let us know in the comments below.

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