[STEAM] GTA 6 not coming to PC at launch because console gamers are the ‘core consumer,’ CEO says

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Image via Rockstar Games "Rockstar always starts on console because I think with regard to a release like that you're judged by serving the core," Zelnick said in a new interview with

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. "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."

So, PC gamers aren't a "core" consumer in the eyes of Rockstar, apparently. But you can bet that, within a few years, GTA 6 will eventually come to PC with upgraded visuals and other buzzwords so that the game can continue to sell.

GTA 5 was released and re-released several times over, on multiple different console generations, along with a Definitive Edition that also came to PC. It's hard not to see this for what it is: a chance to make more money with subsequent different launches, and that's just the way it goes.

The expectations for GTA 6 are unfathomable, with Zelnick previously calling the game "the

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on Earth, in history." And according to a QA analyst at Rockstar's studio in India, it's

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to make sure the game's development crosses the finish line.

"We never claim success before it occurs," Zelnick said. "We have the most amazing creative teams. We not only encourage them to pursue their passions, we insist that they do it. We try to give them unlimited financial, creative human resources and then they aim to deliver perfection."

With Nov. 19 just about six months away and a massive marketing campaign looming over the summer, Zelnick said that "our goal is to deliver to consumers something that’s never been experienced before," when it comes to GTA 6, remarking that "being on the sidelines but pretty close to the front of the sidelines is very, very exciting and terrifying, because the expectations are so high."

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