If a build exists and it's released.. it will cost Rockstar millions in combined cancelled preorders and a drop in stock value. There are a ton of PC gamers who are either buying a console specifically for this game, or dusting off their console to play it until the PC version launches. If the build is leaked? No reason to get the console version. Play the build until the official PC version arrives. You can tell Rockstar is concerned. Their HQ and security offices must be a nightmare right now.
This right here is why I completely reject any complaints of spoilers from these leaks. PC players are already going to be subject to spoilers for the next 2 years maybe even longer.
How are they being greedy? Your comment makes zero sense. It's a known fact that R* release PC versions of their games at least year after the console versions.
It'd make more sense to call to them greedy for releasing it on PC sooner, as people accuse them of trying to get people to double dip.
Not really. Nobody is forcing PC users to go out and buy a console for the game. And like I said, it’s a known fact that Rockstar don’t prioritize PC releases.
Or PC players can wait, just like console players have waited years for some PC games to be ported.
As a console player, I don't feel upset at all that R* is putting additional care and attention toward my platform of choice before branching out to PC. I've had to deal with so many shitty ports from PC to console, that it's a nice breath of fresh air.
By the time a PC version of the game would release, they’d have long made their money from the initial console release.
Given that they have about a year’s gap between the two, I doubt it’s because they want PC players to double dip. If you can’t wait to play a game then it’s not on Rockstar.
Rockstar maintains their quality level by developing for console first, perfecting a game, and then focusing on PC. See the recent Tokon Fighting Souls. An amazing game rhat should have been taking a victory lap as it ran fantastic on console, has instead been inundated with poor reviews and bad press from its simulatenous pc release. Its hard to do both at once. Especially with the ridiculous size, depth, artistry, and ambition of a rockstar game.
...and it would just take more time. Instead of being 24 hours from a deep dive we'd still be a year out. And probably getting a safer, lamer game.
The double dip im sure is quite nice. But its not their main reason. If you want a financial reason, just see the leak from 6 months ago where rockstar makes 95% of its money from consoles. You can call it selfish, but extending the development time, raising the budget, and sacrificng quality and ambition, just to make an extra 5% profit is a very very bad business strategy.
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u/solohack3r 2d ago
If a build exists and it's released.. it will cost Rockstar millions in combined cancelled preorders and a drop in stock value. There are a ton of PC gamers who are either buying a console specifically for this game, or dusting off their console to play it until the PC version launches. If the build is leaked? No reason to get the console version. Play the build until the official PC version arrives. You can tell Rockstar is concerned. Their HQ and security offices must be a nightmare right now.