The industry is eagerly awaiting the release date of GTA 6 - and in many cases it is already adjusting to the shift in its own title. Corresponding reports have in the meantime further deepened.
The entire video game industry is still looking forward to the release date of Grand Theft Auto VI, because Rockstar Games's action blockbuster will have important effects on numerous other publications. Already in the past it has been reported that publisher is preparing to postpone their own game publications in order to avoid GTA 6. In the meantime, this attitude has further concretized.
The journalist Christopher urgentlyThe Game BusinessHas listened to publishers and now reports that at least "three big video game publisher" are set to postpone their own games if necessary to avoid GTA 6.
The boss "one of the biggest game publisher worldwide" said in concrete terms: "The games from Rockstar always suck a lot of money and - more importantly - a lot of time from the market. We do not want to be close to it. We therefore develop several different plans for our games."
Similarly, similar things were heard last week at the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco, as Insider Tom Henderson reports. According to this, many studios are in waiting and would be eagerly observed what Rockstar Games does exactly with regard to the release of GTA 6. Before that, Jason Schreier had hadBloombergIn December last year, many publishers and competitors "wait as long as possible to show themselves to a release date [for their games]"-and all only because of rock stars action hit.
As urgently reports, the whole topic does not only have an impact on playing games. Ongoing live service games will also be affected by the GTA launch. According to this, two developers of "Top 10 Live Service Playing" are therefore not enabling significant content update for their games in the Launch-Windows from GTA 6. In this regard, a studio chief said that they would be pre or back their own publication for three weeks if necessary, simply to avoid the release time window of GTA 6.
