GTA Metaverse? Rockstar Confirms 'GTA 6' Is In Active Production (forbes.com) 29
Rockstar Games recently acknowledged the "unprecedented longevity" of Grand Theft Auto V (and its online component Grand Theft Auto Online) — and confirmed their working on the next new game for the series.
But Forbes argues "The success of GTA Online itself may end up fundamentally changing the way Rockstar makes this series going forward..." The success of Grand Theft Auto 5 has been both a blessing and a curse. A blessing for Rockstar, making zillions from the success of GTA Online, and for those deeply invested in that world which has continually gotten new expansions and additions. But a curse for those waiting for GTA 6, as Rockstar is now about to release GTA 5 across three different generations, cementing its massive lead as the best-selling game in history, endlessly delaying a true sequel. Now, however, Rockstar has finally stated the obvious, they are working on the next GTA game, which we're all calling GTA 6, but Rockstar stops short of saying number that outright....
I don't know if we can say for sure if this is going to be GTA 6 specifically, either the name or the concept.... I can imagine a "new entry in the Grand Theft Auto series" being a massive game that is perhaps online from the start, including for its base campaign. And not to use the "m" word, but there are less compelling metaverses than what GTA Online has become, and Rockstar may want to lean into that even further to try to get ahead of competition trying to make their own virtual worlds. As such, I could see a future that blends a traditional numbered GTA sequel and GTA Online, and who knows what that would be called ("GTA World?" "GTA Infinite?"). Just saying, it may not be "GTA 6," exactly.
But Forbes argues "The success of GTA Online itself may end up fundamentally changing the way Rockstar makes this series going forward..." The success of Grand Theft Auto 5 has been both a blessing and a curse. A blessing for Rockstar, making zillions from the success of GTA Online, and for those deeply invested in that world which has continually gotten new expansions and additions. But a curse for those waiting for GTA 6, as Rockstar is now about to release GTA 5 across three different generations, cementing its massive lead as the best-selling game in history, endlessly delaying a true sequel. Now, however, Rockstar has finally stated the obvious, they are working on the next GTA game, which we're all calling GTA 6, but Rockstar stops short of saying number that outright....
I don't know if we can say for sure if this is going to be GTA 6 specifically, either the name or the concept.... I can imagine a "new entry in the Grand Theft Auto series" being a massive game that is perhaps online from the start, including for its base campaign. And not to use the "m" word, but there are less compelling metaverses than what GTA Online has become, and Rockstar may want to lean into that even further to try to get ahead of competition trying to make their own virtual worlds. As such, I could see a future that blends a traditional numbered GTA sequel and GTA Online, and who knows what that would be called ("GTA World?" "GTA Infinite?"). Just saying, it may not be "GTA 6," exactly.
This would be fun! (Score:3, Funny)
Can we run over Zukerberg in this version of GTA meta??
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If not, then mod!
Must be what getting old feels like (Score:1)
The over-emphasis in online play was what killed my interest in most games released within the last decade or so. Clearly, sales figures indicate most gamers enjoy playing against online opponents, so the financial motivation to develop a compelling single-player experience is no longer there. When I hear the news that the next installment of GTA may be an exclusively online experience, I can't help but feel a bit old [imdb.com].
That being said, my generation got to play Super Mario Brothers before it was "retro".
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The huge delay between console and PC version is what killed my interest, by the time it actually came out I'd lost interest, the in-your-face monetisation didn't help either. I've lost interest in AAA these days, there are literally thousands of good indie games to play instead, they don't come with loot boxes, season passes, etc.
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Sailwind [rawlionworkshop.com] is an indie game that came out in Alpha about 2 months ago I guess.
You would think big studios would hammer out games like that. Certainly they could. They dont. Fuck studios.
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yea I used to love online play, but anymore its just a nuisance. The least favorite thing for me is to get on GTA5 online, it has the exact same issues as every other PvP online for the last 20 something years... assholes sucking all the fun out of it
Graphics engine (Score:2)
Will their graphics engine have something to compete with Nanite and Lumen in Unreal engine? Also, will it natively support foveated rendering .. which will be needed for VR when we start getting 8K-per eye headsets.
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If you have that kind of money. Right now, high-end VR is a couple car payments away.
Metaverse = monetization? (Score:2)
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Apparently it is now. As far as I can tell, when companies - or, in this case, the financial press - say "metaverse" what they essentially mean is "a digital environment where companies can sell you digital stuff as if it they were physical items."
So you can buy digital clothes that can only be worn in a specific game, or digital music that can only be played on a virtual music player within a virtual environment. It's nothing really new, but the big difference is now you can pay real world prices for digit
Somebody wants their stock to crash... (Score:3)
Apparently. Meta-bullshit is still bullshit. Unless and until the porn industry makes this work (and they seem pretty non-interested at this time), there is not going to be any "metaverse" that has relevancy.
Re: Somebody wants their stock to crash... (Score:2, Informative)
Yes and it will remain bullshit until they can eliminate the gap between pixels and boost the resolution to at least 60 pixels per degree (even that is subpar, according to Michael Abrash the human eye can resolve 120 pixels per degree.) The current best mainstream-affordable VR headset manages about 18 pixels per degree.
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Indeed.
If you count all the "VR" hypes of the past, this must be the 3rd or 4th time this fails because the technology is just not ready.
Stop tryng to make metaverse happen (Score:3)
It feels like it's been barely 6 months since the term took off and it's already meaningless. There is a 0% chance GTA6 is VR only so does metaverse just mean a persistent online world? If so GTA Online is already a metaverse and so is WoW and every other MMORPG or MUD.
Will GTA6 will be "online only"? Almost certainly, that's plainly obvious and it will be "the" game for the next decade after that, or even longer. For big open world games with the type of budget GTA commands it really makes a lot of sense in this era and the future to have a server hosted world. It makes patching easier, expansions easier, anti-cheat easier,, etc.
What I want to know is where it will be located, at least at the start. GTA has always been "American" but they did do an expansion in London for GTA1 and I think that would be a very cool locale for the game in a modern setting . Really any other non-US city would be a welcome change of pace. I get American excess and culture is great fodder for sardonic skewering but we've been through it already.
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GTA online doesn't present much of a metaverse, it presents many little slices of virtual area which themselves have no real persistence. They're generated on demand as needed to accommodate players and the players don't affect them in any real way, except very temporarily. The spaces players can "permanently" affect are limited, and not really part of the map at all (as the system will generate multiples of them at the same time.)
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Makes everyone want to run right out and get the best meta ballgag
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mc is definitely more metaverse-ish than gta, that's for sure.
the metaverse in snow crash was supposed to be somehow representational of the real world, but that wasn't expanded on much except for one instance of hacking through a "wall" with a virtual sword...
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NeosVR is the current best representation of meta. It's basically SecondLife in VR with full access to Unity from within the game.
Cool (Score:2)
I'm hoping that as with GTA: San Andreas they go for a retro game again. (San Andreas came out in '04 and was set in '92... so it was 12 years of 'retro')
It's 2022 now... by the time this comes out and everyone has finally been able to get a current-generation console it will probably be 2025, which will mean that the time is ripe for a remake of GTA V, which came out in 2013.
Looking forward to it!
Metaverses (Score:2)
I've always loved the metaverses that the GTA games have been. They really feel like you're in some kind of alternate reality.
Zillions? (Score:2)
A blessing for Rockstar, making zillions from the success of GTA Online
A quick search says they have made over $6 billion. Which is a lot, but not even close to a Trillion and hardly uncountableor indeterminate. "Zillions" simply says the article writer couldn't be bothered to do even the most cursory investigation.
Online only? - no thanks (Score:4, Insightful)
If the next "instalment" is Online only, I wonder how that would impact sales?
I managed to stomach about an hour of online play in GTV 5 - probably back before they managed to fix the myriad of flaws that allowed players to completely destroy the experience. No idea if it's fixed now, don't care. Having someone scream obscenities at me, whilst throwing me around like a ragdoll, wasn't the best experience I've had in a game.
And we all know exactly where an online only GTA would go - into the realm of micropayments and grind.
Instead of being an escape from reality, it would become a replication of it.
No thanks.
Noooooooo (Score:2)
Donâ(TM)t run a well loved series :(
Grammar Nazi post (Score:2)
'and confirmed their working on' - Really? Does this seem even slightly right?
'and confirmed they are working on'
'and confirmed they're working on'
Take your pick, clods.