Crystal ball: Rockstar has always made PC players wait for its big releases, sometimes for a year or two. If a new report proves accurate, however, Grand Theft Auto VI could break that pattern. The reason may have less to do with goodwill toward PC gamers and more to do with where GTA's online future is likely to be built.
Rockstar plans to release the PC version of Grand Theft Auto VI as soon as Q1 2027, according to a GamesBeat report citing four industry sources. Rockstar has not responded to requests for comment, and there's no official announcement yet either.
Meanwhile, the long-awaited console version of GTA VI remains on track for November 19 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series. A Q1 2027 PC launch would mean a gap of just a few months.
That would be a sharp break from Rockstar's track record: GTA V launched on consoles in September 2013 and did not reach PC until April 2015, some 19 months later. In the case of Red Dead Redemption 2, the game arrived on consoles in October 2018 and on PC in November 2019.
This new report contradicts the company's public messaging, at least on the surface. In May, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick told Bloomberg that Rockstar "always starts on console" because it needs to serve its core audience first. In the same interview, he acknowledged that PC can account for 45% to 50% of sales on some titles.
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