Former Rockstar animator Mike York has stated that "it's gonna be a long time" before GTA 6 launches on PC, as Rockstar…
  • the_q@lemmy.worldEnglish
    143·
    11 months ago

    PS5 and Xbox are both x86 and essential PCs anyway so this is just more fake bullshitery from a shitty company.

    • PotjiePig@lemmy.worldEnglish
      82·
      11 months ago

      It’s much easier to bug test and build for a PS5 as they are all the same. To get a resource intensive game working on PC means a lot more resources going into tweaking texture packs etc for a myriad of combinations of graphics cards processors and drivers and drives. Running on similar architecture is only part of the problem.

      • the_q@lemmy.worldEnglish
        103·
        11 months ago

        So if they’d develop for PC first then it’d be easier to port to consoles. Got it.

        • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          4·
          11 months ago

          Developing for PCs first doesn’t remove the combinatory explosion of components they need to develop and test for. While developing for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, you only need to get things working with 3 different AMD GPUs and CPUs. If they only supported 3 different PC configurations and refuse to run Nvidia or Intel they would get skewered.

    • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
      51·
      11 months ago

      To be fair GTA V’s PC port had a bunch of improvements over consoles and was very well-optimized with a bunch of settings. It takes time to make a good port.

      • TomAwsm@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        GTA V was first developed for PS3/X360, so that’s not really a fair comparison.