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[LordOcidax]

This is a lie, the game has been in development for 12 years…

 

[GladiusFrog]

Loved that artist breakdown of the environment art in the trailer. It's awesome seeing former team members share insider reactions and even better seeing how genuinely excited they are for the magic the current Rockstar team is creating.

 

[nani17]

Those old leaks a while back showed the game running on a GTX1080, which launched in 2016. So I can see it starting in 2018

 

[thekillergreece]

This is a lie, the game has been in development for 12 years…

The actual development started in 2018. That's not 12 years.

 

[LordOcidax]

The actual development started in 2018. That's not 12 years.

 

[Killer8]

The timing of development really kicking off after Red Dead 2 wrapped makes sense, but it's sad that Rockstar's ability to develop multiple games in parallel seems to have collapsed since the PS3 gen. They now seem to go from one big project to the next with all hands on deck until it's done. I can foresee not getting a Red Dead 3 until 2032 and GTA7 until 2040 with the way things are going.

 

[Puscifer]

Those old leaks a while back showed the game running on a GTX1080, which launched in 2016. So I can see it starting in 2018

It's funny, you can literally see the convenience store in the new trailer. Also, a lot of leaks had it running on a 3060ti in the footage so at least we know they're optimizing a pc version.

Every video from the GTA 6 leak : Dyllie : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

This compilation was made originally by YouTuber Dyllie. Another YouTuber made a longer video compiling these leaks but got deleted by Take-Two, so this is the...

archive.org

 

[Shaki12345]

This is a lie, the game has been in development for 12 years…

Of course. We should've asked you.

 

[Bojji]

RDR2 was a big ass project. GTA6 was maybe in pre production back then.

 

[HRK69]

Also, a lot of leaks had it running on a 3060ti in the footage so at least we know they're optimizing a pc version.

Obviously, a PC version is on the horizon but your comment doesn't make sense

By your logic, Nintendo would be optimizing every game for PC just because development happens on a PC, which isn't how it works

 

[nani17]

It's funny, you can literally see the convenience store in the new trailer. Also, a lot of leaks had it running on a 3060ti in the footage so at least we know they're optimizing a pc version.

Every video from the GTA 6 leak : Dyllie : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

This compilation was made originally by YouTuber Dyllie. Another YouTuber made a longer video compiling these leaks but got deleted by Take-Two, so this is the...

archive.org

Yes, a few leaks have different cards

 

[QLQ]

So it will take just as long as that masterpiece called "Starfield".

 

[LordOcidax]

Of course. We should've asked you.

 

[Shaki12345]

RDR2 was a big ass project. GTA6 was maybe in pre production back then.

RDR2 wasn't made by the GTA team.

 

[Bojji]

RDR2 wasn't made by the GTA team.

I bet it was made by vast majority of Rockstar. GTA team was doing what? Probably online shit for GTAO, they didn't need many people for that.

Games like RDR2 are made by hundreds of people.

 

[Killer8]

RDR2 wasn't made by the GTA team.

Every Rockstar studio including North worked on Red Dead 2.

 

[LordOcidax]

RDR2 wasn't made by the GTA team.

 

[Shaki12345]

Apparently I was wrong.

 

[Little Chicken]

So it will take just as long as that masterpiece called "Starfield".

Hopefully it's as good

 

[Puscifer]

Obviously, a PC version is on the horizon but your comment doesn't make sense

By your logic, Nintendo would be optimizing every game for PC just because development happens on a PC, which isn't how it works

I meant it in that they're targeting current hardware at the time vs some last minute optimization.

 

[LordOcidax]

Apparently I was wrong.

Almost every team from Rockstar was involved in the development of RDR2, the same for GTA6… Those games are massive.

 

[QLQ]

Hopefully it's as good

If that happens Rockstar goes for sale and MS buys them.

 

[adamsapple]

If that happens Rockstar goes for sale and MS buys them.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Why do development cycles matter for R* games? I don't see this concern for any other franchise.

 

[Spyxos]

That's a lot shorter than I thought.

 

[QLQ]

You're assuming in this hypothetical Game Pass still exists by then? Now that's a cute hypothetical, and quite pathetic as well.

 

[GudOlRub]

You mean to tell me they began developing this game immediately after they released their previous game?
Wow, I never would've guessed, I always thought they just developed patches, online content and scratched their balls for a couple years aftewards before getting to work on new projects...

 

[nial]

The timing of development really kicking off after Red Dead 2 wrapped makes sense, but it's sad that Rockstar's ability to develop multiple games in parallel seems to have collapsed since the PS3 gen. They now seem to go from one big project to the next with all hands on deck until it's done. I can foresee not getting a Red Dead 3 until 2032 and GTA7 until 2040 with the way things are going.

That's because they had all their studios under one single project since 2013. And they stopped external production for the most part.

 

[Denton]

Did anyone think anything else? RDR2 was a massive project that all R teams worked on, of course full production on GTA6 started only after that wrapped up.

 

[GudOlRub]

The timing of development really kicking off after Red Dead 2 wrapped makes sense, but it's sad that Rockstar's ability to develop multiple games in parallel seems to have collapsed since the PS3 gen. They now seem to go from one big project to the next with all hands on deck until it's done. I can foresee not getting a Red Dead 3 until 2032 and GTA7 until 2040 with the way things are going.

Anyone who paid a tiny bit of attention to RDR2's credits could've seen this coming.
that game has literally thousands of people credited and iirc one of the Houser brothers even said there were like around 1500 people working on that game concurrently at certain points.

Rockstar's race to achieving perfection has always been leading to this, each project gets bigger than the previous one and sadly resources nowadays don't scale well in order to achieve such goals and still manage their earlier gens' output.

 

[Evil Calvin]

The timing of development really kicking off after Red Dead 2 wrapped makes sense, but it's sad that Rockstar's ability to develop multiple games in parallel seems to have collapsed since the PS3 gen. They now seem to go from one big project to the next with all hands on deck until it's done. I can foresee not getting a Red Dead 3 until 2032 and GTA7 until 2040 with the way things are going.

Kind of like Bethesda:

2008 Fallout 3
2011 Skyrim
2015 Fallout 4
2023 Starfield
? Elder Scrolls 6

 

[IbizaPocholo]

GTA 6 Development Began 'In Earnest' in 2020 Following the 'Massive Success' of Red Dead Redemption 2, Take-Two Says - IGN

Development on GTA 6 began “in earnest” in 2020 following the "massive" success of Red Dead Redemption 2, Rockstar parent company Take-Two has said.

www.ign.com

The use of the phrase "in earnest" of course suggests development began even earlier in an early capacity. It's worth noting that Red Dead Redemption 2 came out in 2018, so we're probably looking at a total development time for GTA 6 of at least eight years by the time it comes out. GTA 6's development cost so far is estimated to be over $1 billion, which would make it the most expensive video game of all time.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Recent earnings report, Straus said development began in earnest in 2020. Apparently they were scouting locations in 2018-2019 in Miami and other places as well.

 

[SILKYSMOOTH30FPS]

Anything, including mmo's taking over 5 years to develop is ridiculous. A whole generation of consoles comes and goes, and they're still not ready to release their ONE game. Not good.