It has been seven years sinceGrand Theft Auto 5first released on the PS3 and Xbox 360, and fans can’t contain their excitement for a possible next entry. While there hasn’t been any concrete evidence that could confirm whetherGrand Theft Auto 6is real, a new discovery over at the GTA forum might just have proved otherwise.
Since the release ofRed Dead Redemption 2back in 2018, fans have their eyes peeled for news regarding the next iteration of theGrand Theft Autofranchise. Rockstar Games, however, has been awfully quiet about what the studio is working on next and is currently focusing on releasing new DLC’s forGrand Theft Auto OnlineandRed Dead Online. While the company has confirmed more single-playerGrand Theft Autoexperiences are on the way, there’s still no news on when it will arrive.
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Fortunately, that seems to have changed as new evidence regardingGrand Theft Auto 6has just surfaced. A GTA forum user, while going through the code inRed Dead Redemption 2,stumbled upon a file called propsets.meta. The file contains the list of several weapons that were not part ofRDR 2orGTA 5’sarsenal. Some of the weapons that were discovered are Browning (Pistol), L1AL (Rifle), and AK47. As the user DerekLeet suggested, none of these weapons could have existed in theeraRed Dead Redemption 2is set in. Additionally, theGTA 5version of the AK47 rifle is referred to as “W_AR_ASSAULTRIFLE” whereas the one found here is “W_AR_AK47.”
What’s more interesting to note here is that these files have been present inRed Dead Redemption 2since its launch on PS4 and Xbox One in 2018. While this doesn’t necessarily confirmGrand Theft Auto 6, it adds up tothe never-ending hype that the game has generated.GTA 5meanwhile continues to sell incredibly well on current-gen platforms and may continue to do so when it launches on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S in 2021.
While it’s not confirmed whenGrand Theft Auto 6will release, what’s confirmed is that it will be vastly different from the recent Rockstar releases. After the vast criticismRed Dead Redemption 2received for its crunch filled development cycle, it was reported thatRockstar Games is taking a different approach to developingGTA 6. This means that the game may release in parts, more akin to episodic titles, or the live service ones. This, as Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier( back then at Kotaku), explained is being done to “mitigate stress and crunch.”
The crunch culture has been a huge part of the AAA games industry in the last few years and the most recent example of it isCyberpunk 2077. Seeing such an unoptimized launch,Grand Theft Autofans wantRockstar Games to take as much time as they need to developGTA 6.
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