When Rockstar announced that GTA 6 preorders would begin this week, everyone started speculating that a new trailer must finally be imminent. After years of leaks and delays, the developer must be planning to finally show at least a little actual Vice City gameplay. But preorders are live and there’s no trailer in sight.
Nada. It’s wild for Rockstar to be asking us for a minimum $80 to preorder a game it hasn’t actually shown any gameplay for, right?
I know it’s been over four years since the triple-A class of game started going for $70, and Nintendo’s already been asking for $80, but it sure does chafe seeing GTA 6 preorders start at $80, and obnoxiously lock some gameplay behind a $100 “Ultimate Edition” right from the jump. The insult on top of injury is that Rockstar hasn’t even shown us the game.
GTA 6 has had two trailers. The first was a 90 second reveal trailer and the second was a 3-ish minute spotlight on protagonists Jason and Lucia, both cinematic and story-focused. Even all those 63 new GTA 6 images were mostly Ultimate Edition ads, character artwork, and photo mode-style shots. We have not seen GTA 6 being played. Not at all!
Yes, we’ve seen some years-old leaked gameplay. Yes, it’s a GTA game so we can probably pretty well guess what it plays like (a long conversation while driving then some snap-to-head gunplay). Dammit it’s the principle of the thing though. I feel like I’m getting mugged, and not in a fun GTARP kind of way.
The elephant in the room, of course, is that aside from educated speculation we don’t actually know when GTA 6 might launch on PC. So I’m not preordering nuthin’ because I don’t own a current generation console. It will come to PC eventually, though, and this doesn’t bode well for how Rockstar will treat us when it does.
This can’t be the first time a publisher has ever had the hubris to sell a game without a gameplay trailer, but it sure looks like the height of arrogance from Rockstar. I suppose it thinks GTA 6 is too big to fail. It’s probably right.
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