Grand Theft Auto VI and Grand Theft Auto Online Could Be Sold Separately; Rockstar Is Targeting Solid 30 FPS on Consoles, According to Former Animator

[ampersandrew@lemmy.world]

It makes a lot of sense to at least ask the question if you should split this game into two parts when each part has a very different pool of customers. I don't think they'll do it, because they want people in the online component to be present for multiplayer in the first place, but it makes sense to ask the question.

If this game is going to have issues running at 60 FPS on the PS5, I don't think 30 FPS is for the benefit of the Switch 2. Even if it was, Switch 2 is a platform that people will want to play GTA on. The tech that Rockstar is trying to push forward comes at the cost of frame rate. That's not making it shittier; it's making different trade-offs.

[_sideffect@lemmy.world]

Some games go to 120fps and are actually realistic.

GTA was never about realism, it just had a huge open world with tons of things to do.

[poke@sh.itjust.works]

It was, I misread the conversation above. I don't know what the situation was with the ps4->ps5 upgrade.

[kemsat@lemmy.world]

I hope so! I’m interested in buying the single player game, and have absolutely zero interest in the online experience.

[admin@sh.itjust.works]

30 fps wouldn't be bad if its consistent and stable, have you ever played on a low end PC at 15-22 fps?

[ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf]

30 fps
Lol, what kind of bushit is this? 30 fucking fps. Unplayable garbage.

[gladiusb@lemmy.world]

I'm not. I don't have a tricked out PC to wait LONGER THAN MY SON HAS BEEN ALIVE for a 30 frames AAA game.

That isn't AAA. It's pure corporate greed.

[lorty@lemmy.ml]

We'll get 60 and above on pc a while later anyway. Also the sold separately thing is probably just like they did with RDR2 where you could get everything or just the multiplayer part of the game, which I personally think is fine.

[cimmerian@lemmy.world]

This is going to be TARGETED 30fps for consoles...

Your overpriced pc will probably go above that. Calm down

[ampersandrew@lemmy.world]

What makes you think other games will be able to get away with $100 when plenty of them are having a tough time getting away with $70?

[gladiusb@lemmy.world]

You calm down. Arrogant prick.

[hadriscus@lemm.ee]

I played Oblivion at 8fps, bring it on

[0ops@lemm.ee]

I need a support group for this ffps.

Fixed that for ya

[nocturnalmorning@lemmy.world]

None that I've ever seen. It takes a lot of work to get good graphics even for 60 fps, a lot of optimization, that depending on the type of game, might be very expensive and time consuming to do.

[umbrella@lemmy.ml]

the thing is "a pc" is very vague.

you are probably talking about a pc several generations behind, in that case its awesome that the game even runs.

[kolanaki@pawb.social]

I have to assume they're targeting 30fps because that would be using all the bells and whistles like raytracing and running at 4k on the consoles; which are unlikely to be able to achieve 60fps or higher with all that shit on.

And, as they have done with literally every single GTA since 3: It likely won't release on PC at the same time. It will come 1-2 full years later.

[triflingtoad@sh.itjust.works]

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[risingswell@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I grew up breaking games to make them run under minimum settings. Subnautica has (or at least had) a Dev menu or some shit that you could make the game look like utter arse.

Got me like 18fps at 480p, worth it #playable for younger me.

If I get under 100fps at 4k now I'm unhappy. How times change.

[thcdenton@lemmy.world]

I know that feel bro

[skulblaka@sh.itjust.works]

Because Rockstar is going to do it and sell a gorillion copies, so it's basically a guarantee that everyone else will jump on the opportunity. And once every game is $100, what are people going to do, stop buying video games? I find that unlikely anymore. They'll bitch and complain about it and sales might drop a little on average but studios will survive. And now we have a new price floor set forever.