I think people need to chill out about waiting for GTA 6

I’m sorry to inform you that GTA 6 isn’t out yet—and it might not be for a while longer than you already expect. Yes, another delay is possible, and I’m worried. Not about the game, actually, but about how the internet at large is losing it over the wait.

Like, this guy just got arrested for murder, and all he had to talk about was how he’d miss GTA 6.

If the first thought in your mind is akin to “maybe not, he might just get out in time to hear of another delay,” then I have bad news. I mean, that’s the first thought I had as well, but that’s only because my mind’s also been poisoned by GTA 6 wait meme-induced brain rot.

This is all extremely concerning. Seeing a guy who’s killed someone else, arguably also throwing his life away for an already stupid reason, just emptily stating that the worst thing is that he won’t get to play some game, is just rough. He’s, hopefully, the most extreme case out there, but even the lesser ones are just so annoying that I cannot believe I’m the only one having a hard time dealing with all the GTA wait memes.

Most GTA content on the internet right now seems to be less about the game, more about how long people have been waiting/ still have to wait for GTA 6, and it’s so tiresome. There are so many great games out there, some arguably better, and ones that’ll connect with you on an emotional level more deeply than GTA 6 can ever hope to, but it seemingly cannot be helped. This focus on GTA 6 stopped feeling like a fun joke we could all laugh about and turned into a full-blown obsession for quite some time now. I don’t want to get tired of the game before it’s even out.

Patience is a VIrtue

Most gamers nowadays are aware of the famous Shigeru Miyamoto quote that goes “A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.” What few gamers are aware of is that Miyamoto never actually said this, but the thought is right nonetheless, and shouldn’t need to be tagged to a famous developer to enter your mind.

If there’s anything that these years have taught us, it’s that waiting is just fine, because there’s just no lack of other great experiences to enjoy in the meantime. Most people nowadays will have a hard time even remembering how tough it was waiting for Half-Life 2, always haunted by the ever-looming shadow of cancellation because of its source code leak.

Similarly, we spent so many years waiting for Cyberpunk 2077, only to immediately forget about the wait upon release and shift gears to simply bashing it for being a broken mess. Nowadays, not even that matters, as the game ended up becoming “eventually good.” Like, even if you don’t care about the well-being of developers who will most certainly be put through incredibly tough crunch periods, you should stop obsessing over just one game.

Have you considered the possibility that you might not enjoy GTA 6 that much, even if it’s great?

Even if the game comes out in a technically great state, and you’re unaffected by all the wait memes, there’s one important thing I’d like you to consider. It’s been almost 15 years since GTA V‘s release, and I think the long years of just hyping it up have blinded people to a harsh truth.

GTA 5 has sold over 225 million units over its overall lifespan. A very large number of people playing it nowadays weren’t even born yet when it came out. While I’m sure young people still have many years of enjoying GTA ahead of them, many of those waiting for GTA 6 to solve all of gaming’s problems might’ve already matured out of enjoying GTA 6 the way we did the previous games in the series.

So many people have been desperately asking for GTA 6, even though GTA Online never stopped getting quality updates, and they even got the excellent Red Dead Redemption 2 in the meantime. Isn’t it possible that they, too, have partly outgrown GTA, and simply aren’t aware of it yet?

In any case, I’d really like the Internet at large to stop obsessing over GTA 6, so that it gets the slightest chance to hit us like a breath of fresh air, and not something that the whole gaming community believes it’s owed and that will have no chance to be anything other than beyond perfect.

The post I think people need to chill out about waiting for GTA 6 appeared first on Destructoid.

While Sony has been porting many of its games to the PC platform, especially in the last few years, the Xbox hasn’t had as much luck. Despite Microsoft’s embrace of a multiplatform approach, Sony seems to prefer exclusivity and the PC at most. Or so Insomniac Games would love to believe, firmly denying that its Spider-Man games would ever be ported to Xbox.

As per tech4gamers, Insomniac Games very bluntly stated that in an exchange on X, telling a fan that an Xbox port of Spider-Man is “not likely.” Naturally, Insomniac’s Marvel games are a Sony powerhouse, funded, produced, and published by the Japanese gaming giant, which unsurprisingly prefers to keep its first-party games in-house and available on its own platform.

However, Sony has increasingly played with multiplatform releases, porting games or even launching them on the PlayStation and PC simultaneously (i.e., the case of Helldivers 2). Insomniac itself once believed that Spider-Man would remain a first-party PlayStation exclusive, given that it’s backed and published by Sony, only for the games to eventually come out on Steam.

Microsoft’s embrace of multiplatformity seems to have also triggered similar sentiments at Sony. After the massive success of Helldivers 2‘s simultaneous launch (that, too, was published by Sony), the company seems more eager to do multiplatform releases. Microsoft, as I’ve said, only helped grow those sentiments, porting its own major first-party franchises over to the PlayStation, likely in anticipation of Sony doing the same.

It remains to be seen whether the Marvel games are part of this deal. A while ago, Sony did say that some franchises were console sellers first and foremost, and that porting them over would adversely affect PlayStation sales.

While that might be true, franchises don’t sell so well all the time, and porting even the most valuable games would be a smart move after some time spent in exclusivity (after sales start dipping).

The post Insomniac says Spider-Man won’t be coming to Xbox—but it once thought the same about PC appeared first on Destructoid.