The crazy excess surrounding GTA VI doesn’t come from nowhere. This article from The Conversation analyzes the expected success of Rockstar Games’ next game.
Released on December 5, 2023 and accumulating 150 million views in three weeks, the first trailer of the video game Grand Theft Auto VI has become iconic for gamers all over the world, eager to experience this game considered the most anticipated of all time. This trailer is the most viewed video on YouTube in 24 hours, with around 93 million views, excluding music videos, with only two clips from South Korean group BTS doing better.
The video game trailer GTA VI.
What a trailer for GTA VI it is also the most liked on YouTube, video games, series and films combined, demonstrating the satisfaction and enthusiasm of the fans. Every bit of information regarding the game is sought and many rumors are circulating which are sometimes very difficult to verify. As early as September 2022, when an 18-year-old hacker leaked 90 videos of GTA VI in the forums, this has resulted in endless debates and sometimes very far-fetched speculations.
A sulphurous universe, combined with elaborate and addictive gameplay
The origin of GTA dates back to 1987 with the creation of the DMA Design studio by David Jones, a 22-year-old software engineer and programmer. He and his team would quickly create several popular games, including Lemming. With developer Mike Dailly, they take on the challenge of programming a virtual city, a parallel open world where police officers and gangsters clash. However, after several weeks of testing, the developers realized that playing law-abiding police officers was not very fun and decided to focus the game on gangsters.
BBC report from DMA Design headquarters in 1996.
In 1995, David Scott Jones presented Race’n Chace to brothers Sam and Dan Houser of BMG Interactive who saw the potential of an adult-only game about criminals and agreed to launch the game, but under the name Grand Theft Auto. They recruit publicist Max Clifford to warn the media and politicians of the imminent release of a violent and immoral game, which creates a huge buzz and gives a sulphurous image to the GTA which is promoted massively and free of charge by the press.
Prohibited under 18 years, Grand Theft Auto released November 28, 1997 for PC, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64 and Gameboy Color. Thanks to the scandal, its universe and its technical qualities, it sold more than two million copies. Players can embody one of eight criminal characters and complete increasingly difficult and profitable missions for the mafia in Liberty City, a fictional version of New York. They are then sent to San Andreas (San Francisco) and Vice City (Miami).
The next versions of GTA will become increasingly sophisticated and violent, with players encouraged to cause maximum destruction and carnage with new weapons and vehicles. A true revolution in the world of video games, GTA III, designed specifically to take advantage of the capabilities of the PlayStation 2, will mark the franchise’s move into 3D with far greater narrative sophistication and visual design. Freedoms are even more important in a world of infinite possibilities and lives and in a game that has no end.
Presentation GTA IIIrated 97/100 on Metacritic.
The franchise GTA contributed greatly to the development of open worlds, where characters can go anywhere instead of following a prescribed path, and do anything instead of being limited to certain actions. This encourages players to let off steam by committing crimes that are not part of the basic missions, fueling the debate on the relationship between virtual and real violence.
After several subsequent acquisitions, the game publishers joined the Take-Two Interactive group under the name Rockstar Games, a division led by the Houser brothers. They will produce all editions of together GTA from the third until Dan’s departure in 2020. Sam remains today the president of Rockstar Games and executive producer of GTA VI. David Jones left in 2000 to found several subsequent game companies: Realtime Worlds, nWay, Reagent Games, and Denki.
The extraordinary performances of gta V
Contrary to what the name suggests, gta V is the seventh main installment in the video game series Grand Theft Auto, and the fifteenth release overall. Upon its release in 2013, gta V it is the most expensive game ever produced, with a budget of $265 million. The game, conceived as a film, is set in Los Santos, an impressive virtual copy of Los Angeles, in an atmosphere that always mixes hip-hop, criminal networks and a parody of American society.
Despite this considerable development cost, gta V it is the most profitable cultural product of all time, far ahead of the second, the film Avatars by James Cameron. Sold more than 190 million copies, it generated more than eight billion dollars in revenue, including one billion in the first three days. In total, 410 million units of games in the series GTA are gone, all versions combined.
The triumph of gta Va game produced as a feature film.
However, gta V it is not the best-selling video game, coming in second behind Minecraft and its 300 million copies. It should also be underlined that the phenomenon is global Fortnitereleased in 2017 and bringing together 236 million monthly active players, it generated revenue of 26 billion dollars at the end of 2022. However, this is thanks to microtransactions of purchasing virtual items from a multitude of franchises, and not thanks to the sale of the game same as it is free.
It may seem surprising that a video game reserved for an informed public and whose universe is rather exclusive becomes both a true reference and a blockbuster. The popularity of gta V it was amplified by the explosion of streaming, with thousands of viewers gathered on Twitch and YouTube channels dedicated to the game and, as of September 2023, live broadcasts were watched by an average of 152,000 simultaneous viewers. The creative ways of gta V they allow you to customize your avatar, create your own adventures, make a movie or simulate a virtual life.
gta V is a game with exceptional longevity that has been adapted for three different console generations: PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, then PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and the latest generation of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. For this latest launch in 2020, seven years after the game’s release, 20 million copies were sold. This latest update benefits from hyper-realistic graphics with revolutionary shadow, reflection, transparency and texture effects. gta V it is still one of the games that brings together the most monthly users, immediately behind Fortnite et call of Duty.
GTA VIa social phenomenon before its release
GTA VI it will be a return to the origins: the game is set in Vice City, in the Leonidas region, a city inspired by Miami in Florida already present in the first version. Rockstar Games also rides the fascination aroused Grand Theft Auto: Vice City published in 2003, e Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories released in 2014. In addition to conquering a new generation of players, GTA VI tries to capitalize on the nostalgia of adults who have played old versions of GTA during their adolescence.
The trailer of GTA VI refers to numerous news events, to the deviances of American society, and to memes of geek culture such as the woman with two hammers, the alligator in the swimming pool, the twerk on the roof of the car, the naked man chased by a policeman, the wild card from Florida and the yellow Oldsmobile in front of the Avalon Hotel in Miami. The huge number of views is no doubt partly due to people trying to identify all the views Easter eggs hidden in the video.
GTA VI seems to focus on a female character, Lucia, who will be paired with Jason in a modern version of “Bonnie and Clyde”. This will therefore be the first time GTA have a playable female character and also a possible romance between the two protagonists depending on the player’s choices. The prosocial relationship established with these characters will continue on social media, with these characters appearing to be developed to also be virtual influencers.
Graphic comparison between gta V et GTA VI.
You will have to wait at least a year and the year 2025 to play GTA VIthat is 12 years after the launch of gta V. Publisher Rockstar Games has reportedly specially developed a new version of its game engine, the Rockstar Advanced Game Engine 9 (RAGE 9), which would achieve a level of realism never seen before:
- a quality of clarity and precision of landscapes near and far that makes the game extremely engaging;
- a specific chronology with alternating days and nights, sunrises and sunsets;
- suggestive lighting effects, especially at night with artificial lighting;
- real meteorology with rain, wind, clouds and lightning, as well as their respective consequences on the environment;
- real-time simulated physics of water, steam, mud and sand;
- a very high density of animals: dogs, cats, deer, flamingos, dolphins, alligators, sea turtles, etc.;
- ultra-precise and specific deformation of vehicles during accidents;
- a proliferation of photorealistic AI-animated non-player characters interacting with each other;
- the bodies and clothes of the characters are much more refined, especially the skin, hair, eyes, accessories and jewels.
GTA VI it could cost two billion dollars to develop, eight times more gta V and twenty times more GTA IV. Rockstar Games therefore dedicates colossal resources to the creation of GTA VI which would become the most expensive game to come Red Dead Redemption II which required an investment of 500 million dollars and which was developed by… Rockstar Games. GTA VI it could make a billion dollars in 24 hours and even be profitable in the first week.
Oihab Allal-Chérif, professor of economics, Neoma Business School
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