Now that I\u2019ve spent more time with the Steam Machine, I can\u2019t stop myself from looking at Grand Theft Auto 6 looming on the horizon and thinking about how it\u2019d theoretically run on Valve\u2019s new mini gaming PC. Now, of course, it\u2019s going to be a year or two before Rockstar deigns to grace PC gamers with GTA 6, but once it does, it\u2019ll probably be an incredibly demanding PC game. <\/p>\n
Since the Steam Machine came out, its performance has been, well, heavily discussed online, to say the least. It\u2019s not hard to see why some folks are skeptical of Valve’s little PC \u2013 it does cost $1049 to start and is slightly slower than the PS5 most of the time. In spite of that, though, Rockstar\u2019s last couple of PC launches, namely Red Dead Redemption 2 and the Enhanced Edition of Grand Theft Auto V, have been monuments to the scalability of PC games. So the Steam Machine might be more capable of handling everyone\u2019s favorite crime simulator better than you might think. <\/p>\n
Now before the Steam Machine even has a chance of running Grand Theft Auto 6, Rockstar actually has to release it on PC. It\u2019s basically inevitable that a PC version will eventually come out, but, according to a Bloomberg interview with Take Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, Rockstar instead wants to focus on its core audience \u2013 whatever that means \u2013 on consoles before releasing a PC version.<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t new, GTA 5 didn\u2019t come out on PC until 2015, two years after it launched on PS3 and Xbox 360, and Red Dead Redemption 2 had a similar gap. But even in the eight years since Red Dead 2, PC gaming has exploded in popularity to the point where Zelnick himself admitted in that same interview with Bloomberg that PC can make up around 50% of a game\u2019s sales these days. <\/p>\n
Maybe Rockstar is just stuck in its ways a bit, but at least with Zelnick recognizing the huge market of PC gamers out there, maybe we won\u2019t have to wait a year and a half for a PC port. Maybe, it\u2019ll just be a year<\/em> instead. I\u2019ll be keeping my fingers crossed. <\/p>\n <\/p>\nGrand Theft Auto 6 Trailer 1 Stills<\/h3>\n