There were a lot of speculation about GTA 6, but they have come to a stop with a series of reports suggesting that Rockstar Games has canceled the sixth installment of Grand Theft Auto. Rockstar Games announced GTA 6 at E3 2016, but since then there haven’t any update on the same.
Movie News Guide reports that Grand Theft Auto 6 was canceled by the game developers to focus on GTA 5. Fans were hopeful that Rockstar Games would be present at the PlayStation Meeting in New York, but that didn’t happen.
Rockstar Games was expected to make announcements about GTA 6, but they proved with their absence that they aren’t focusing on the sixth installment at the moment.
The absence of Rockstar Games from the PlayStation Meeting in New York was a huge blow to the fans. They have been waiting for the announcement regarding GTA 6 for a while now and with the developers deciding to skip the event indicated the postponement of GTA 6’s development.
Game N Guide reported that the fans aren’t aware of the length of the delay of GTA 6. Rumor suggests that the release date for GTA 6 is set to be 2018. The rumor hints that next year’s E3 will shed some light on the game.
There have been reports of fake trailers and videos of GTA 6, and Rockstar Games has urged fans not to become victims to the clickbait promos. The developers have put in a lot of effort to re-engineer GTA 5 to run on the latest consoles.
Given the amount of hard work that the developers have put into reworking the GTA 5, they do not want the announcement of the GTA 6 to steal the thunder away from GTA 5.
E3 2016 might have seen the announcement of GTA 6, but the year belongs to GTA 5. Rockstar Games might think of bringing in GTA 6 for E3 2017. Given the kind of response GTA 5 still enjoys, the developers have to put in their best technologies for the game.
Rockstar Games isn’t ready to compromise on quality to make the fans happy. The players might want to lay their hands on GTA 6, but they are well aware of the fact that developers need adequate time to create the content and set right all the technicalities of a game before they can release it.
While the developers work on GTA 6 without compromising on the quality, the players can play GTA 5. The game is now an open world game that is available in both single and multiplayer modes. The reworked edition of GTA 5 works on all gaming consoles starting from Microsoft Windows to Xbox One.
GTA 5 released back in 2013, but it continues to be highly popular in the gaming fraternity. Research papers are being written on the game as well. According to Christian Times, researchers working at Intel Labs and Darmstadt University in Germany have worked on open world games and how they can provide data to train self-driving vehicles.
The published paper mentions GTA 5, talking about how realistic the gameplay is. These games are believed to be perfect for teaching the computer vision systems and helping them identify real life objects like lamp posts and pedestrians.
With research papers being worked out on GTA 5, there are going to be many more players who would want to play GTA 5. The current focus on GTA 5 explains Rockstar Games’ dedication towards the installment. It also helps understand why they want to improve the different features of GTA 5 further.