GTA 6 Preorders Open and PC Players Are Already Being Ignored

Rockstar has officially kicked off preorders for GTA 6, and if you were hoping to throw money at a PC version, well, keep hoping. The game is launching on console first with no PC release date in sight, which is a tradition at this point for Rockstar but still stings every single time. The kicker? Industry estimates suggest PC players will represent somewhere around 50% of GTA 6's total lifetime sales. That's not a footnote, that's half your audience, and they're being told to sit in the hallway.

This isn't a new story. GTA 5 took about two years to reach PC after its console debut, and Red Dead Redemption 2 followed a similar pattern. Rockstar clearly views the PC release as a second wave revenue event rather than a day-one priority, and from a pure business standpoint it probably works out for them. But it does create this weird situation where PC players are financing the cultural phenomenon of a GTA launch secondhand, watching streams and reading reactions to a game they technically can't play yet. If you're a console owner, now is a fine time to get excited. If you're a PC-only player, maybe start a spreadsheet tracking how many months you'll be waiting.