Grand Theft Auto V

November.

Next month will bring WOW Forever on the 4th, Ocarina of Time remake on the 5th, and GTA VI on the 26th.

Mm.

Will these games suck all the oxygen out of the room and make it impossible for indies to succeed? Should you avoid launching your game next month to dodge these behemoths? That's what we're gonna be talking about today on episode 595 of Coffee With Butterscotch, the weekly podcast for indie game developers.

Yeah.

You know what I mean? Like, why would it matter? We're not talking about...

I'm not even gonna get into GTA VI yet, but just, like, you are l- trying to launch your game next month.

You're trying to pick a launch date, and there's some weeks where there's bigger games coming out, like, that are in the indie space with everybody else.

Elvis Duran and the Morning Show.

You know, a few minutes ago, we were talking about GTA VI, which is coming out, and people are saying they're, they're gonna miss Thanksgiving dinner [laughs] with their parents-

I see

... and family.

Aw.

"It was a moment in time that meant a lot to people, and one of those moments where, once it's gone, you wish you appreciated it more.

GTA VI may take us," or some of us anyway, "back to simpler times."

Okay.

the best thing ever.

Like, the boys on the morning show were asked, asking, like, what, you know, what does GTA VI need to have? They need to have a variant of Pokemon Go.

That game was hilarious because it would, like, GPS track you or whatever, and you can walk, like, oh, at the Starbucks down the street you can get, you know, there's a Snorlax there.

You gotta go walk and get him, or you get to go into battles and join gyms.

With that, Bob, let's jump into the news.

Uh, not too much this week, but a lot of cool tidbits and a lot of GTA VI.

It's kinda crazy, Bob.

In a couple days we will be exactly one month away, one shower away from GTA VI.

It's true.

Well, that, I mean, the shower, you could say that for the last month, like-

G- Actually, let's just go into it 'cause... [laughs]

Yeah.

Ryan McCaffrey is on vacation.

So we've got new PlayStation and Xbox hardware to discuss, but we begin with the PC and GTA VI.

This week we learned that Rockstar reportedly plans to release GTA VI on PC during the first quarter of 2027.

That would certainly be sooner than I expected.

GamesBeat reported the news based on four sources who asked to remain anonymous.

Rockstar and parent company Take-Two have not commented.

So if true, this would mean GTA VI hits PC just a few months after it launches on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S on November 19th.

Which is just over a month away now.

Because, like, one of the reasons that GTA...

We've all kind of accepted that GTA VI is this, this kind of attention sucker, this cultural phenomenon that is gonna come in.

Oh, of course all these video games are getting out of the way of GTA VI.

Oh, of course it's gonna suck up all the air and everybody's time and, and money in November of this year.

But, um, I think to understand that, you have to see that number and just what...

So we're talking about something that is unprecedented, that is historically large numbers.

Um, a large part of that is because of the success of GTA Online.

Um, and worth noting that when GTA VI comes out in November, it will not have the online component.