Ex-PlayStation boss: not everyone's waiting for GTA 6, and that's a problem for devs

Ex-PlayStation boss says devs need to reach people who don't care about GTA 6, even if Rockstar's long-awaited game is going to hit "with great force and power"

Caught this quote from the ex-PlayStation boss floating around today. He's basically saying the industry can't just bank on GTA 6 to carry everything, even though it's gonna land like a freight train. The actual line:

"We need to bring out more games for more people, which means actually you have to have more people making games"

I get where he's coming from. We're all counting down to November 19th, but there's a huge chunk of players who don't care about Leonida at all. They're on Switch, they're playing cozy stuff, they're deep into live service games that aren't GTA Online. If the whole industry just holds its breath for Rockstar, those people get left with nothing new for months.

What's funny is he's not wrong about the "great force and power" part either. GTA 6 is gonna vacuum up attention and sales like nothing else. But that's exactly why smaller devs might be terrified to launch anywhere near it. I've already seen a few indies push their fall dates to early 2027. Smart move, honestly.

The "more people making games" bit is the real kicker though. We've had so many layoffs the last two years, and now he's saying we need more devs? Yeah, no kidding. The pipeline is broken. You can't just will a bunch of AA games into existence when half the talent got shown the door.

Anyway, I'm still gonna be in Vice City day one, but I wouldn't mind having something else to play while the servers melt that first weekend.

Source: GamesRadar+ · Curated content.