Take-Two CEO says console and PC experiences are 'roughly the same,' which is a funny thing to say about a game with no PC version

So PC Gamer put a question to Strauss Zelnick about GTA roleplaying, and his answer was that the experiences on console and PC tend to be roughly the same. Which is a lovely sentiment. Shame there's no PC version of GTA 6 announced, so at launch the PC experience is going to be a black screen and a Twitch stream.

I get what he's actually saying. He's talking about the general shape of a Rockstar game across platforms, not making a promise about a port date. The man has spent the last few months deflecting every PC question back to Rockstar, so this is just more of the same. Still, you have to admire the confidence of describing parity between two things where one of them doesn't exist yet.

the roleplay angle is the interesting bit

What he was really being asked about is the RP scene, which lives and breathes on PC. FiveM, the servers, the whole ecosystem of people playing cops and robbers with mods. That's a huge chunk of why GTA 5 has had the legs it's had, and it's entirely a PC thing.

If Zelnick's saying the experiences are roughly the same, I read that as him saying they're not worried about the RP crowd drifting away. Which is either very relaxed or very optimistic, depending on whether you think a PC version turns up in 2027 or 2028.

Console and PC tend to be roughly the same, says the CEO of the company that isn't putting the game on PC yet.

I'm not expecting anything from this. It's a nothing answer to a question he probably didn't want to be asked. But it's going to be a long winter watching people build RP servers in their heads while the rest of us are on a PS5.

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