Rockstar turned the franchise into a widely successful game-as-a-service that the company relies on to continuously appease investors, which is not the case for Valve and the Half-Life series.

Since then, some of Twitch's biggest personalities have continued to play GTA 5's online mode in front of hundreds of thousands of viewers. GTA Online was estimated to be making Rockstar $1,200 a minute during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The GTA Series Is Too Lucrative To Slip Into Limbo It might take years for Rockstar to polish the next chapter of its open-world adventure, but Grand Theft Auto has been so lucrative that Rockstar and Take-Two will likely do everything in their power to keep the gravy train rolling. The series makes up such a large portion of the company's profits that gamers are all but guaranteed a steady stream of GTA content in the future. GTA 5 and GTA Online continue to be gold mines for Rockstar's publicly traded parent company Take-Two Interactive even eight years after their launch. While there might be some vague similarities between GTA 6 and Half-Life 3's secretive development, Rockstar would never let its open-world series go dormant. Related: GTA 6 Needs To Refocus The Series On Actual Grand Theft Auto The opaqueness of Half-Life 3's development has become the subject of jokes and memes through the years, and some fans believe it may never be released. While the VR-exclusive prequel was universally acclaimed, it didn't provide the closure that Half-Life 3 was supposed to deliver and actually posed even more questions about where the series could go next. Gamers expecting a release sometime soon might be concerned Rockstar could leave GTA 6 in a permanent limbo state, like Valve's Half-Life 3 has been in for well over a decade, but that will never happen to GTA 6.īefore the 2020 release of Half-Life: Alyx, Valve's acclaimed sci-fi franchise had laid dormant for over a decade. Rockstar announced it would re-release an enhanced version of GTA 5 on next-gen consoles, and the most trustworthy reports about GTA 6 have claimed its years away. The next chapter of the open-world franchise is easily one of the most anticipated games out there right now, but recent news suggests that GTA 6 is actually nowhere near ready for launch. For years now, Rockstar Games fans have been scouring the internet for any possible hints about the status of Grand Theft Auto 6.

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