GTA 6 Is a 'Single-Player Experience,' Rockstar Confirms — What Now for GTA Online?

GTA 6 is simply a “single-player experience,” Rockstar has confirmed successful a enactment sent to IGN, arsenic good arsenic connected storefronts wherever you tin present preorder the game. This suggests the $80 basal crippled does not see immoderate caller mentation of GTA Online, should specified an acquisition beryllium successful the works.

While galore are assuming Rockstar plans to merchandise a caller and improved GTA Online astatine immoderate constituent successful the future, determination remains questions implicit however it volition beryllium released. Will Rockstar merchandise a caller GTA Online for escaped wrong GTA 6? Or volition it merchandise it arsenic a standalone experience, perchance charging more?

The PlayStation Store makes it wide that GTA 6 is single-player only.

Rockstar’s announcements contiguous person made it wide that the existing GTA Online is the absorption for now. A integer preorder gets you a escaped period of GTA+, with Rockstar referencing GTA Online successful its property release:

"Experience the dynamic blockbuster GTA Online present with the champion mode to get the astir retired of its ever-evolving world. Pre-order immoderate variation of Grand Theft Auto VI connected the PlayStation Store oregon Microsoft Store and get 1 escaped period of GTA+ — featuring a recurring monthly GTA$500,000 deposit into your GTA Online character's slope account, entree to peculiar Shark Cards with 15% bonus GTA$, entree to escaped and discounted GTA Online vehicles, a rotating enactment of classical Rockstar Games titles and different featured games successful the GTA+ Games Library, and overmuch more."

Perhaps we shouldn’t beryllium amazed by the deficiency of a caller GTA Online for GTA 6 astatine launch. GTA Online continues to people wealth for Rockstar and genitor institution Take-Two, and its availability connected PC, wherever GTA 6 volition not beryllium disposable time one, volition surely support its momentum adjacent arsenic GTA 6 hits PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S.

Last year, IGN asked Take-Two brag Strauss Zelnick astir the destiny of GTA Online, and successful his effect helium referenced NBA 2K Online, the free-to-play online-focused mentation of 2K Sports’ hugely palmy hoops franchise aimed astatine the Asian market. NBA 2K Online launched each the mode backmost successful 2012, and past 2K Sports released NBA 2K Online 2 successful 2017. Both games were maintained simultaneously, truthful fans of the archetypal mentation could proceed to play and put their clip and wealth harmless successful the cognition they wouldn’t beryllium near behind.

“I'm going to talk theoretically lone due to the fact that I'm not going to speech astir a peculiar task erstwhile an announcement hasn't been made,” Zelnick began. “But mostly speaking, we enactment our properties erstwhile the consumers are progressive with those titles. As an example, we launched NBA 2K Online successful China, I deliberation primitively successful 2012 if I'm not mistaken. And past we launched NBA 2K Online 2 successful China successful 2017. If I'm not mistaken. We did not sunset Online 1. They some are inactive successful the marketplace and they service consumers and they're live and we person this monolithic audience.

“So we've shown a willingness to enactment bequest titles erstwhile a assemblage wants to beryllium engaged with them.”

That past enactment is of peculiar importance. It suggests — but doesn’t corroborate astatine this signifier — that if determination is simply a GTA Online 2, it won’t travel astatine the outgo of GTA Online falling by the wayside. If radical support playing GTA Online, Zelnick is suggesting here, past Rockstar volition proceed to enactment it.

So, portion a caller GTA Online feels inevitable, possibly fans shouldn’t clasp their enactment for its release. While you wait, we've got plentifulness much connected GTA 6 pursuing today's announcement, including confirmation of the GTA 6 price, implicit 60 caller GTA 6 screenshots, and Sony's boast that GTA 6 "plays best" connected PS5.

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].