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this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2026
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He's saying that he believes the core customer base - i.e. the people who will gladly throw money at Rockstar even if they send a literal box of horseshit to the players instead of the game they ordered - is on console.
And he would be right based on past releases - GTA V has ~60% sales on PlayStation, ~38% on Xbox and ~2% on PC.
Except... GTA V was also a PlayStation/Xbox exclusive on release, taking nearly two years for the PC release. ANYONE who wanted to play the game HAD to buy a console even if they had a perfectly working PC to use... And hardcore fans bought the console - most likely a PS4 - just to play GTA V.
From there, survivorship bias kicks in and you get execs thinking all the next gen players are on console, so they further push for it. And GTA fans will go and buy console because they want to play the game on day 1.