So i watched this video last night about games that release into the market and drastically shatter the games industry in everything they do. Final Fantasy 7 came out and completely changed how stories were told in video games. Dark Souls game out and changed the world of action RPG's forever. The Witcher 3 came out and ruined open world games, Baldur's Gate 3 came out and showed the industry how wrong they were getting it.
The industry as a whole is pretty much a fucked up mess, like a bunch of giant snails trying to chase each other's tails but by the time they get to where their opponents are, the opponent is long gome. Overwatch for example exploded the lootbox and made it infest most if not all Love Service games for years, each one pushing the line until ultimately that line is crossed and Battlefront happens. Though in some circles lootboxes still thrive like in ultimate team games.
Despite this industry shaking games that sometimes come out and cause everyone else to rethink what they're doing. Nothing and no one has ever had an impact like GTA V. And with GTA 6 coming soon, the galactic meteoric destruction of the games industry is going to severely fuck with every single publisher on the planet. Some of these publishers are already in hot water for making the same mistakes over and over again (Ubisoft), and others are not exactly on steady ground. What the fuck does Activision make besides Call of Duty slop these days?
No matter how crazy some of the latest impactful games have been, nothing compares to what GTA will bring. GTA V came out in 2013, think of how different the game landscape was then. Since then GTA V got released on everything and sold more copies than any other video game by such an insane margin not even Pokemon comes close. Already publishers are gambling, frantically either trying to rush out their next game before GTA 6, or hold back and hope they can release long enough after GTA 6 that the dust will have settled.
GTA V still remains as one of the most actively played video games even today. When GTA 6 drops it's going to consume everyone. Every livestream, every gamesite, every gamer, will be completely invested in playing it.
The question will be, what will GTA 6 bring to the game landscape that will cause everyone to try and include into their own games? What mechanics, what revolutionary storytelling method, what change with it bring to the open world formula? That is the crazy thing about Rockstar, they don't miss. They don't release much, but they don't miss, and when Rockstar stands up to drop a new thing on the world, the entire industry stops and listens.
It could course correct the entire AAA ship if it plays things correctly. Or it can cause years of poor imitations that fail and cause more layoffs and shutdowns of studios. My guess is it will probably do both in some way or another. Let the bad studios fail and fade away and those that can adapt to make great games that people expect, let those succeed.
What impact do ya'll think GTA 6 is going to cause across the industry?
