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With Grand Theft Auto VI’s release approaching, a thread titled “GTA6 isn’t generating any buzz at all” popped up on 5ch’s Hardware/Industry board (Geha). Discussion centered on the game’s target frame rate of a variable 30fps, restrictions on online features and mod support, and content regulations for the PS5 version. Posters also cited Newzoo’s estimate of $3.2–5.2 billion in first-week sales and a development budget estimated at 156–320 billion yen. Some pointed out that overseas hype seems much stronger, and opinions split over why the response at home has been so muted.
What people said
There's just nothing being put out there that lets fans discuss or speculate about what's actually different in the new game.
I guess the target 30fps did get people hyped… in a bad way?
Target 30FPS (lol), single-player only.
Who's actually gonna want this lmao
Re: #5
That, plus the censored version cutting side quests, shops, and events, and the chance that online might get walled off onto a quarantine server just for the censored version a year or so later — nothing but downsides.
They should hurry up and show real PS5 hardware gameplay in a livestream.
Can't wait 😜
It's the "Hall of Shame homecoming edition," don't get it wrong.
Keeping online segregated from overseas players is nothing but good news.
No wonder a country like that can't get hyped.
It's always been English-only voice acting, noob.
Say "variable," you dunce! (insult borrowed from Crayon Shin-chan)
Guess nobody even expected it to sell.
It's basically perishable food with a six-month shelf life.
The risk is way too high.
That's short.
There's no way retailers can carry stock like that.
That's 20x Zelda lol
The dev time and the dev budget though……
Guess 50 million units in the first week really is the bar after all.
GTA: "A game that does 50 million at launch and 200 million lifetime is going digital-only" ← someone who hasn't noticed history just shifted, lmao
https://krsw.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/ghard/1784356482/
"Western games and movies are dead!!" ← GTA6 pre-orders hit 50 million, Toy Story's a smash hit… wait, what?
https://krsw.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/ghard/1784448795/
Seriously, how do people come up with such a dumb estimate?
That's 100 times what Ocarina of Time cost — and that game was said to cost 4 billion yen.
Final sales including online will be off by dozens of times anyway, so who cares.
GTA5's online mode alone pulled in $10 billion.
No idea, but they're probably planning to keep selling it for like 10 years, so it should be fine?
It'll be in the black well before they start dumping it in bargain bins the way they did with 5.
Maybe it'll pick up a little once it actually releases?
I think it'll be decent enough until online mode drops.
Japan's definitely getting a censored version, and that's probably why the hype's lacking here.
Well, this series is actually the reason distribution regulations got tightened in the first place.
What do you mean it won't even hit a million on day one?
The series has never been fun enough in Japan to get hugely popular, not even by the 6th entry.
It comes out in a few days, but there's no buzz.
Sure, it'll sell — but we've been watching this game since Trailer 1, years ago now.
Especially looking at the extended footage, it's clear this is just… another GTA.
I guess "just another GTA" means it doesn't feel any different from the last one?
I really think it's important to do what Nintendo does — show actual hardware gameplay and put out videos explaining exactly what's changed and how.
Background and Key Points of the Discussion
With GTA6’s release approaching, the thread cited development cost estimates of 156–320 billion yen — reportedly around 480 billion yen once marketing and operating costs are included — along with Newzoo’s projection of $3.2–5.2 billion in first-week sales. Nobody in the thread questioned the sheer scale of the business itself. What divided posters was whether there’s any real sense of hype: many felt that content regulations in the domestic version, restrictions on online features and mod support, and dissatisfaction with the variable 30fps target frame rate were specifically dragging down expectations in Japan. One post claimed Korean regulators had flagged GTA6 over genital depictions, but that’s secondhand information circulating on 5ch and hasn’t been confirmed by any primary source such as overseas news outlets, so it should be treated with caution.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Hardware/Industry [Geha]) thread “[Sad News] GTA6 Isn’t Generating Any Buzz At All….”
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