If Rockstar and its community were in a relationship, lets just say that the developer would be the “non-expressive” type who doesn’t share their feelings. When we were all excited for the reveal trailer of Grand Theft Auto V, Rockstar failed to express just “who” the upcoming title star will be. Instead of gangs, drugs, and fast cars, we were given crop dusters, wind farms, and a normal, everyday city with normal everyday people. On second thought, Rockstar may be smarter than we can imagine, and they’re confusing us just to reveal a massive, one-of-a-kind game that will hopefully be a land-mark in the open-world genre. Either way, everyone is excited for GTA V, and though the company says we will see the game in 2012, all signs point to 2013.
By now, you’re probably wanting to smack me in the face for my prediction, but sit back for a second and analyze who Rockstar is. Yes, they are massive. Yes, they are a predominant force in the gaming world, and yes, everyone will buy GTA V, but this doesn’t mean that they like to share, especially with their most coveted franchise. Look back for a second at Grand Theft Auto IV and Red Dead Redemption. Both titles had the ability to be massive fall releases, and sell the amount of copies they did when they released, but Rockstar took a different route.