Video Games Plus, a gaming retailer based out of Canada, and an independent gaming retailer known as Loot Box Gaming have both stated that they won’t be selling GTA 6.
Not huge retailers in the grand scheme of things, but interesting to see at least some taking a stand especially when they are almost certainly losing out on money by doing so.
[for consoles] if it doesn’t have a disc, i won’t pay more than $5 for it.
unless it’s stardew. then i’ll buy it for every system.
I have only bought stardew valley once, because I only game on PC, but I definitely would buy it for multiple systems if I used them; it’s already such good value that I feel like I’m stealing. I do love a passion project.
I wonder if ConcernedApe has a proper desk yet
He does!
Video Game Plus pointed to its policy of not selling games that only offer digital codes, and as a result, it will not sell the biggest game of 2026. The retailer noted that this isn’t a reflection of Rockstar Games or the game itself, but argued that it’s part of their goal of preserving physical media.
Based
“The biggest game of 2026”
Is it a terabyte or something?
300GB apparently. So not far off. Especially with SSD prices these days.
WTF…so much for optimization.
Not surprised they’re large, mostly because the asset sizes are dictated by what screen resolution people play (yeah, 1440p fomo) and how big their monitors are (27" or bust), and how often they stream or make screenshots.
Blame the people wanting to be able to see every flies asshole. Textures get huge fast.
That’s such a weird example
It is. But I don’t think it’s any more weird than photo realistic horse balls that seem to have been all the rage a short while ago.
We don’t frequent the same internet circles apparently
Man, they should offer disc anyway so gen-z can experience the “please insert disc 2 and press continue” while installing.
There are already games with dedicated install discs like that.
It’ll be the Windows 95 14-disk floppy set all over again, but this time with 18 DVDs
I see you were also traumatized by the floppy release. Lol
I had pre-ordered the CD release from Babbage’s, and went to pick that up. Being that I was only 15, I had to get a ride, and it was also 45 min each way, so this wasn’t exactly easy for me.
When I got home, I still hadn’t realized they gave me the wrong one and cracked it open to see the horror. Said screw it, I wasn’t going to be able to go back anytime soon and installed it for the next hour or more.
Luckily, because this was pre-activation key (we remember those days, right? … right??), when I took it back, they apologized and gave me the right one without much problem.
Only installed once from 14 floppies, but it still was terrible.
Fifteen times the size of the smallest PS3.
Isn’t a series S as low as 256gb?
That tells me the game needs to be under that
I have a Series S and the usable storage is around the 360GB mark.
I’m not going to buy GTA6 but imagine having to dedicate your whole console to 1 game :(
Lol, soon we will be buying games on game consoles instead of disks.
We’ll be back to physical memory cards.
Fuck… I’d have to delete at least 5 other games to make room…
5? In a closet behind me I have a physical disk containing 4 full games, including their scanned manuals, on one CD. That’s right, a CD, not a DVD.
No, but the packaging is a refrigerator box.
the keycode is laser-etched onto one of the nails holding it together.
Fragile…it’s italian!
That looks like a major award!
It is a reflection though. A box with a piece of paper in it is a direct reflection of fucking idiocy.
Can I order the disc and return it from my least favorite online marketplace after I use the code?
This game is way too overhyped and I’ve played GTA 3, San Andreas, 4 and 5.
San Andreas was the best one for me, 4 was boring because of all the constant let’s go play darts, let’s go to the strip club especially with Roman fuck you Roman, 5 i completed because i was hoping that by the end i’d like it because it was worth it, it wasn’t and 3 was ok but that was during the PS2 era so if i played it today might have different opinion.
Haven’t seen much about it or i just missed it other than it’s a brother sister game and if it’s like 4 and 5 i won’t even bother watching a YT story video but if it’s kinda like San Andreas then it might have a chance with me.
5 was really mid because of the story. 2/3 of the characters you play as have already reached the end of their character arcs, and they spend most of the time bitching about how they’d rather not be doing any of the missions you’re forced to do. Really brings home how much of the missions are unnecessary bullshit they’re roped into by weird plot contrivances. Even the ones where they’re doing a big heist for huge profits … why? Again, 2/3 of them already have plenty of money and other shit going on. They don’t need it. Splitting it into 3 characters is also a mistake, IMO – it dilutes your experience with each one, so you never really bond with or identify with any of them as much as you might if there was only 1 playable character.
And then there’s the money and progression. In SA, you start out with next to nothing. There’s lots of stuff you can’t afford, which makes every dollar you manage to gain meaningful. Collecting stuff and completing missions can mean the difference between being able to afford a cool gun or not, between being able to afford a new safehouse or not. You eventually progress to being able to afford all of it … through your own work and effort. And then the whole gang wars part gives you even more progression as you slowly take over all the gang territory in the city. But in 5, again 2/3 of the characters start with enough money to afford anything in the game. And the 3rd character quickly gains just as much after only a few missions. There was never a single point in all of playing through 5 where I found anything they couldn’t already afford. That really robs the game of a sense of progression. You never really unlock anything new that you couldn’t have before (aside from a few safehouse locations that are mission-related). You have no reason to care whether you’re collecting money and mission rewards or not – it’s all meaningless money that you’ll never spend anyway. And that again contributes to a sense of meaninglessness when it comes to the story missions. Completing a mission makes no difference to you or your character – just another arbitrary challenge to be overcome, and the only reward is getting a little closer to being able to say you finished the game.
What made SA great is the story and the sense of progression. If GTA 6 doesn’t bring that back, I think I’m ready to give up on the franchise.
I agree. The game themes are about making money through doing crimes. If the gameplay doesn’t match that then they fucked up. It’s one of the most trivial things to do with the design of the game, but they think telling players no ever is bad, so they hand everything to you. What’s the point of the game then? I’m assuming the only reason this isn’t the same for multiplayer is because then they couldn’t sell you the solution.
5 felt like they half wrote 3 different games, realized they were running out of time, and then smushed them all together. Finishing the campaign becomes a chore long before the ending. Speaking of the ending if you do manage to chug through your reward is an abrupt and extremely weak ending that again feels like they just ran out of time
It’s crazy because then they plopped out red dead 2 which was a tremendously excellent narrative by comparison. They clearly have the means to make something fantastic.
Same, Vice City and San Andreas are the only GTA games I enjoyed, got GTA 5 for free on Epic played it for a bit and got bored and dropped it, I do not like the photo real look, GTA works best with the slightly cartoons, janky graphics of San Andreas, the photo real shit has no soul
I kinda liked the memes from 4. When online worked, I did the swing set glitch for hours at a time. 5 had the heist missions and those were fun.
But everything was hampered by their dog shit shooting mechanics. In a game where you shoot this much, it shouldn’t feel so bad.
That swing set glitch was the best thing about 4.
Parachute glitch was the best time. The dudes I played with back then came up with tons of game modes based around it.
I liked 4, especially if you also played the DLCs you saw how the different characters intertwined, especially the diamond story, you for the whole picture how the diamonds changed hands, Pulp Fiction style.
Respect
I’m not buying GTA 6 anyway
Same. I kinda liked gta 5. But i was more intrigued to play online with my friends. Remember the online trailers? People doing cool stuff and mess around in the sandbox? Yeah no, i forgot about people who would play gtao are people who play gta.
GTA online was awful. You can never do anything because you would always get blown up because they kept putting in stupid overpowered vehicles.
Plus anything cool required real money, or an insane amount of grinding.
Yall are boring, them raising the price is greedy but 10$ is not a big deal, most games yall buy digitally without a second thought since they are only available for sale online, this gta 6 hate just seems perfomative, I’m buying it day 1 and will likely get more than 1$ an hour of enjoyment out of it.
A lot of people don’t care about GTA VI so much that they couldn’t resist opening this post and telling everyone about it 😂
They genuinely just hate the game, I get not liking it because it means other AAA games not worth 80$ will copy and it may become the new baseline price or being mad they took out clothes, shops, etc. to sell as day 1 dlc with the ultimate edition, but they are all acting like they aren’t remotely interested in the GTA brand and always hated the games lol…
I’m still buying it, maybe a week after launch, but yeah I’m definitely not a fan of cosmetics being locked behind another paywall. Elden ring and bg3 are my favorite games because you earn all the cosmetics and there are a ton of optione.
Yeah I was expecting a much worse price. Unfortunately I’m not ready to update my console yet, so I won’t buy on release like I did with V. But you can bet I’ll get it as soon as I upgrade.
To the people complaining about the stories in GTA games:
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Rockstar made Red Dead 2. Great characters. Great story. Great writing. You haven’t played VI yet, the story could be awesome.
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Some people just like to have fun. I play loads of story-focused games, narrative based, lore-rich, all types. But it’s still fun to drive around and shoot shit while listening to silly fake radio stations sometimes. Not everything has to be a thought-provoking artistic experience. Give me sticky bombs and a rock/punk station and I’ll be happy for hours.
Yes it’s overhyped. But it will be fucking awesome nonetheless
Not a chance I buy it at relase, I’ve been burned too much preodering, but I likely will buy it week 1 if it’s anything like gta 5 and rdr2. Hoping there are so many shops/cosmetics that the ultimate edition issue is overblown.
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This game is going to be a terd
GTA 6’s launch will be a terrible day for the video games industry.
A lot of releases postponed due to some boring ass game about gangs and crime. For some reason, everyone wants to just drive around and shoot people, instead of experiencing interesting stories? Whatever.
Not to mention all of their shitty decisions, lies, union busting, and more, which will have essentially been forgotten with GTA 6’s launch. No matter how much they lost or will lose in lawsuits, they’ll just make it back tenfold from GTA 6, and continue with their scummy practices.
The GTA stories are better than like 90% of what constitutes a narrative in games these days. They’re not better than something like Cyberpunk, but it’s better than a visual novel like Citizen Sleeper.
I guess it depends on what you’re into, but for me stories in GTA are mediocre at best. Just average action movies dragged out into 40+ hour walking, driving, and shooting simulators.
Oh, I’m not judging the actual genre, I’m saying the quality itself. Character depth, subversion of expectation, yet still being predictable to an enjoyable point. The right amount of ups and downs in hopes and fears for protagonists etc. All genre and dressing aside, it’s still good stuff. Again, not masterpieces, but still they at least demonstrate consistently that they care about narrative structure and pacing.
For some reason, everyone wants to just drive around and shoot people, instead of experiencing interesting stories?
What a weird take. Every single GTA game has had a story and it’s pretty obvious that this one’s going to have a story too. You can complain about all sorts of things to do with rockstar but that’s just a weird thing to say.
GTA and red dead redemption are usually highly regarded, they usually also came out as single player campaign first, like GTA 6 I believe will as well, then later add on the online part which GTA V is now famous for.
I never really got into the online aspect of GTA but did play through the main story and even my wife would come over to just watch like if it was a movie, so Id say it was pretty good. Ive been wanting her to play red dead as I think that was better but just no time for much games anymore
Have you ever, like, played a game other than GTA?
Did you know they all usually feature stories? I mean, I do understand it’s kinda crazy, but it’s true!
And the stories in other games are infinitely better, too. They’re more than just poorly written characters saying ‘fuck’ or the n-word twice in every sentence.
Honestly, I highly recommend playing video games. Try it some time.
This is an unnecessarily gatekeepy take. I love an extremely wide variety of video games, from Morrowind to Monkey Island, and I think GTA games have had generally compelling stories. Crime drama is a fiction staple and scarcely anyone does it better than Rockstar.
I don’t know where the gatekeeping comes from. Maybe I’m misunderstanding something, but I literally encouraged the other person to play more varieties of games, which as far as I know is the opposite of gatekeeping.
Though I can agree the ‘take’ wasn’t particularly good. I found the other comment stupid, so I wrote a stupid, maybe mocking reply. That’s all there is to it.
Yes. I’m much more interested in the new The Witcher 3 DLC than in this, for example.
Isn’t this game gonna be huge wrt size? Like how would this fit on a single disk. You would prolly need 10 disks or sth like that
Cursory search indicates that Xbox Series X can read BD-50, PS5 can read BD-100, so that’s 6-7 and 3-4 discs, respectively
Also worth mentioning that’s with the game uncompressed. There’s likely going to be many large sections of the game that will compress to a fraction of their original size.
Tbf my copy of GTA V for PC came on 7 discs back in 2014, so I guess it’s not unheard of for them. My gaming PC didn’t have a disc drive so that was a fun start. Multi-disc games are worse on consoles though for sure
I bought World of Warcraft back in 2005 and it came in 5 Disks.
Like in good old Xbox 360 days, L.A. Noire came on three DVDs.
No physical, no purchase. Period. I guess I’ll need to wait.
I fear they’re the trendsetter and physical copies will become a thing of the past in the next couple of years.
Should they sell you an SSD? 20 Blu-rays?
Games would ship with multiple discs if required in the past. The issue with no disc at all is that the license cannot be transferred.
HL2’s original release came on 5 CDs, so yeah, games used to be multiple disk. its no big deal. Course, thats in the before times, from the long long ago… When gamers werent so spoiled with broadband internet and instant gratification.
That’s an interesting example.
HL2 controversially required you to sign in to a new online service upon installation even though you had a physical disc. Everybody was super pissed about it at the time.
But now most PC gamers act like that service is the one good thing on earth.
Oh no, no no no. HL2 was far worse than that.
HL2 made you install the full game, off of 5 CDs, and it installed steam as well.
Then after the installation was complete, you had to register a steam account, and log in, so steam could decrypt your installed game, Which if you had a computer that wasnt bleeding edge in 2004, that your computer would be locked up and unusuable for a very long time. Mine was locked up for almost a full day processing the decryption.
And I still say, to this day, that steam is bullshit. That I shouldnt be forced to run steam for single player games, but back then at least steam was just a server browser/matchmaker. It wasnt the big pseudo-wannabe digital walmart+facebook that it is today… so you at least had an excuse to run it to play multiplayer games like HL2 deathmatch and CS:Source.
But requiring it for any single player game is the height of bullshit.
I wager most the people you find eagerly sucking off Valves cock as if its gods gift to gaming, are people 21 or under, who did not know a world before digital downloads, and who didnt know valve at their worst, before lawsuits and countries forced them to be marginally better.
Finally, a kindred soul. Valve is the worst thing to happen to PC gaming in decades.
It annoys me how people whine about exclusives on epic when valve were the ones who forced steam down our throats in the first place with HL2.
True, but, and I dont want to be in this position, but its a little bit different having their game on their service, and epic going out and paying other companies to drop their games off steam before release so they can have timed artificially exclusivity on epic.
Those are two entirely different piles of bullshit.
The disc is still an issue for me even with the licensing issue. I like to resell and gift my console games and you can’t do that without a disc.
It’s one of the things that makes me sad about PC gaming. Steam killed physical PC games and it sucks.
If it is on 20 blu rays they better start shipping it on SSDs instead.
But let’s be honest, it’s not going to be 2TB for the compressed installation. Probably around 100 to 200gb that will be needed, meaning it would need 2 discs at most.
Now, I am pretty old, so I have played a fair few games that came on multiple Disks, CDs and DVDs. Some of my favourite games are on 4 discs.
Somebody said that the game is 300GB, BluRay XL4 can hold 128GB, so that would be 3 discs. Of course if the game console can read XL4.
Yea, but someone saying that and it being true are very different beasts. Rockstar have not said anything about install size. And that also ignores that compression is applied as well, which would make it smaller.
Also… Oh no… 3 whole discs? What ever would they do!
I was actually thinking that 3 disks isn’t that much in used to 12 floppies during Amiga games
20 blurays?
If the game is 500gbs in size, and costs 100 fucking dollars, then goddamn yes it better include a fucking dedicated SSD.
In the current economy people would buy the $100 game preinstalled on the SSD, then format the drive to use it with something else
i doubt very seriously hordes of people are gonna pay 100 dollars for a 128gb ssd thats read only, to try to make it usable, when they can go on amazon and get one for 20 bucks
I don’t care if it’s just one disk and you have to download most of the game, the important thing is being able to give the disk to someone else, allowing them to play the game.
I’m not going to play any games that need several terabytes to install. I’ve got more than enough older games I’ve never played to last me the rest of my life and then some.
Blu-rays can store up to 128gb so you need only 3 disxs for a 300gb game…
And if 3 discs are too much for ya, they can put in there even a modern storage device
y…yes. I would like a free SSD with my game please. That sounds like the best promotional deal.
I don’t even want GTA6 but i’d buy the fuck out of that.
Most sales are already digital I don’t like what they are doing but this will not affect them at all.
Lol, haven’t bought physical in years. Means nothing to me. Digital for life
Digital until they take it away from you having already got your money.
I remember buying GTA V on disc and then having to wait an entire day for the day 1 patch to download on my slow ass rural bumfuck ADSL connection. Disc or no, if it has online activation it ain’t yours.
I’ve said it before, but I really don’t get the GTA VI hype. The last Grand Theft Auto game being released over a decade ago isn’t any guarantee that the next one will be amazing - Duke Nukem, Metroid, Overwatch and Star Fox are examples of that. Also, anyone who’s been paying attention to the direction Rockstar games has been going for the last 5+ years would be pretty worried about how this game will actually turn out. A lot of stuff that used to be earned with in-game currencies in GTA online are only buyable with real money now. Their employee track record is horrible… Hearing about Rockstar not producing discs for their game doesn’t surprise me. Maybe GTA VI will “crash the industry” and all the things these YouTubers are saying, but it would be on status alone at the moment, not because we know this is going to be a great game.
These comments that try to make Rockstar look or sound bad never work, lol. Comparing amazing single-player games like GTA V or RDR2 to Overwatch 2 or Star Fox? What? That is like pointing to different movie directors to try and argue why a talented popular one is going to fail. It’s so goofy, lol. They are completely different teams of game developers with a track record of delivering.
The stuff you’re missing out with GTA+ is incredibly meaningless. They are more cars and garages, who cares? You don’t need them to enjoy 99.9% of the content Online, which are missions and heists you can do with your friends right now. You don’t need the cosmetics. Same with Overwatch 2; that sequel was awesome, because the game became free for everyone to play, and right now they’re being very generous with the amount of skins they give to Free Players; you can pretty much get 2-3 legendary skins every 2 months if you play for a few hours a week, no need to grind too hard. Those who hate Blizzard for the scandals, who are still blaming the entire team for the action of a few, they are not morally superior anymore either. Those things don’t define everyone that works there, not all the artists and developers there deserved the harassment and death threats they received.
All gaming companies’ employee track records are horrible. Crunch is everywhere. There’s Bungie, Ubisoft, Microsoft, CD Project did it too…
The fact you can’t see the massive milestone something like GTA VI is for Humanity or art, is just so disrespectful. GTA 6 will be the closest thing we have to a real-life sim, not just because of the graphics, but the overall system of making a massive city feel alive and that good in a screen, with 2026’s hardware limitations which are still significant for this genre of game. So many tried, like Watch Dogs or Cyberpunk, but they failed. As a software engineer, Rockstar Games are still some of the best technical achievements the Gaming Industry has, regardless of how greedy they are, the content you get for 60-80$ is already insanely good.
Bros over here with his pepperoni nipple and opinion like we give af
You gave enough of a fuck to reply to it. Go take you reddit ass behavior and NPC one-liners back to that Jeffrey Epstein Class supporting website you belong to
Bro talking like he doesn’t realize I’m Epstein’s boss
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Wait, do ppl really believe I’m
That would be funny
I don’t know who that is though
They are playing me
It’s not good enough to be true
I am just a dummy!!!
I could never do what you due
You sound like a piece of shit
I was just told that nobody should give a fuck about my opinion just because I went into detail about why the hype for Rockstar Games is fair. Dude didn’t even add anything of value to the convo, just insults, like you are. And now the guy is singing about being “Jeffrey Epstein’s boss” below you. Cool friend you got there. I am so jealous
Yeah, I get, I’ll wait to buy gta6 on discount instead
If your only metric is “long dev cycles bad”, then yeah this looks bad because you’re comparing games stuck in development hell to a game that has demonstrably had like 8 years of real dev time. Additionally, it’s not like Rockstar have put out stinkers in the past. every GTA game I’ve ever played has been a fun single player experience. I can’t imagine R* nuking the billions they’ve spent developing their game and the goodwill they’ve gathered in the past. Are there going to be scammy bullshit things in the game? Sure. It’s literally impossible for them to raise money from investors if they don’t put it in there. But if it’s another game “only” just as good as GTA v, it will sell incredibly well and be worth the up front money.
