does the game industry world need gta?

Does the game industry still need gta?

How would the game industry differ without Grand Theft Auto?

Grand Theft Auto has a huge fan base across the globe; the sales of the latest GTA show how much the public love this franchise. The sales for GTA on the first day were through the roof. GTA has made around 800 million dollars in one day. IGN have reported that they have made this sum at around the first 24 hours of release. GTA was supposed to make all of the money they invested into the game from pre – orders alone.

The developers and the publishers of GTA is Rockstar and they help the games industry a lot with supplying 100s of jobs. So I think that yes we still need GTA as it is a massive part of the industry as the stats provide it creates a huge amount of money and creates loads of jobs for people at Rockstar North to other locations where Rockstar are based.

The target audience of GTA are generally young adults as that will be where most of the money comes in from. Then again the older generation will buy the game as well as it has a broad market. GTA does have female and male audience even though there have been reports of anti - feminism with in the game.

So I think that having GTA in the games industry is still a good idea, but away from the financial point of view and then the graphical structures come into play and the environment and characters of the game are beautiful with little details such as marks in a path or to characters hair. This creates a standard of level where games are heading and how real a game can look.

With these massive games companies such as Take Two who have loads of money to kill and invest in games such as GTA 5, should there be a price cap on how much games companies can spend on a project as it has negative effects on other companies. The smaller companies can’t match Rockstars huge 200 plus million dollar budget, the answer is no and even though there are problems with this as smaller companies shut down because they can’t match richer companies.

The games industry now has two sides instead of everyone being in the middle companies like Bethesda and Rockstar who have a large budget to work with aim to be the top game on the year and then the low budget companies like a small indie developer or rebellion who aren’t that massive will be in the lower section as they make do with what they get.

I think that companies should be able to invest as much as they like because it’s their money. It’s fair as everyone makes a bit of money back, even the cheaper budget companies.

References         - http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/09/18/gta-5-makes-800-million-in-one-day