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GTA V PODCAST 1

Published: April 25,2020
Authors: Christian Martínez, Marc Gálvez, Lluís Moreu
Duration: 22 min

Description: Today we talk about how Grand Theft Auto V has become a game that is top selling seven years after its release. We talk about the main concepts of GTA V and, of course, the high impact that had GTA Online to the multiplayer games until now. Why is GTA V so funny that has a big community that continue playing it seven years before? Download

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WHY GTA V WAS THE BEST-SELLING GAME OF THE 2010 DECADE

Published: April 25,2020
Authors: Marc Doctor

My name is Marc Doctor and I have been researching the sandbox field, analysing releases since the mid 80’s. From The Legend of Zelda (1986), through the 90’s Fallout saga (the most recent being Fallout 3, 2008) to the rise of the Far Cry series in the midlate 2000s.
What do the games cited above have in common? To begin with, they caused a massive impact on the genre and pushed the whole game industry forward in terms of specs, player freedom and interaction with the environment.
If one analyses the most popular sandbox releases throughout the videogame history, there is one key piece of data that stands out: these games are always released within a surprisingly accurate time span of 5 years.
What does this have to do with GTA V? Exactly, if you look carefully GTA V was scheduled for a release in 2013, five years after two giants: Far Cry 2 and Fallout 3. This time lapse can be concluded to be the optimal in the game industry for new technologies to develop and have a quick impact in the videogame landscape.
That is to say, GTA V displayed technology far beyond its predecessors’ capabilities due to the fact that GTA V had time to polish its already outstanding RAGE game engine.
As a final addendum, another videogame-colossus, Far Cry 3, had just been released many months prior to the GTA counterpart, leaving the latter game free way to receive all the attention in the first quarter of the 2013 videogame calendar.