the gta numbers would make any ordinary game feel jealous, and in that regard it sold extraordinarily well, far better than the vast majority of significant game releases out there. and most of the people who bought the game didn’t complain much, they just played and enjoyed it.
i’m not saying it excuses DE’s state, but i think the GSG head’s response on the screencap was quite rational. they shipped something that took a serious effort and celebrated it cos that’s what dev teams do esp in dev-oriented circles.
somehow I'm not even shocked sadly. It also sorta lines up with what you said during ESA runs of SA:DE of basically "R* has hella money but sure let's put *three* games on one small studio and let them take the heat for anything bad"
rockstar/take-two should definitely take a lot of the blame but gsg was probably never fully equipped for such a job. when you consider most of their other ports are mediocre, they had no chance doing full blown remasters of 3 big games in one package
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Plus it's now the only option for modern console gamers
They could've also released the trilogy as is on modern consoles with achievements and stuff like the silentpatch or skygfx and it would've sold too
Seems like someone is butthurt