GTA 5 Leaked Code shows PC Version is the base version and is finished

yeah, just didn't see it posted here so just sharing. I think everyone knew it was coming.

I don't quite read it as "confirmed for PC" news piece. I'd never doubt PC version was coming, but it's always bit scary to think it's going to suffer consolitis in one form or the other, be it poor optimisation, wonky GUI, bad control scheme etc. Good to hear that PC version is actually "base" if what they say is true.

But there's also the bigger issue at hand, because it probably means they purposefully released on consoles first as double tap/piracy dodge move and that's something that won't necessarily put PC gamers in a happy place.

On the other hand they have good excuse because making stuff for PC is more complicated due to plethora of hardware (and software) configurations.

They have clearly declined towards making a Ps4 version of GTA 5 so there you go.

There are various reasons to release first for consoles, even if PC was base.

On one hand you have complications stemming from big variety on the PC market. You can start with PCs in mind, not to shoot yourself in the foot later with porting to that platform, but then it's still easier to diverge first into one known configuration and optimize/test for it, to have something faster out of the gates.

On the other hand, publishers may be considering it a good business strategy yielding more money. Anxious console owners gonna buy it ASAP so you have their money without releasing the floodgates of pirating early, and then perhaps they gonna buy second copy anyway just to have it on PC as well. More monies then if you release on consoles first.

Well those two hands actually go hand to hand hehe xD

EDIT: oh also like someone mentioned after my post, another reason can be timed exclusivity deals pushed not so much by game publishers but the console manufacturer.

Go tell that to all the Jesus lovers, besides it wasn't on SG

A lot of things you've said are not entirely correct.While I didn't develop for any big console, I did tough for the psp some time back(wrote a part of the engine), and I can make some points:

• The developing environment is indeed the pc, you have an emulator and you are provided with dev kits as well.
• The compiler is on the pc,not on the consoles and when you build for testing you have a highly non optimized build, since when building for production the optimization is on a separate phase of the compilation(compressing executables,assets and other stuff) even tough resource and performance tweaking is done on a daily basis.
• The console architecture and the pc are completely different, cpu instructions, graphic apis, memory management and a ton of other stuff prevents you from building for the pc, the only thing that "could" be shared are assets(sound,textures,models).
  I hope I've helped a little to clarify some points.

enough with the "old" posts please, even though it was only 2 months ago....

the human race is old, is it obsolete? language is old, is it obsolete? the universe is old.... etc etc etc