GTA 6 PC poll: 39% will wait, 28% don't care at all

PC Gamer ran a reader poll last week asking whether players would buy GTA 6 on console at launch or hold out for a PC version — and the results were more interesting than expected. With Rockstar having confirmed no PC release date and the console launch roughly five months away, the split reveals a fractured audience.

The biggest share, 39%, said they'll simply wait for a PC version regardless of how long it takes. Another 16% plan to buy it on console, and 8% would do the same if they actually owned one. Eight percent are sitting on the fence and want to see how launch goes before committing. The genuine surprise was the second-largest group: 28% said they have no interest in GTA 6 at all and won't be buying it on any platform.

Rockstar opened pre-orders last week with two editions priced at $80 and $100. GTA 6 is targeting a console release later this year on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, but the studio has given no window for PC. That's a familiar pattern — GTA 5 launched on PS3 and Xbox 360 in 2013 and didn't reach PC until 2015, nearly two years later. The wait-for-PC camp has a reasonable case: a later release typically means better optimization, mod support, and a game that's had months of post-launch patches applied.

The 28% with zero interest is the number worth watching. Whether that reflects hype fatigue, the steep pricing, the console-first snub, or just a chunk of the PC audience that never connected with the GTA series isn't clear from the poll alone — but it's a bigger slice of indifference than most would have predicted for one of the most anticipated games in years.