Grand Theft Auto V Official System Requirements & Release Date Revealed by Rockstar !

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Grand Theft Auto V Official System Requirements & Release Date Revealed by Rockstar !

By GamersRex → Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Hey guys a big bad news, as we expected from Rockstar Games. But with it, also comes a good news.

Rockstar Games finally revealed the system requirements of highly anticipated title Grand Theft Auto V on PC but also delayed it to March 2015.

Rockstar Games left this message for the PC community :-

"Our apologies for the slight shift in the date but the game requires a few extra weeks of testing and polish to make it as good as can be. Moving a release date is never a decision we take lightly and is a choice we make only when we know it is in the best interests of the game and our fans. Thanks everyone for your understanding and we assure you these few extra weeks will be worth it when the game does arrive in March.

GTA Online for PC, which will support up to 30 players, will launch alongside GTAV for PC and will include GTA Online Heists.  Online Heists for consoles will be launching in the coming weeks ahead of the PC launch."

6 new official PC screens were also revealed as you can see them below :-

They have pushed Los Santos and Blaine County to even greater levels of detail, running at 1080p while keeping the smooth 60fps with up to 4K resolution and support for up to triple monitor configurations, as well as NVidia 3D Vision for up to triple monitor setups.

PC Version also includes the new Rockstar Editor, which gives players a full suite of editing tools to create and publish gameplay clips direct to both Social Club and YouTube. 

Now, we come to the main point, the requirements which are quite a relief :-

Minimum specifications:

- OS: Windows 8.1 64 Bit, Windows 8 64 Bit, Windows 7 64 Bit Service Pack 1, Windows Vista 64 Bit Service Pack 2* (*NVIDIA video card recommended if running Vista OS)

- Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 CPUs) / AMD Phenom 9850 Quad-Core Processor (4 CPUs) @ 2.5GHz

- Memory: 4GB

- Video Card: NVIDIA 9800 GT 1GB / AMD HD 4870 1GB (DX 10, 10.1, 11)

- Sound Card: 100% DirectX 10 compatible

- HDD Space: 65GB

- DVD Drive

Recommended specifications:

- OS: Windows 8.1 64 Bit, Windows 8 64 Bit, Windows 7 64 Bit Service Pack 1

- Processor: Intel Core i5 3470 @ 3.2GHZ (4 CPUs) / AMD X8 FX-8350 @ 4GHZ (8 CPUs)

- Memory: 8GB

- Video Card: NVIDIA GTX 660 2GB / AMD HD7870 2GB

- Sound Card: 100% DirectX 10 compatible

- HDD Space: 65GB

- DVD Drive

Rockstar Games disappointed us again but worked well with the game performance. The specs are a relief doesn't makes you to upgrade your PC to play it, but you need a lot of disk space.

So what we can do now is JUST WAIT !

Source: Rockstar Newswire

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Target Australia misleading people, stops selling Grand Theft Auto V

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Target Australia misleading people, stops selling Grand Theft Auto V

By GamersRex → Friday, December 5, 2014

Before all this incidence happened, Target Australia said :-

“We’ve got to listen to our customers and there are as many defending the right to buy the game as there are who want it removed,” Target Australia’s general manager for corporate affairs Jim Cooper told news.com.au.

“But simply asking Target to not sell the game won’t make any difference to its availability.”

Cooper clarified that, like all other retailers who are obligated to adhere to the classification legislation concerning restricted content, Target limited the sale of the game to adults.

“We think it’s a valid debate… but it might be a debate that needs to be had at a regulator level,” said Cooper.

“We respect the sincerity of people who do not want it sold and their opinion is valid, but we are a retailer for everyone, as long as we are selling the game responsibly.”

Which means Target Australia were not in the position of stopping the sales of critically acclaimed Grand Theft Auto V. Yet, they made the decision to stop selling it !

“We’ve been speaking to many customers over recent days about the game, and there is a significant level of concern about the game’s content,” said Cooper in a prepared statement.

“We’ve also had customer feedback in support of us selling the game, and we respect their perspective on the issue.

“However, we feel the decision to stop selling GTA V is in line with the majority view of our customers.”

Cooper further said that Target Australia would continue to sell other R-rated DVDs and games.

Strauss Zelnick (CEO at Take-Two Interactive), says :-

“We are disappointed that an Australian retailer has chosen no longer to sell Grand Theft Auto V – a title that has won extraordinary critical acclaim and has been enjoyed by tens of millions of consumers around the world,” said Zelnick. “Grand Theft Auto V explores mature themes and content similar to those found in many other popular and groundbreaking entertainment properties. Interactive entertainment is today's most compelling art form and shares the same creative freedom as books, television, and movies.”

“I stand behind our products, the people who create them, and the consumers who play them.”

Target Australia must have been shocked at the speed of which their decision met with negative responses. They received over 1000 comments on their Facebook post just after 1 hour of publishing their decision to stop selling GTA V.

One thing which must be noted that the women who assembled the petition in the first place are actually former sex workers and survivors of sexual violence.It’s discouraging the women behind this petition are gleaning their impressions of GTA V from YouTube rather than experiencing the game itself but their overall earnestness is not something we're calling into question.

Responses from the game supporters :-

They explain they are “astounded at the level of abuse.” This is beyond counterproductive. It will only galvanise detractors of adult video games like GTA V.  You can’t take a crap on the rug in retaliation to being called an animal without proving the very point you’re so spiteful about.

The petition that started this was initiated by very misinformed people. They claim the game 'encourages' you to commit sexually violent or generally violent acts against women. As someone who has played the game in question extensively (Almost 200 hours), I can confirm that this is a false claim. The game NEVER encourages this. They also completely ignore the fact that there's much more violence against men than women, but it's definitely not on a level that should have the video game removed from stores. Plus the game has an R18+ rating for a reason.

A game made for adults is being taken off the shelves by Target following of a bunch of misinformed feminists that made a petition because it apparentply encourages players to cause violence against women. I fear the other retailers will follow this trend, soon this game won't be sold anywhere in Australia. The R18+ rating is there for a reason! This game may allow you you to kill, hurt, bash and shoot anyone not just females and this game should be on the shelves all over the country. It's made for adults not children, we have the right to buy games despite their content.

So all in all, we can say Target Australia is completely misleading people, acting like noobs is completely disgusting, the violent acts are actually not tied to normal game progression, it needs to be explained with civility. The fact that claiming the game actively encourages violence against women above all else is completely false needs to be elucidated maturely. 

This petition is based on a big misunderstanding of the nature of GTA V, Target Australia must have misled a great number of presumably well-meaning people.

The petition says GTA V makes a game of bashing, killing and horrific violence against women, which is partially correct… but there's also plenty of violence against men (more than women) in the game too.

But if Target removes the game, what has been achieved? There are plenty of other places to buy it.

For parents worried about the effect the game might have on their kids, there's a simple solution - don't buy it.

The game is rated R18+ anyway, so by the time anyone gets their hands on it, they should be old enough to make sensible decisions about how they live their lives.

Of course, kids younger than that will play the game, but it's up to parents to deal with that and be aware of what their children are up to.

Source: IGN