 Hey everyone, today we have some news about Grand Theft Auto coming to Nintendo Switch. Now we're going to call this stuff a rumor although it's sort of a report, it comes from some very reliable sources over at Kotaku, and there's also some additional information from basically their financial briefing at 2K, at Take 2 I guess I should say, that kind of hints towards Grand Theft Auto coming to potentially the Switch, maybe even more than what we have today, potentially like Grand Theft Auto 5, hello, was on the Xbox 360, why not on Switch? I don't know, I guess we'll find out soon, but before we get into the news today, I gotta remind you that we are giving away a Nintendo Switch OLED, that's why we're giving away a white version of the Nintendo Switch OLED right away at launch on October 8th, we're actually gonna announce the winner a little bit before October 8th in a live stream to enter, to win, all you have to do is subscribe, so like click that subscribe button. And I would appreciate it if you would also hit the bell icon, so you get at least hopefully some notifications for our videos. And obviously if you really enjoy the content leave a like and a comment down below to help us out with that YouTube algorithm. Alright, let's get right into this video without any further delay, we got this article over at Kotaku that I'm going to get off for you guys, and then some additional potential information coming directly from Take 2. So here is this article on Kotaku written by Zach Zwiezen today, and it says the following, after months of rumors and speculation, Kotaku has learned from sources that Rockstar games may be remastering the classic Grand Theft Auto games. Currently it appears these games will be released later this fall for a multitude of platforms including the portable Nintendo Switch. For the past year rumors have swirled on Twitter, Reddit, and various message wars that Rockstar is working on remakes or remasters of the classic PlayStation 2 era Grand Theft Auto titles. These rumors only grew in popularity as Rockstar's parent company, Take 2 Interactive, used DMCA takedowns to remove classic GTA mods from the internet while announcing that the publisher had three remastered games in development. While Kotaku can't confirm what all of those T's remaster titles specifically are, we can confirm via corroborated details from three sources, three that GTA remasters are currently in the final stages of development baby, Kotaku has reached out to Rockstar about these remastered games and future GTA re-releases, but our sources have so far had reliable track records that have alerted us updates to Grand Theft Auto Online and Red Dead Online weeks if not months in advance. According to these sources, Rockstar is actively developing remastered versions of Grand Theft Auto 3, Grand Theft Auto Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. All three of these games are being remastered using Unreal Engine and will be a mix of new and old graphics. One source who claims to have seen a snippet of the game in action says that the visuals reminded them of a heavily modded version of a classic GTA title. The UI for the games are being updated too, but will retain the same classic style. No details were shared about gameplay, but Kotaku has been told these remastered titles are trying to stay true to the PlayStation 2 era GTA games as much as possible. Sources confirm that Rockstar Dundee, a Scottish outpost, and one of the newest studios at the company is leading the charge on developing the remastered games. Another source explained that the studio is heavily involved in not just the remasters, but even in helping Rockstar on developing the next-gen Grand Theft Auto 5 ports that are due out later this year. This lines up with information that I had heard last year after the studio was purchased by Rockstar Games. Before becoming Rockstar Dundee, the studio was roughing in games and had previously worked on Crackdown 2, Crackdown 3, and assisted with the development of the Master Chief Collection. Plans around these remastered GTA titles have shifted quite a bit over the last year as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and they might continue to do so until things are officially announced. Originally, it seemed that these re-releases were going to be packaged together and given to players who purchased the upcoming next-gen ports of Grand Theft Auto 5 and GTA Online. It's sort of a bonus or a thank-you gift from Rockstar. Them plans changed, and the remastered trilogy was scheduled to be released earlier this year. However, plans have changed again, and now the remastered titles are planned to launch around late October or early November for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X slash S, Nintendo Switch, PC, Stadia, and mobile phones. It appears the PC and mobile ports might ship to next year as Rockstar focuses on developing the console ports first. While some might have expected Rockstar to space these releases out, if not releasing them on each game for respective 20th-year anniversary, sources told me that this isn't the current plan, and said that it seems that all three games are released in one collected package that may only be sold digitally. For fans who are more interested in other classic Rockstar games getting remastered sources told me that Rockstar has plans to develop new ports for games like Red Dead Redemption, but the future of these remastered games depends on how well the initial releases sell. However, for now Rockstar is focused on getting these three remastered Grand Theft Auto games out the door alongside Grand Theft Auto 5 next-gen ports. Dundee is leading development, and many other studios across Rockstar's vast network of teams are also pitching in on both projects. According to one source, everyone shifting to support these titles is one major reason why Red Dead Online has seen fewer and smaller updates. But if all of this plans out, it might be a very exciting year for fans of classic GTA games. And again, that's all really, really exciting stuff. Also in their most recent financial report, this slide appeared, and what's interesting about this slide is really the last section where they talk about remastered games, and they talk about a few games that are in the works, and then there's three titles that aren't mentioned. Obviously it should be these Grand Theft Auto titles that we're talking about, but there's always that potential that if these remastered games do well on Switch, that Grand Theft Auto 5 could actually come over. Because while GTA 6 is likely an active development somewhere inside Rockstar, it's probably still two, three, or four years off. Grand Theft Auto 5 is making so much bank with their online mode, plus it's one of the best-selling video games of all time, and continues to be a chart-topper every single month that yeah, they're not really in any rush, and Rockstar likes to take their sweet time. So yeah, with these remasters coming out, if they do all right on Switch, I think Grand Theft Auto 5 would really be right around the corner, maybe even as soon as next year. It really shouldn't take that much to port the game to Nintendo Switch, because it's already on hardware worse than Switch. For people who don't remember, Grand Theft Auto 5 originally released on the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, then was ported to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and now is being remastered for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X slash S. So it's interesting because that's three generations of hardware that Grand Theft Auto 5 would be on, and it's still not on Switch, which is better than the original generation of hardware that it released on. So there's not really a reason for it to not be on Switch, other than just deciding we don't want to put it on Switch. I know some people have argued, well, the online mode, they have actually had online updates released for the Xbox 360 version, as like literally last year. So they're still making money, but there's money to be made. They want to be there. And Switch is the leading current platform. You can argue which generation it belongs in, and we've had that argument before. Oh, does it belong in the same genus PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series, or is it really with Xbox One at play? It doesn't really matter. What matters is of currently active front-running platforms. It's Switch, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series along with obviously PC. Well, yeah, Switch is currently the market leader at this exact moment. Will they stay the market leader forever? No, of course. But right now they are the market leader, and Grand Theft Auto is not there. Rockstar is not a stupid company. They know where the money is at, is where they want to be. And right now there is money to be made on Switch, and we've seen other games like, how many times is Minecraft? He popped it up in the top 10 charts on Switch. Like it's to this point that it's almost idiotic that Grand Theft Auto 5 is not on Switch. So assuming that these, you know, these port remaster, remake things for the classic Grand Theft Auto games do decent on Switch, I think that's only going to drive motivation further to finally bring Grand Theft Auto 5 over to Switch. Obviously right now they're focused on that next gen stuff. It literally could take six months just to port Grand Theft Auto 5 over to Switch, especially that Xbox 360 version. So we'll have to wait and see what happens. But for right now, Kotaku is sticking their flag in the mud and saying, hey, later this year we're getting these games, not just on the expected platforms, but on Switch. And I think that's just the first step to getting Grand Theft Auto 5. And then who really knows with GTA 6? I realize that's going to be made for the next gen platforms, or I guess their current gen platforms. However, you never know, because what hardware, you know, in three or four years when GTA 6 finally comes out, what hardware is Nintendo going to have? Oh, I'm sure they'll have a next gen platform out at that point, right? You know, or a more powerful Switch at least four years from now. So who really knows? And if Grand Theft Auto remastered remakes and GTA 5, you know, assuming they bring that to Switch, ends up performing really, really well, I think that bodes well for their chances of getting GTA 6 day one. And that would be a big get for Nintendo from a third-party company. You got to remember, clearly the parent company is fairly happy with Switch, because we keep getting NBA 2K every single year. Like, it's been there since day one. We've gotten the full fat version, not some dumbed-down last gen running on a completely different engine. No, we get the current version of the game just with lower resolution assets and obviously running at 30 FPS. And we've been getting that every single year. And NBA 2K has been one of the best day-in-date releases every year on Switch from third-party. So they clearly are seeing some success with that. And if they see success with this, I think they're just going to solidify, you know, Take 2, Rockstar, you know, just that whole company supporting Switch moving forward. Which would be great for Nintendo fans, too, because obviously we're at a point now where we won't really expect the next Elder Scrolls or next Wolfenstein or Doom. You know, Microsoft owns Bethesda. We don't really expect a lot of these games to now come to Switch, like we've gotten in the past, where we got Doom, Doom Eternal, Wolfenstein, except like we don't expect to get games from that company moving forward ever since that buyout. So being able to turn around and be like, yeah, we don't have those games anymore, but we have these ones would be great. Just like it would be really great if CD Projekt Red saw enough success with Witcher 3 to decide they want to start bringing some of their games in the future to Switch. They haven't yet as of yet. So I'm very curious if sales for that didn't go as expected. Obviously Cyberpunk would be a pretty big game to bring to Switch, but also a pretty difficult one to run on Switch. It already has difficulties running on things like PlayStation 4. But that doesn't mean it couldn't be done proper. Optimization, you know, anything's possible. So or maybe they'll wait for more powerful hardware from Nintendo. I have no idea. But I'm just glad to see that it appears like a studio like Rockstar is actually giving Switch some time. And that to me is already good news. So thank you guys so much for tuning in. 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