The GTA Trilogy was supposed to unlock at 10AM ET worldwide, making it a simultaneous launch around the globe. As you can probably tell from our homepage, that didn’t go well: the game released in countries like New Zealand at midnight, meaning fans have been digging in for nearing 24 hours now.
Rather than just unlock these 20-year-old titles early for everyone, however, Rockstar has instead taken measures and removed the entire package for pre-order from the PS Store. If you were hoping to purchase the package and preload this morning, then you won’t be able to: there’s now just a clock counting down to the aforementioned time.
Fortunately, you won’t have to wait too long for Rockstar’s arbitrary launch window. In the meantime, you can check out a ton of gameplay footage through here, and also learn why not everyone’s overly enthusiastic about the quality of the ports. Will you be grabbing the GTA Trilogy today? Hit up Cluckin’ Bell in the comments section below.
[source store.playstation.com]
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I’m hoping you can just buy individual games too, don’t want all of them
@NateGoesLive You can't right now but I'm sure this will become an option eventually.
One might guess they are enforcing a stricter release window because they know the game is gonna get panned critically.
Wondering, why is this an issue at all...certainly wouldn't call it a debacle...Cyberpunk 2077 was a debacle...not this. Oh I'm so shocked someone got the chance to burn their 60$ sooner than the others.
Oh Rockstar, how low you've fallen. But back to milking that GTA V cow, right? I do hope people don't throw away their money at this cheap and lazy cash grab.
What a joke, smh
They can add 49 songs back in whilst its off then
Unlocked midnight for UK as well as been playing it all morning.
@UnlimitedSevens Its a fine remaster, not a great one sure but visually its the best they have ever looked and played on consoles. I've been loving going back to SA again with better visuals and controls.
@UnlimitedSevens Yes,its a fine remaster. If I was forced to compare it with other remasters,id say its as good as the Shenmue remasters.If this would be any better, it would need to be a straight up remake like mafia 1. This is a notch below,but thats ok,because its not a remake.But for a remaster 8/10.
24 hours early?! Wait until they hear when I played through them completely...
GTA San Andreas definitive edition has just popped up on ps store on ps5 as a standalone game. It's listed next to the trilogy so maybe thats why they pulled the listings. Seems they are adding them as individual games and as a trilogy
I preordered it and preloaded everything. I better be able to play when I get home from work in 12 hours. New job, I don't feel comfortable calling out sick.
I think this is exactly what R* need - they need a bit of a shake to get them back in the game. They’ve been riding the success of GTA V for way too long and have become complacent.
Them pulling the game from the store is pretty shady though. What don’t they want us to see? Oh... yeah... too late I’m afraid. Information travels fast these days and it’s already out there for everyone to see and share. Them pulling the game just makes them look even worse.
This should have been a celebration of their past works but has quickly turned into a PR nightmare.
Lol. I didn’t preorder the game but I plan to pick it up in some capacity after seeing how it performs on all platforms. Might wait for a price drop of the physical release for Switch or something depending how that version runs. Otherwise it’ll be PS4 Pro or PC for me.
@NateGoesLive can when they launch disc versions later i think because ps now only getting Gta3 and game pass only getting san andreas
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