Rockstar Plans to Announce Much Anticipated ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’::Rockstar Games, a division of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., plans to announce the next highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto game as early as this week, according to people familiar with its plans.
Second most anticipated game of all time (half life 3 still not confirmed).
Edit: for clarity, if Steam announced that they were going to announce Half Life 3 tomorrow, the news it'd generate would completely drown out any and all noise relating to the GTAVI release announcement.
GTA is more popular than HL by orders of magnitude. HL is popular, but HL3 has more meme power than anything. I don't think many console-only players care too much about Valve titles.
...Or maybe your comment is also part of the meme and went over my head.
Edit: But personally I also look forward to HL3 more... If it ever materialises :(
The avg gamer/person doesn't give a fuck about Half Life. That ship has looooong sailed. Without the memes that game series would just be a historical footnote somewhere when discussing Counter Strike.
150k people went out of their way to buy a $1k headset on top of a fancy PC so they can play the half life VR spinoff. People today would absolutely pay $30 for Half-Life 3 if it was innovative and impressive. The ship hasn't sailed, the bar was simply raised.
I don't mean the release of FIFA, I mean the games that groups of people play and are aware of. If even non-big-gamers are hyped for a game, then oh boy.
You're comparing steak and a big mac here. They have largely separate target buyers and operate at different levels of quality/craftsmanship. Yes, HL3 would grind the gaming news media to a halt while this fluff article about GTA6 is just fluff.
But the steak isn't selling more copies that the big mac. This is what people are arguing with you over.