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Grand Theft Auto V On The PC Was Always Planned To Happen

It has taken nearly a year and half to get here, but finally Grand Theft Auto V will launch on PC tomorrow. With the port being so late, you could be forgiven for thinking that the decision to make it was arrived at much later on due to community pressure.

Not so it seems.

While speaking to PC Gamer, Rockstar revealed that a PC version of the game had been in the works alongside the original Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 release. Rockstar North's director of technology Phil Hooker said:

We were always going to bring GTA 5 to PC. We planned from day 1 for a PC build and we made technical decisions based off the fact that we would be doing a PC version of the game. While we started development of the PC version quite early, we decided to focus the bulk of our attention on the PS3 and XB360 versions first in order to push that as far as we possibly could before turning our attention to the PS4 and Xbox One versions, and then using the shared architecture underpinning the new consoles to help ourselves ramp up into the PC version and push the game as far as we possibly could knowing we would have the opportunity to make the game look and feel better than it ever has.

This is certainly looking like the real 'definitive' version of the game and I have no doubt the Director mode and stellar visuals will impress. Knowing it has been in the work for a long time too should be reassuring. This (probably) isn't going to be just a quick port. There appears to be some extra value at play here that players may value.

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