{"id":114114,"date":"2020-06-12T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/364696"},"modified":"2020-06-12T14:49:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:49:00","slug":"gta-online-is-getting-a-standalone-release-on-playstation-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/12\/gta-online-is-getting-a-standalone-release-on-playstation-5\/","title":{"rendered":"GTA Online is getting a standalone release on PlayStation 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>GTA Online <\/em>will be released as a standalone title on the PlayStation 5. Although <em>GTA V <\/em>will also be making the next-gen leap (for the second time) in its entirety, Rockstar explained the lucrative online mode will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockstargames.com\/newswire\/article\/61603\/Grand-Theft-Auto-V-Coming-to-New-Generation-Consoles-in-2021\">getting a standalone release<\/a> on next-gen machines in the second half of 2021.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Notably, that souped up version of <em>GTA Online <\/em>will be made available for free to PlayStation 5 users during the first three months, suggesting the studio intends to charge for it further down the line. It will also feature original content exclusive to next-gen devices.<\/p>\n<p>Rockstar didn&#8217;t specifically mention an Xbox Series X version of <em>GTA V<\/em>, but did&nbsp;state&nbsp;that the game will be &#8220;coming to a new generation of consoles, including PlayStation 5,&#8221; so it seems likely the&nbsp;evergreen title will be heading to Microsoft&#8217;s dreamy&nbsp;obelisk in due course.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite launching almost seven years ago, <em>GTA Online<\/em> continues to be a big earner for Rockstar and parent company Take-Two Interactive.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last year,&nbsp;for instance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/353663\/Player_spending_in_Grand_Theft_Auto_Online_jumped_23_following_casino_update.php\">recurrent consumer spending increased by 23 percent in <em>GTA Online<\/em><\/a> following the release of the<em> Diamond Casino &amp; Resort <\/em>update in July 2019, with Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick praising the add-on&nbsp;for &#8220;delivering record player engagement across daily, weekly, and monthly active users in July, and then again in August.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GTA Online will be released as a standalone title on the PlayStation 5. Although GTA V will also be making the next-gen leap (for the second time) in its entirety, Rockstar explained the lucrative online mode will be getting a standalone release on next-gen machines in the second half of 2021.&nbsp; Notably, that souped up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}