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GTA Online is Rockstar Games' focus following the release of Grand Theft Auto V Develop . “We don’t know what GTA 6 will be, but we’ve got some ideas."

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By the end of GTA 4's development cycle, Rockstar had started conceiving what would eventually become GTA 5 -- but development proper wouldn't begin for two years after Niko Bellic's debut. Benzies said, "It comes from the idea first. Where is it going to be set is the first question. Then that defines the missions; you’re doing different things in LA than in New York or Miami. The map and story get worked up together, and the story is a basic flow of how it works out so you can layer the missions in."Benzies also said Rockstar considered a trio of characters for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which tied into its three separate cities, "but it didn’t work from a tech point of view because the three characters need three times as much memory, three types of animation, and so on."GTA Online launched to some significant issues this week, which Rockstar is currently resolving . The multiplayer side of GTA 5 will almost certainly keep the studio in the current-gen spotlight in the coming months

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