After years of development, multiple delays, and what can only be assumed to be one of the biggest production budgets ever, Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto 6 launches on November 19. The game is poised to “blot out the sun,” some experts believe, and its release looms so large that other gaming companies are shifting dates for their own games to stay out of the blast radius.
Francis Lawrence, the director of the new Hunger Games movie Sunrise on the Reaping, which comes out a day after GTA 6, has said he hopes people can find the time to play the game and watch his movie. In short, GTA 6 is seen by some as a black hole that will suck up time, attention, and money from the broader gaming economy–and even workplaces, as people dive into the 80-hour game they’ve been waiting a decade to play.
To help make sense of, and contextualize, the enormity of GTA 6’s looming launch, GameSpot caught up with Bart Spiegel of the global professional services and research company PricewaterhouseCoopers, or PwC. He told GameSpot that GTA 6 is “something much bigger than a traditional entertainment launch,” and is more akin to an event like the Olympics.
