Dan Houser, co-founder of Rockstar Games, has revealed during an interview with Lex Fridman why the Grand Theft Auto franchise hasn’t revisited a London setting beyond PSOne/PC outing GTA London: 1969, or any other city outside of the USA for that matter.
“We made a little thing in London 26 years ago, GTA London, for the top-down one for the PS1. That was pretty cute and fun,” he said. Houser explained that Rockstar “always decided there was so much Americana inherent in the IP, it would be really hard to make it work in London or anywhere else,” explaining “you needed guns, you needed these larger-than-life characters.”
The game was so much about America, possibly from an outsider’s perspective That was so much about what [the series] was that it wouldn’t really have worked in the same way elsewhere.
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Rockstar Games is currently working on the next instalment in the Grand Theft Auto franchise, which is set to arrive in May 2026 for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. The subject of GTA VI’s price has been talked about a lot in recent months, and recently the design director of the original Saints Row has stated that Rockstar’s upcoming crime opus ‘deserves‘ to be priced at $100.
[Source – Lex Fridman via GamesRadar]