{"id":72670,"date":"2026-07-29T22:19:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=72670"},"modified":"2026-07-29T22:19:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:19:58","slug":"rockstar-co-founder-and-gta-co-creator-on-physical-games-companies-should-provide-it-if-people-want-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=72670","title":{"rendered":"Rockstar Co-Founder And GTA Co-Creator On Physical Games: Companies Should Provide It If People Want It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dan Houser, the co-founder of Rockstar Games and co-creator of the GTA franchise, has commented on the ongoing discussion and debate about physical games in the wake of Sony&#8217;s decision to stop supporting discs in 2028. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to IGN, Houser said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know that I care.&#8221; But he said, &#8220;If people want that, I think companies should provide it.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;But I don&#8217;t know that I personally care,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He went on to say that one of the benefits of digital games is &#8220;the ability to update and fix problems,&#8221; and this has been &#8220;really useful for the quality of games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-context=\"{ &quot;core&quot;: { &quot;image&quot;: { &quot;initialized&quot;: true } } }\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1835427\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GTA_d859ba.jpg?w=636\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1835427\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A scene from GTA 6.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Houser left Rockstar in 2020. His brother, Sam Houser, remains at Rockstar ahead of GTA 6&#8217;s release in November. Dan Houser now works at Absurd Ventures with another former Rockstar veteran, Lazlow Jones. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jones said in the IGN interview that he understands how good it can feel to pop a disc into a console, but he also appreciates being able to, for example, download a game at the airport and then play it on a flight. Dan Houser, meanwhile, added, &#8220;I love physical media.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Absurd Ventures is working on multiple open-world, action-adventure video game projects. One takes place in the sci-fi world of the company&#8217;s A Better Paradise comic series, and the other takes place inside the studio&#8217;s comedy satire world, Absurdaverse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sony is no longer going to support physical game discs on PlayStation starting in January 2028. The company said it&#8217;s doing this due to &#8220;shifting trends in consumer preference.&#8221; Experts believe the real reason is that Sony can make more money and have more control with an all-digital future. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The biggest game of 2026, GTA 6, will be a digital-exclusive. Rockstar will sell a boxed copy of GTA 6 at retail, but people are only getting a code in the box. <\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/rockstar-co-founder-and-gta-co-creator-on-physical-games-companies-should-provide-it-if-people-want-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Houser, the co-founder of Rockstar Games and co-creator of the GTA franchise, has commented on the ongoing discussion and debate about physical games in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3330,7887,4338,321,3402,121,4810,484,3400],"class_list":["post-72670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-cocreator","tag-cofounder","tag-companies","tag-games","tag-gta","tag-people","tag-physical","tag-provide","tag-rockstar","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}