
Rockstar Games might be bringing its GTA+ subscription service to Nintendo Switch. At least, that's what we thought momentarily. For a brief period, the GTA developer had Nintendo's hybrid console mentioned on its subscription site, but this nod has since been removed (thanks, VGC).
The GTA+ service offers access to "a rotating assortment of classic Rockstar Games titles" and exclusive GTA Online items, vehicles and cosmetics for those who play the £6.99 / €7.99 / $7.99 monthly subscription. At the time of writing, this is only available on PS5 and Xbox Series, but, as noted by Twitter user @TezFunz2, the Switch was briefly mentioned in the list of 'Games Included With GTA+', leading to speculation about whether the subscription would expand to more consoles in the near future.
As flagged in the above tweet, the Switch inclusion has since been removed, with the games resorting to PS5 and Xbox Series platforms only.
Red Dead Redemption, L.A. Noire and Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition are all included in the GTA+ subscription (all of which are currently available on Switch) alongside Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Chinatown Wars.
The Switch's momentary inclusion might suggest that the three games currently on the console could become playable 'for free' if the paid subscription was to extend to Nintendo platforms. Obviously, none of the GTA Online benefits would carry over on account of GTA V not being on Switch.
Of course, it all could just be a mistake. The three games included in the above tweet are all available on Switch and nothing specifically states an expansion of the service. Better keep the 'GTA+ on Switch' theory seasoned with a good few pinches of salt until we hear anything official.
Can you see GTA+ coming to Switch? Would you subscribe? Let us know in the comments.
[source x.com, via videogameschronicle.com]
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GTA for Switch 2 launch confirmed!
My money's on "mistake" but this is probably going to be on the Switch 2
Switch can run GTA V, period. It's just Rockstar Games who don't care about porting it. GTA Online makes money, not GTA V.
@KIRO god I hope so.
@Vyacheslav333 100%. GTA V on switch would be dream come true. : D
@JimNorman Hey Jim! I don't know if this was intentional, but at the beginning of the article you just copy-pasted the title with no period and an enter after it.
@Yousef- Multiplayer Feature Adhoc Support and playable in offline True Dream Come Handheld
Imagine paying to freaking RENT GTA.
And yet I suspect that they'd still skimp on the full soundtracks of the classics. Screw that.
@SearchingS I can’t decipher if this is sarcasm or not but I only care about the single player I don’t play gta online.
I've wondered about signing up for a stray month sometime to do a run of San Andreas (played 3 and Vice City when they were on PS Plus) but can't see any reason I'd keep up a regular subscription. Don't play GTA Online and already own LA Noire and Red Dead Redemption.
@NINTELDRITCH Huh, no idea what happened there! Thanks for flagging 👍
Could be just a mistake, could be a placeholder for Switch 2 or even straight up for Switch... we'll see what it actually means if we get an official announcement, but it's interesting nonetheless!
That said, personally I'll gladly buy the games instead of subscribing to such a service.
It makes no sense to port it to Switch at this point.
Must be Switch 2.
Whats with Rockstar and the way they treat Nintendo fans? Switch still doesn't have GTA V. Even though I would prefer to have GTA IV.
Physical copies of GTA Definitive Edition & Red Dead Redemption for Switch seem to never go on sale even though most of the games aren't even on the cartridge.
I'm glad I have a Steam Deck OLED to play most of the Rockstar games I enjoy!
I understand why RDR2 isn't available for Switch. But the older stuff should have been on Switch a long time ago. That's easy money sitting there, Rockstar.
@DTfearTheBEARD same here. IV is my favorite R* game.
Mmm. I'm neither here nor there with a GTA sub service. I haven't had an itch for this series in years.
@DTfearTheBEARD : To be fair, Red Dead Redemption is on the cartridge (with a handful of minor post-launch patches), but Rockstar seriously skimped on the GTA Trilogy. Vice City isn't on the cartridge at all (it's just an unplayable launcher), and the other two games have substantial updates, with San Andreas's patch exceeding the size of Vice City!
If I were to humour this at all, I'd frankly rather see an excuse for speculating about GTA V itself finally coming to Switch. Extending cross-plat subscription perks within one game is not entirely unlike "battle passes" etc and thus much easier to imagine than Nintendo greenlighting a whole third party ecosystem on their platform. Didn't they reportedly turn down EA on the subject way back when?
@Yousef- GTA IV is so underrated! My second favorite GTA after San Andreas. I recently played through it on Steam Deck OLED, and it runs pretty well.
It's nice to be able to play the 360 version on Series X thru backwards compatibility.
But I would love to have GTA IV Complete Edition on a cartridge for my Switch.
@SillyG You are correct. RDR on cartridge is fine. I was thinking about GTA Trilogy & L.A. Noir.
Bioshock & Borderlands Collection also has the same thing with mandatory downloads of most of the games, even with the cartridge. But that's more of a 2K problem.
@Vyacheslav333 It likely can...but I think they would rather GTA Online ran flawlessly than compromise with Switch limitations for every update they do for it. The 360/PS3 versions eventually shut down GTA Online while the other versions carried on after all.
Can see it happening on Switch 2, but I think that depends on their plans for 5 once GTA 6 comes out.
@KIRO we can only hope!
That's their loss. They failed to put their bestselling game on the bestselling modern console (also potentially the best selling console of all time).
@eaglebob345 aye, pretty much this. It's honestly not like anyone is short something great to play on the switch at this point there's games on the system to keep me playing for years to come. Rockstar just miss out on selling their hot cakes in a hot shop.
Bring back GTA 1 & 2!
We need FEWER subscriptions, not ***** more!
@Yousef- But the online Story mode content is plenty rich , i hope for a day we can play them in offline
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