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GTA: The Trilogy Remaster Announcement Crashed Rockstar's Website
The Rockstar Games website crashed after the announcement of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - Definitive Edition. The upcoming release was widely rumored and leaked ahead of its Friday announcement, making it a bit of an open secret. Rockstar Games confirmed it will be releasing remasters of the GTA trilogy later this year for most modern platforms, including Nintendo Switch, PC, and mobile, and the news seems to have resonated with players online.
The GTA: The Trilogy remasters are expected to bring a number of graphical and gameplay improvements to Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice City, and San Andreas. Rockstar is releasing the games as a way of celebrating the looming 20th anniversary of GTA 3, which thrust the series into its now well-known 3D sandbox formula. The reveal of these remasters has been heavily rumored all year long, so the official confirmation was hotly anticipated by many. As a result, eager fans seem to have crashed Rockstar's website once the information dropped.
The Rockstar Games website was down for a short time after the company released a blog post detailing the remasters, with the site only directing to an internal server error page for at least 15 minutes. In the post, Rockstar confirmed it would be removing the original GTA trilogy from digital stores and shared tidbits not present elsewhere, such as a reference to the GTA remasters' graphical and gameplay enhancements. The site is back up now so that information is once again easily accessible, but the fact that it crashed at all may speak volumes about public interest in GTA: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition.
With the GTA 3 20th anniversary slated for later this month, it seems likely Rockstar will discuss GTA: The Trilogy more in-depth then. It's possible the developer will say more prior to October 22, but if there were ever a day for a full trailer and a more descriptive blog post to drop, that date is a strong candidate. The collection is currently confirmed for a 2021 release window on consoles and PC. There are rumors that the GTA trilogy will launch in November, possibly to take over the empty release slot previously occupied by the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S re-releases of Grand Theft Auto V prior to their delay.
Rockstar doesn't seem bothered by its holiday competition. Seeing as though interested visitors took its site down at a simple GTA: The Trilogy announcement probably bodes well for the collection. Rockstar has built up its studio size and reputation significantly since the acclaimed releases of GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2, to the point that many customers seem ready to buy the remastered games before more details have even been made available.
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - Definitive Edition will release on Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, and PC in 2021, and it will launch on iOS and Android in the first half of 2022.
