Rockstar has 'no current plans' for Red Dead Redemption on PC

by Alexander Sliwinski on Jun 11th 2010 8:00PM

Sorry, keyboard cowpokes, it appears Rockstar Games has "no current plans" to mosey Red Dead Redemption over to PC. A Rockstar rep dropped the info nugget on the company's site when asked whether a PC version of the console exclusive hit was in the works. Red Dead Redemption has turned out to be a surprise hit for Take-Two Interactive, shipping over 5 million units since it rode onto the scene in May.

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Source: R* Games

Tags: pc, red-dead-redemption, Rockstar-San-Diego, Take-Two-Interactive

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dang i would love to see some mods people could come up with

@JAK33
also thanks joystiq for not making to confirm every comment before it showed up

@JAK33 I wanna see Some more story based DLC for it, Great Game.

@JAK33 I want to see more story-based DLC for this game, Great Game IMO

"We have no plans to make a ton of money off this." Sure.

Suurrrreee. This will hit PC in about 6 months. I hope so anyway cause GTA on the PC is the best way to play it.

@Kleptomaniac No kidding, what was the last RockStar game that *didn't* get a PC version a few months later?

@Kleptomaniac
Rockstar said the same thing about having "no current plans" for GTA4 on PC as well. I think Red Dead Redemption will eventually make its way onto PCs. A PC version would net them an additional million or two sales on top of their already high 5 million copies.

Their ports are typically pretty jank anyway...so, thanks?

@Pratfall

Exactly.

Console ports are usually balls and third person games are better with a controller anyway.

At this point every PC gamer should have a console. Especially when they are cheaper than most good video cards. If you can afford a decent gaming setup with 5.1, large monitor etc. then buying a console should be a next-upgrade no-brainer.

I'd rather play PC games that are made for PC than second-thought console ports and console games made for consoles. That way you don't miss out on games like RDR and STALKER/Witcher/Company of Heroes/insertnameofanydecentPCreleaseyoucan rmemberhere.

@Pratfall

Nope nope nope.

Yeah the GTA4 PC port had some bad optimization issues and it took about 6 months to satisfy people. Moreoftenthannot, they didn't take the time to properly otimize the settings. For some reason, everything ran high as possible, but shadows couldn't go above medium without stuttering on my high end pc. This is with a 1 gig of memory on my video card, 8 gigs of ram and an I7 processor. The majority severely underestimated running the engine in a higher resolution desktop.

Every gta since 3, san andreas, vice city, manhunt 1, 2 were just fine all around. max payne was fine, bully turned out fine.

Max payne 3 is hitting PC right up front, but they also said they had no plans for PC versions of episodes from liberty city, but not only did they deliver, they were fantastic. No bugs that time around, period!

Bad ports my ass, they usually take the time to get the visuals above par even what they just did with consoles. Red Dead will make its way, and it will be pretty. it won't be a runaway hit but it will definately have its customers on PC.

@Pratfall
By the way, i strongly feel the GTA4 is the definative version to own if you have the cash, love and time to get it as close to maxed out as possible, higher density traffic, replay editor (if you are into that) and the always appreciated independant fm (your own station) and I personally got curious and downloaded some extra fan made things such as a small script editor changing all the cars to their REAL names, serious improvements to weather scripting, and whatever else you can tweak visually or even get into the crazy garbage that is modding.
..can you say gta nerd, totally.

@Pratfall
Well, I really wouldn't care if it was worse than the console version, I would prefer RDR on pc than console. Sharing the only good tv in the house with the rest of my family isn't fun =(

This makes me sad. :(

I'm pretty sure it'll end up there just like GTAIV did.

This is good news! Denying they have any current plans to release a PC port is always what Rockstar does a couple months before announcing the PC port. This is just a necessary step towards getting RDR on the PC.

Unfortunately for port prospects the game is selling so well on consoles they'll probably want to hold off till at least a year after the console release.

I like your way of thinking.

that's convenient... i have no current plans to give them any money.

so it seems to be a win/win!

Well, I certainly do hope that it comes out sooner or later on PC.

I'm saddened by this. I had loads of fun on the PC version and loved the extra video features and better graphics.
The game was not flawless by any means, but I experienced non of these apparently huge bugs which so many people seem to mention.
I've bought far worse ports.

I would have bought RDR in a heart-beat for PC.

Midnight Club LA, by Rockstar San Diego, who made RDR, which was their previous game...

Hmmm testing, I don't think the reply system works proper. It made to reply to the wrong unverified...

Red Dead wasn't made by Rockstar North though, the part of Rockstar that made Red Dead has NEVER brought out their games on the PC.

bully, still isn't on the pc if i remember correctly.

Red Dead Revolver and that Ping-Ping game never got ported last I checked. But I can live without playing those. Only reason I've been holding back from getting it for console is because I want to play Redemption on the PC. I want my character skinned as Clint Eastwood dammit!

The "surprise hit" thing is sarcasm, right?

@otatop
Apparently, according to initial analysts, Rockstar was only looking forward to recouping the costs associated with RDR's extended development cycle.
That might explain why they didn't print up enough copies; there was a week in May when no retail shelf in the UK had a copy left!

That explains why I had to go to 3 stores to buy it. Thanks!

Bought this for PS3, cause I can't wait a YEAR to play this shit.

Oh my bad

What a shame.

WWWWWHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYY?

Happened to me too >.

I'll wait for the PC port, I don't want to play it on my 360. I have enough games to tide me over anyways.

Of course they are gonna say that, the console game just came out. When sales drop they will announce the PC version. Right now they don't want to undermine making as much profit NOW as they can.

Rockstar is going to get the S*** Kicked out of them by Angry Joe for this.
Oh well. If GTA IV PC was anything to go by, this is a good thing.

Heck yes, I've played GTA4 on all three platforms and the PC is the definitive version, and I do have a nice rig, an i7 920 with a GTX 285. Its especially great with a trainer utility, spawn any car, character, weapon, object, etc. No way I can play the console versions now!

They are probably just saying this in hopes to sell a few more copies of the console version, because they know some are waiting on the PC version. That way when they announce the PC version they can make 2 sales from the same customers.

Meh, too bad for people who are into this type of games I guess. The only open world game I care about is Mafia 2 and I could care less about RDR.

They said the some thing about GTA IV around six months before it was released on the PC.

Its not suprising the PC Version of GTA4 did not sell that well

Reply system is messed up.

Well I can't blame them for not doing this although I am very disappointed in this news. Piracy is big, and it would be huge for this game.

Meh. Let's not put too many pirates on this cowboy specific game.

360 piracy not as big as on PC.

Classical ''no plans'' = 6-8 months. JUST LIKE EVERY SINGLE R PC PORT

Fine. Whatever. If/when they do decide to Port it over to PC, if it ships with SecureROM I won't buy it. I have not bought GTA IV because of this.

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