They are looking to move even further into the black when the game's online
multiplayer component launches this week.
Rockstar Games has confirmed that RDR2 will indeed feature online multiplayer, which will presumably be similar to that of Grand Theft Auto Online —
the multiplayer component launched for Grand Theft Auto 5 roughly a month after the triple - A title's launch and that has remained popular to this day on the PC and current - gen console versions of the game.
Not exact matches
Of course, this does not refer to the game, which will
launch on Xbox One at the same time as on PS4, but rather downloadable content for Red Dead Online, the
multiplayer component.
Konami plans to
launch Metal Gear Online, the competitive
multiplayer component for Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, for the Windows PC version of the game on Jan. 12 in open beta.
This fact, that over the course of four years since
launch, no new content has been added to the game's solo campaign, has left many fans worried that Red Dead Redemption 2 might be even heavier on the
multiplayer side, with resources accordingly diverted away from the single player
component.
It introduced a
multiplayer component this past summer and
launched weekly updates timed to season three episodes of the show.
Metal Gear Online, the online
multiplayer component for Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain,
launched earlier today on Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
Metal Gear Online, the online competitive
multiplayer component of Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, won't be ready for the game's
launch, Konami announced this week.
Watch on YouTube Subscribe to Polygon on YouTube Metal Gear Online, the online
multiplayer component for Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain,
launched earlier today on Xbox One and PlayStation...
More info on the title can be found here, including info on the
multiplayer component of GTA V, GTA Online, which
launches October 1st and can not get here fast enough.
EA Maxis» Lucy Bradshaw announced at the EA E3 2012 press conference today that the upcoming SimCity would be
launching in February next year, along with its glorious
multiplayer components, so don't spend all of your Christmas money in January.
Fans can expect both a highly engaging single - player story mode and online
multiplayer components similar to GTA Online but it's currently unclear if
multiplayer will be available at
launch.
Like so many
multiplayer experiences or
components, Metal Gear Online has
launched -LSB-...]
Both games
launched with a
multiplayer component, but as of this writing, it's still in beta and experiencing some issues.
The
launch trailer gives us a brief glimpse into the frantic adrenaline rush players will experience throughout the
multiplayer component of Battlefield 4.
MGO was plagued with server issues and a disjointed
launch scheduled between platforms, however the mode has since evolved into a competent
multiplayer component where players can exercise their stealth tactics to their fullest.
Halo: The Master Chief Collection was supposed to make people want to buy an Xbox One, but a key
component —
multiplayer matchmaking — didn't work at
launch, nor two weeks after the fact.
Starting on February 3rd on Origin, PSN and Xbox Live, Visceral Games hope to test the limits of their
multiplayer component in order to provide a fun, stable build at
launch.
However, after the
launch of the game on 29 October — but most obviously following the arrival of the PlayStation 4 version on 15 November — there have been numerous problems with the software, especially its online
multiplayer component.
Halo Wars 2, which
launches today on Windows 10 and Xbox One, has no competitive ranking system for its
multiplayer component.
Rockstar Games recently delayed Red Dead Redemption 2 until the Spring of 2018 in order to further polish the title, so we'll still have to wait a while until we learn just what to expect from the microtransactions in this game... Especially if it follows GTA V's suit and the
multiplayer component is
launched a month after the initial release.