GTA 4 is celebrating its 15th birthday this year, making it an old-school title. However, some fans would still love to play it on their smartphones.onech. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem like a very realistic idea. Here are a few reasons why GTA 4 players on Android devices should iOS They shouldn't have waited too long.
Smartphone graphics performance has come a long way in the last few years, allowing high-end mobile devices to perform at their best.onem compete with computers from the past, so technically it is possible to run the game from 2008 on a smartphone. However, GTA 4 lags behind even on some very decently equipped computer systems, and the situation is even worse on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles. Unfortunately, GTA 4 never received an updated version for eighth and ninth generation consoles, and the FPS problem on PC has not been completely resolved either. The data requirements are also unavoidable, as more than 20 GB of free space would need to be freed up to run the title on a smartphone. Some of you will certainly argue that storage or performance is not a problem for newer iPhones these days. But that is precisely the catch. In order for it to make sense to port the game to phones, it needs to be "launched" on as many models as possible. Once this fails, developers lose potential players as a result, and their appetite for porting logically decreases.
Would there be interest?
GTA 4 was a bestseller for the first two years after its release. However, its sales gradually declined andonec were even lower than in the case of GTA San Andreas. The downward trend continued (logically) even after the release of GTA 5. The potential for commercial success of GTA 4 on Android and iOS is therefore at least controversial.
Take-Two, which owns Rockstar Games, probably isn't interested in wasting resources on making a port for a small audience. After the failure of GTA: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition and the risk of outsourcing development, it is hard to believe that we will see the release of GTA 4 for mobile platforms. Another reason is the very concept of the title, when GTA 4 bet on realism and serious storytelling, which is not very suitable for mobile gaming.
While Rockstar's relatively small development team is able to port a game from the early 2000s to smartphones, doing the same with GTA 4 is not just about the great visuals, but it's something else. It would require a lot of financial and human resources to run the game on a reasonable number of mobile devices. Additionally, GTA 6 is in active development and it is also important for Rockstar to support and release DLC for GTA Online.
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As a result, it can be said that, taking into account the mentioned circumstances, the idea of porting the game is unlikely to meet with a positive response from publishers, while legitimate concerns about overshadowing potential profits by high costs of implementation play a role here.
The fact that GTA 4 had lower sales is also due to the fact that it was only released on the PS3 on PS consoles.
If they released it for PS4 after a while, sales would go up.