Who's still buying GTA 5 these days, I ask myself, having owned the latest main series entry of Rockstar's long-standing crime sim series on four different platforms over the last 10 years. I'm clearly among a distinguished number of players in the same situation, and part of the reason why the fifth-numbered Grand Theft Auto game has maintained an omnipresent place in top-sellers charts across consoles and PC for over a decade.
Speaking very personally, my relationship with GTA 5 has evolved in distinct stages. At launch in 2013, I was swallowed up by its Michael, Franklin and Trevor-starring story mode, reveling in the crimes and capers this trifecta of antiheroes endured all over the Blaine County and the Los Santos city sprawl. By the time GTA 5 rolled around on PS4 the following year, I began cutting my teeth in GTA Online.
