Grand Theft Auto 6 won two awards at the Golden Joystick Awards yesterday, even though it won't be out for another year. To little surprise, it was named Most Wanted Game, and also took home the prize for Best Trailer.
It's been claimed that the lengthy delay was in aid of avoiding a "Cyberpunk scenario", but in winning the Most Wanted award, GTA 6 already shares a similarity with Cyberpunk 2077. That is because CD Projekt Red's RPG was also a two-time winner of the Most Wanted Game at the Golden Joysticks, having been hit with many delays itself.
Going back through previous wins, we can see that games almost never win Most Wanted Game (or One To Watch, as it was sometimes called) twice in a row. But three titans of industry hype have won consecutively now: GTA 6, Cyberpunk 2077, and The Witcher 3.
This will sting for fans, since we were actually supposed to be playing GTA 6 by now, but it was much the same case for Cyberpunk. That just kept getting delayed and delayed until launching in a subpar state in 2020, eventually fixed through updates. Long-suffering fans will be hoping that GTA 6...
