GTA 3 celebrated 23 years since its release. The game could have significantly changed the history of the series

The release of the crime action game took place on October 23, 2001.

At the time of its release, GTA 3 was available on PC and PlayStation 2. On Sony consoles, the title was incredibly successful, but Xbox management did not see the potential in the game, as the head of Xbox partner relations, Kevin Bacchus, said several years ago. As a result, the title sold 14.5 million copies, of which a significant part were sales on PS2.

A few years later, GTA 3 finally made it to Xbox. If this had happened earlier, the history of the GTA franchise could have been different.