With nearly 15 million units sold, Grand Theft Auto 3 is the second-best-selling video game on the PlayStation 2. We can safely say that it's one of the games that defined the best-selling video game console of all time, if not an entire console generation. Now, generations away, the game is making a surprise leap to a new platform.
Being the first of two officially PlayStation-exclusive GTA games helped the third numbered entry hit this legendary status. However, what if GTA 3 was also released on other consoles? Would it have had a similar impact? After all, it started development as a SEGA Dreamcast title.
Unfortunately, we can't travel back in time to find out if GTA 3 would've sold even more copies had it been a multi-platform title at launch, or if it could've saved the Dreamcast from going belly up — which ultimately led to SEGA bowing out of the console market. However, now we can at least play it on the now-defunct platform.
Decades after releasing on the PS2, and eventually, the PC and the original Xbox — believe it or not, Microsoft said no to Rockstar Games when the developers offered to make GTA exclusive to the Xbox — GTA 3 is finally playable on the Dreamcast.
According to Youtuber 'The Sega Guru', a developer named SKMP is working on an unofficial port of GTA 3 for the ill-fated Dreamcast using a combination of PC assets and a modded Dreamcast console. As you can see from the video, it's still very early in its development and will likely require a lot of resources.
Unlike remasters and homebrew ports for newer consoles — like what happened to Grand Theft Auto 5 and its Nintendo Switch port — getting GTA 3 to run on a considerably weaker console is a challenge. Officially named the "regta3dc" project, the GTA 3 Dreamcast port has garnered the support of many nostalgic gamers on the internet.
