wait what, what does online have to do with GTAV? game is a massive single player experience that I've never once went online in any of the 3 versions of it I own PS3/360/PS4 I mean this is just getting into pedantic things unrelated to the game. I'm sure some people enjoy the game differently but Live is not required to play GTAV, also my X360 on the desk behind me, is a day one system with no HDMI after years of play... and 2 completely free trips to Microsoft for repair, their cover of that fuck up was very well documented and their customer support of it cost them well over 1 billion dollars.

As for "you can get it years after launch for X price" well... yeah you can pick up a X360 for €30e today and it will still play GTAV which is the same AAA game that is stuck in the top 10 all the way from launch until this site stopped doing software charts. There's no real two ways about it at no point since the launch of the X360 could you get a PC for the same Price which would run the game, as the hardware cost of PC's which were capable dropped so did the X360,

as for the hardware from 2005 still getting AAA releases, is there a GPU from 2005 that can play things like Farcry 5? or Anthem on the PC?

It still blows my mind to this day some of the graphics devs managed to squeeze out of the 360. I play mine a fair bit to this day, and I still sometimes find myself taken aback that what I'm seeing is running on console hardware from 2005.