User blog comment:Austin J.Moulton/MC4?/@comment-32155055-20180703153049

GTA 5 is more popular (well that's what official stats show). I'm not a fan of GTA but since that's where the market is headed, R* has little choice to make a game to rival EA's NFS Payback.

Besides, Payback isn't any better than MCLA though as I see it, sure the age of cars in the games are wildly different but other than that, MC is always better than any other in one thing: free-roam racing.