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There’s still a long way to go, but GTA 6 was announced for release in 2025. With a PC release yet to be announced, the game is expected to come to current-gen consoles. This includes Sony’s PS5 and Microsoft’s Xbox Series X and S. . As long as there are no major delays, when it launches, we’ll be in the fifth year of its lifespan. The toughest of them will probably handle the tension of Rockstar’s long-awaited title, I’m worried. that the Xbox Series S is rarely made to work.
Rockstar’s upcoming title has been in the works since 2014, according to Bloomberg. By the time it launches, there’s going to be nearly 11 years of development behind the game. You can already see this in the trailer. Vice City is gloriously textured, dense, visceral and alive. This is, however, a cinematic showcase of what the game could look like. We’ve yet to see any gameplay footage to suggest what visuals the next RAGE (Rockstar’s game engine) might offer up.
If there’s ever been a game that can even live up to GTA 6’s expectations, it’s Starfield. It’s also a game in progress for a long time, Bethesda-area opera has been the subject of heavy complaints before and after its release, thanks to the 30fps cap on Xbox Series X and S. According to an interview between IGN and Todd Howard (head of Bethesda Game Studios), the game was limited: “Because we need that faithfulness, we need all of that. If it’s consistency that developers are looking for if we’re looking to release giant games like Starfield and GTA 6, then the hardware disparity between the Xbox Series S and its peers will actually influence how the game is designed on a basic level.
Game series as vast and dense as Grand Theft Auto want to evolve. GTA V, for example, was introduced on PS3 and Xbox 360 over 10 years ago and released for free on current-gen consoles. Of course, this also comes with primary updates to the game engine and the editing differences are necessarily remasters themselves. However, basically, the games were the same. Textures can be very different from console to console, as well as graphical features like ray tracing and higher resolution, but those are aesthetic presumptions. The design of the game, which is based on crowd density, object placement, scenes, and story sequences, had to stay the same.
While GTA Five on PSfive arguably seems pretty natural among other recently released AAA games, at its core it’s still a seventh-gen game. It’s not a blemish on GTA V, but it does warn us of the potential limitations that the future will have. The Xbox Series S game can also produce. It’s by no means a weak console – it can run games in 1440p at 30 FPS pretty well, including Starfield. That said, it’s a game capped at 30 FPS on a console that deserves to hit 60 FPS in games at most. This means that we can also see that the hardware really starts to struggle and curb the potential of the software.
Rockstar, no doubt wary of the Series S’s slight limitations compared to its peers, will probably want to implement some serious scaling for this consistency across all consoles. Sacrifices will probably have to be made. There’s a good chance the solution will be limited, which is what most people are interested in: either the game will have to see a frame rate cap like Starfield on console, or it will have to incorporate the upgradeability into other editions of the game. Think of roads with part cars, part trees, and part population. Whether it’s a sacrifice of optimisation or immersion, it’s hard to see how the Series S edition of the game will ever be able to live up to the PS5. Considering how similar the current generation of consoles is to PCs with compromised graphical settings, such as functionality and consistency modes, Rockstar can take it a step further by optimizing its new open-world game for current hardware, while also making plans. Console iterations are coming in the near future.
We’ll have to wait a few years to find out.
Amaar loves old-fashioned hardware and boring games with more words than action, so he writes about them daily.