GTA 6 Platforms

Rockstar named PS5 and Xbox Series X|S at the December 2023 reveal and has repeated only those two since. Just as important is what is missing: the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Grand Theft Auto V launched on the hardware of its day and was ported forward later, but GTA VI is a current-generation title from the start.

That matters because a game built around one generation can push harder on storage, memory and CPU than one that must also run on machines from 2013. Rockstar has not said this is the reason, but it fits the crowd density, draw distance and weather in the official trailers, which Rockstar says were captured in-game on PlayStation 5.

Not officially. Rockstar has not announced a PC version, a date or system requirements. History points to a gap rather than a day-one release: Grand Theft Auto V reached consoles in September 2013 and PC in April 2015, and Red Dead Redemption 2 reached PC about a year after its console launch. A PC edition is widely expected eventually, but eventually is not a date.

In early October, a report that Xbox held exclusive cloud-streaming rights briefly raised hopes of a PC route. Xbox chief strategy officer Matthew Ball responded that GTA VI will not be streaming on PC at launch and called the report misreporting. Separate press reports of a PC release within roughly three months of launch trace to anonymous sources, and Rockstar has not commented, so we list them as rumour. The full account is in our PC and cloud streaming explainer.

Because no PC version exists, there are no GTA 6 system requirements to publish. Any requirements list, PC download, Steam page or “emulator” you find is not from Rockstar, and files claiming to be GTA VI builds are a common route for malware.

Rockstar has published no resolution or frame-rate targets. The figures people quote come from analysts reading Rockstar’s own footage. According to coverage of Digital Foundry’s work, the Extended Look footage appears to run at roughly native 1440p on a base PS5, upscaled to 4K, at a mostly steady 30fps.

The analysts attribute the 30fps to CPU load from open-world simulation, and note that the PS5 Pro’s processor is only around 7% faster than the base console, so a bigger GPU cannot simply double the frame rate. These are inferences from marketing footage, not specifications, and because the footage was captured on PS5 there is no public evidence of how the Series X and Series S versions run. Our 30fps and PS5 Pro analysis goes through it.

Rockstar has not published an install size. Estimates from about 150GB to 300GB are guesses, and a figure reported for a development build is not a retail package. The size usually appears on the store listing once preload opens on November 12.

Boxed copies are not discs. Rockstar’s pre-order notes say they contain a code for the digital download, and the Ultimate Edition is digital only. Either way you need a stable connection and enough free space. The dates and editions are in our release date guide and editions and price guide; the details are in our preload guide.