The man who runs Rockstar Games’ parent company, Take-Two Interactive, isn’t worried about GTA 6 on Xbox Series S. Speaking during the company’s quarterly call with investors, Take Two’s CEO Strauss Zelnick answered several questions about GTA 6.
He reconfirmed GTA VI will launch in Fall 2025 at the moment and that they won’t release GTA VI and Borderlands 4 close together. However, the most interesting answer gave us an insight into how Rockstar and Take-Two view GTA 6 on Microsoft’s budget friendly current gen console.
What’s up with Xbox Series S
As we know, all games that release for Xbox Series consoles have to release on both X and S devices. Whilst similarly specced, the cheaper model has cuts in a few areas which limit things like resolution and frame rate in many games.
Whilst people who purchase the Xbox Series S largely don’t care it isn’t running games at 4K with ray tracing, it is harder to develop games for. This is due to less RAM, lower bandwidth speed and GPU clock speed. Some games developers have criticised it whilst others have no issue with it.
Given what we saw of GTA VI in its first trailer last year, many fans have been worried what the game will look and perform like on Series S. The game appears to be pushing graphical and gameplay limits like we’ve never seen before. There are far less demanding titles struggling on Series S.
That said, Rockstar Games has some of the greatest engineers in the business. What the studio achieved with Red Dead Redemption 2 over 6 years ago on Xbox One and PS4 is nothing short of incredible. The game is still better looking than many titles released in present day. The artists and engineers are some of the best around.
Nothing to worry about
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick also knows this. When asked about how Xbox Series S might be “harder to execute on some of the things (Rockstar) … want to do”, Zelnick said he is not worried.
The boss said “We support the platforms where the consumers are for as long as they’re there, and we find a way to support platforms despite different levels of tech. Our labels are really good at that. I’m not really worried. I’ve never worried about where hardware was going. And I’ve said this many times over the years because, first of all, I don’t worry about things over which I have zero control. And secondly because I do believe in the audience. The audience is going to show up if you have great properties, and so we just have to make sure to be on an array of platforms.”
GTA VI is set to release in Fall 2025 on Xbox Series X|S and PS5. Experts say the newly released PS5 Pro will struggle to get GTA 6 to 60FPS.
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