Rockstar Games, Take-Two and XBOX have signed a 10 year deal for Grand Theft Auto VI. In a monumental agreement, GTA 6 will be launching day one in the cloud with XBOX. That’s according to XBOX CEO Asha Sharma in a new Tweet.
This “strategic partnership” is not an exclusivity agreement but the game is exclusively streaming on XBOX from launch day. Sony would be free to sign a deal with Take-Two if they want but so far have not. This was previously leaked.
This agreement also limits the game to only stream on XBOX Series X|S or XBOX One consoles as per the XBOX blog post. Typically, games can be streamed to PC, phones, TV and the like. Evidently, Take-Two do not want PC or mobile gamers streaming the game to their devices. They want everyone to wait and pay for a PC version at some point next year. This change to XBOX Cloud Streaming is unheard of.
As part of this agreement, Rockstar are bringing more of their titles to XBOX Cloud Gaming in the coming months. This will include Grand Theft Auto V, Red Dead Redemption 2, and more.
Starting November 11th, players in supported markets can buy cloud playtime to stream supported games without a Game Pass subscription. Streaming for Grand Theft Auto VI begins at 1am ET on November 19th.
This news comes CEO Sharma shared that GTA VI is already the most pre-ordered game ever on Microsoft Store over a week before its release. A new estimate published on Tuesday suggests the game has closed in on 10 million copies sold already.
In other Grand Theft Auto VI news, we have shared everything you can see and get from the popup store here. Plus, the game has been confirmed to be 30FPS on all platforms.
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