GTA VI will even be playable on an Xbox One!
But there's a catch...
Clearly, PlayStation is the platform most gamers pick for Grand Theft Auto VI, and the reasons are sound. Even Rockstar admits "it plays better on PS". Xbox, meanwhile, sat quietly and didn't make too much fuss. Either Sony already has marketing exclusivity for GTA VI, or Xbox knew how hard it would be to compete and chose to put its money into other directions.
BUT! The green camp didn't sit this one out entirely. The first card was played with an absolutely brilliant teaser, showing a stuffed crocodile with a big Xbox Series X in its belly and a controller between its teeth. No mention of GTA VI, Rockstar, Lucia, Jason and the whole shebang. Short and memorable! Those few seconds of video will go down in gaming history: "Hang on, remember when Xbox did that teaser with an Xbox being eaten by a crocodile? What a laugh!"
The second card was laid on the table last night, when Xbox announced that GTA VI will be available from launch through Xbox Cloud Gaming. Okay, and what's so great about cloud streaming? You need a good connection, the picture is often soft, input lag creeps in, and so on. You're right, it's not the ideal way to play a game like this. But when you think about the madness of the past few weeks, or maybe even months, with hardware prices going mad, consoles included, cloud gaming starts to look like a decent option — at least for a while.
Xbox seems to have grasped this "crisis" and, more to the point, what gamers actually need. So playing GTA VI no longer feels quite so expensive and out of reach, even if you don't have the hardware for it.
And now for the best part of the story. Bear in mind there are still plenty of people who want to play GTA VI on 19 November but either can't bring themselves to buy a current-gen console or simply can't afford one. What they do have is an Xbox One. Give it a good dusting and put it to work! And just like that, the mighty GTA VI becomes playable on a console that launched around the time GTA V came out.
Obviously it's not the best experience, as I said earlier. Even on a good internet connection, Xbox says graphical fidelity will be Series S-level. But hey, at least you get to play alongside the rest of the world and dodge the spoilers, as far as that's possible.
Maybe it isn't extraordinary news for everyone, especially if your setup is already ready and you've maybe even got the game downloaded. Still, I appreciate that Xbox is trying to make games as accessible as it can.
What about you? Would you be curious to play GTA VI on an Xbox One?
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