Grand Theft Auto VI First Trailer Dropped Early, Launches in 2025 for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 December 2023 / 4,336 Views
Rockstar Games, following a leak online, has decided to drop the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI early.
The trailer for GTA 6 features the song "Love Is A Long Road" by Tom Petty and reveals the game is set in Vice City, a fictional version of Miami, and stars two protagonists.
"Grand Theft Auto VI continues our efforts to push the limits of what’s possible in highly immersive, story-driven open-world experiences," said
View the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI below:
Read details on GTA 6 below:
Grand Theft Auto VI heads to the state of Leonida, home to the neon-soaked streets of Vice City and beyond in the biggest, most immersive evolution of the Grand Theft Auto series yet.
Grand Theft Auto VI will for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S in 2025.
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Visually looks great, but the trailer itself did nothing for me.
Yeah trailer gives off recent saint row vibes
That’s just Florida
I think someone at Rockstar has a twerking fetish.
Looks good, have no hype for it tho.
Almost looks like some Mickey/Mallory kill trip from the movie Natural Born Killers. I like the fact that the 2 main characters appear to be lovers. May be tough if we have to kill one of them at the end.
Looks a little more serious than GTA5 and that's totally fine by me.
WOW, gonna be huge!
For anyone interested I went over the trailer breaking it down and uploaded it to YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWfmFs_g4ZI
I just can't find it in myself to root for criminals and lowlifes, so I'm out of these games. But I guess if the protagonist was a good guy, it wouldn't work.
Hype is off the charts!!! I really hope the PC wait is not long, otherwise I'll end up buying a PS5 to play it on launch.
Got music to look up now.
Yep, definitely looks like a GTA game which is good. I was worried they would tone everything down too much.
Thumbs up for Tom Petty.
Man I love the female NPC in the trailer . They look very different to previous GTA games
Looks fantastic, especially for a game that won't be releasing for what could be another year and a half if not more!
I don't think it has been in active development anywhere near that long, especially with so many of Rockstar's devs on RDR2 until 2018 (Rockstar has about 2000 devs and 1600 of them worked on RDR2, the remaining 400 would have been making GTA 5 Online content most likely). As I recall there was a leak that stated active development began in late 2019, so as a likely Q1 2025 release we are looking at like 5 and a half years of active development time.
entered development in 2014
That would be pre-production presumably. You can't really have GTA 6 in active development with 1600/2000 Rockstar devs on RDR2 until late 2018, and GTA Online also receiving new content from 2014-2018. Rockstar themselves confirmed 1600 of their devs worked on RDR2.
It's most likely Q1 2025, Take-Two is expecting big profits on this upcoming fiscal year which ends March 2025 for them.
It looks good, but looks last gen. This would have been great for ps4
Gotta be the guy who tells you to get your eyes checked.
You're telling me you're seing next gen visuals? Lol. Look at the breakdown. This is a game built up from last gen. Not that there is anything wrong, considering there are games on last gen systems that still rank amongst the best looking games of all time.
Last gen can't handle those graphics
This is all "In-Engine" and "Cinematic" stuff that can have everything baked, not representative of gameplay.
I did take a few notes of some discrepancies where the rendering fell over, such as with subsurface scattering of a few materials producing a very flat pastel look or where the volumetric's intersected the hair incorrectly and produced some shimmering artifacts.
It's still far to early to make any assertions on the complete technical underpinnings of the games foundations however.
But from just the lighting alone and some of the material shaders and alpha effects, if it's in real-time, would have been unachievable on the Xbox One and Playstation 4.
I've seen better lighting in tlou2 , or just as good. Can anyone confirm ray tracing is being used?
The Last of Us Part 2 if it had hardware based path tracing, would be a better looking game.
The Probe system/Lightmaps/Baked lighting/Global Illumination looks good in TLOU2, but is full of errors and inaccuracies... I.E. Interactive elements indoors are at a different brightness than it's surroundings.|
As for Ray Tracing... It's a technique games have been using for decades, with varying degrees of complexity.
I.E. Halo 4 on Xbox 360 used it for the subsurface scattering effects on skin with characters in cinematics.
So it goes without saying it's using Ray Tracing.. The real question is the type and complexity of Ray Tracing and whether it is hardware accelerated.
Digital foundry said it's probably using ray trace global illumination
I'm seeing pretty noticeable graphics improvements over Red Dead Redemption 2 running on last gen consoles personally. Character models look better (better skin, better hair, etc.), ground textures look better, lighting looks better, grass looks better (for instance compare the grass in the flamingo marsh shot with the grass in similar landscape shots in the RDR2 reveal trailer). This is among the best looking current gen games I have seen personally.
Models and skin texture detail isn't "next gen" . The overall image quality I looks like a slighly improved gta5, but made ground up for ps4. Models aren't as detailed as say tlou2, and considered the game is open world, this would make sense for a game built on last gen technology.
Characters look alot better then rdr 2. Not counting the world detail!. Tlou is a linear game!
Rdr2 was in early console development for ps4. I don't think it was maxing out the ps4's capabilities. There have been other games last gen with amaxing looking grass, but as to why gta6 could look better , rendering differences at play.
Rdr2 had large large vistas to render, and to look consistent. With a city in gta, it's divided by blocks , so while in a certain location, the amount to render isn't as vast, and so there should be more detail in smaller closed off sections.
That could be said for tlou2. It's a small linear game so you expect character rendering to be too notch and the same with environment. If you were to expand them to an open World, then it won't be as GD as rdr2
Which is excactly why I say gta6 looks like a game made for ps4 ground up. Considering tlou2 had better detailerd character models for a linear game, on same console.
No way you can get these Graphics with this level of density on PS4.
This was a cinematic , not gameplay trailer.
If gta5 was a ps3 game, what exactly would you expect from a game made ground up for ps4?
Had the same trailer came out 4 years ago, no body would be questioning the ps4's capabilities.
Rockstar games always end up looking as good if not better than the trailers. So I believe what we see in this trailer is very close to the actual game.
But we will know for sure when they inevitably do their gameplay trailer.
Rockstar ex Dev who worked on the game said it was cutscenes graphics
Come on , don't tell me you didn't get gta5 vibes when looking at the trailer. Remember gta5 on ps5 is not the same as how a gta would be made from$ the ground up on ps4. It's a ps3 game with better frame rates and minor visual enhancements. What you saw in gta6 is exactly what should be expected from a ps4 made game. Remember game engine upgrades going from ps3 to ps4 would be huge.
You wish PS4 can do those levels of detail. That trailer alone proves it can't be done in last gen consoles..it's alot better then rdr 2
Where did it say in the trailer gameplay running in real time? For all we know it could be in game cutscenes.
Tiny writing in the trailer. Ex rockstar Dev and digital foundry. Rockstar history of their final retail version always looking Better than the trailers
I was playing gta5 on ps5 today, scrolling on the beach. I noticed very similar looking faces of npcs on the boats that were on the trailer. Also the models of people walking on the beach, had the same butt physics bouncing.
U need glasses. Digital foundry said that everything in the trailer is a huge jump from GTA v.. plus we don't know how old is the trailer that they showed
Absolutely not. Gta 5 and Gta 6 are night and day difference in terms of graphics. The models, textures lighting are all better in 6. You definitely need glasses.
They're better, but only slighly. It's still on the same engine and when u pause it frame by frame, it looks like ps4 title mid way through the ps4 life cycle.
Load up gta 5 and walk along the beach, look at some og the beach goers up close as they walk. Look at the physics , body parts. I was equally impressed with one model I saw walking along . Mind you ps3 had 256 mb ram to work with. Ps4 has 16 times the ram, so what you see in the trailer is in line with what ps4 could produce on screen.
Even car models look as good as the sports cars. They've been a slight boost, and again the amount of cars on screen is what ps4 could have produced going from gta 5 on ps3 with such low ram count.
Building detail seemed on par. What was noticeable in trailer was the improved water physics, textures. Theu definitely put work in new tech in that area.
What idiot broke the embargo? They aren't getting any info anymore. Well, lets watch this. EDIT: Looks good. Not sure about the social media stuff shown as in game.
With a girl twerking on top of a car in the trailer, I'm thinking 2010's or 2020's. Pretty sure some of the cars in the trailer are based on 2010 or later models as well.
This thing will sell a lot of PS5 Pro consoles.
God I hate rockstar. Lets release a trailer for a 2025 launch..
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