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 CEO Strauss Zelnick answered several questions about GTA 6.
He reconfirmed that GTA VI will launch in Fall 2025 for now and that they will not release GTA VI and Borderlands 4 close together. However, the most interesting response gave us insight into how Rockstar and Take-Two view GTA 6 on Microsoft’s budget-friendly current console.
What’s up with Xbox Series S
As we know, all games that launch for Xbox Series consoles must release on both X and S devices. Although similarly specced, the cheaper model has cuts in a few areas that limit things like resolution and frame rate in many games.
Although people who buy the Xbox Series S mostly don’t care that it doesn’t run games at 4K with ray tracing, it’s harder to develop games for. This is due to less RAM, lower bandwidth speed and GPU clock. Some game developers have criticized it while others have no problem with it.
Given what we saw of GTA VI in its first trailer last year, many fans were worried about how the game would look and run on Series S. The game seems to be pushing graphical and gameplay boundaries like we’ve never seen before. There are much 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 more than 6 years ago on Xbox One and PS4 is nothing short of incredible. The game is still better than many titles released nowadays. The artists and engineers are some of the best around.
Nothing to worry about
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick knows this too. When asked about how Xbox Series S might be “harder to execute on some of the things (Rockstar) … want to do,” Zelnick said he’s not worried.
the boss said “We support the platforms where the consumers are as long as they are there, and we find a way to support platforms despite different levels of technology. Our labels are really good at that. I’m not really worried. I’ve never worried about where hardware goes. And I’ve said that many times over the years because, first of all, I don’t care about things I have zero control over. And secondly because I do believe in the public. The audience will come if you have great features, and so we just have to make sure to be on a range 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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