GTA 6 PS5-exclusive options detailed, PS5 Professional enhanced confirmed

Sony and Rockstar Video games say that Grand Theft Auto 6 “performs finest on PS5,” mentioning a number of distinctive options of the PlayStation 5 {hardware} that the sport will reap the benefits of, and which will not be out there to Xbox Collection X gamers.

A PlayStation Weblog put up co-signed by Rockstar and Mary Yee, a Sony advertising exec, pronounces that GTA 6 will make use of the DualSense controller’s built-in speaker, haptic suggestions (superior vibration, mainly), and adaptive triggers that present dynamic resistance in line with the exercise. GTA 6 may also help the PS5’s Tempest 3D audio and use the console’s ultra-fast SSD exhausting drive to make load instances “near-instant.”

If all this seems like advertising strains you have not heard for the reason that PS5 launched over 5 years in the past, that is not a coincidence. Sony and Rockstar have a advertising partnership for GTA 6, and Sony is hoping the sport’s arrival will lastly persuade gamers nonetheless utilizing the PlayStation 4 — on which you’ll nonetheless play Grand Theft Auto On-line and Grand Theft Auto 5, in addition to Fortnite and Minecraft — to improve. If there’s a possibility for Sony to place additional clear water between PS5 and Xbox Collection X because it does so, a lot the higher (for Sony).

“For brand new gamers who wish to soar in, it’s an amazing likelihood to additionally see why PS5 is the very best place to play,” Yee stated within the put up. “Gamers can decide up a PS5 or PS5 Professional at direct.ps.com (the place out there) and at native retailers.”

Nevertheless, the weblog put up makes no different point out of PS5 Professional, and any enhancements that the extra highly effective console may carry to GTA 6. That is odd, since if GTA 6 is a golden alternative to steer PS4 homeowners to improve to PS5, it is also a very good alternative to steer PS5 homeowners to improve to PS5 Professional. And there is no Xbox equal to the Professional, so it should undoubtedly current probably the most high-fidelity GTA 6 expertise out there, a minimum of till a PC model launches.

GTA 6’s PlayStation Retailer web page does be aware that the sport will likely be “PS5 Professional Enhanced,” that means that it’s going to get an official patch to unlock its efficiency potential on the Professional. However there is no info on what the enhancements are — whether or not the sport will run at a better body price, decision, or each.

Sony has missed a possibility to make the case for the PS5 Professional right here. This might be as a result of it does not need to muddy its “please improve to PS5” messaging with a gross sales pitch for a $900 premium console. Or, extra seemingly, it might be as a result of Rockstar continues to be busy optimizing the sport for all platforms, and hasn’t discovered its ultimate efficiency stage but.

With no PC model, and Xbox far behind in console gross sales this era, Sony is treating GTA 6 like a PS5 unique. We obtained our first indication of that right now. Whether or not it should lengthen this push to an try to resuscitate PS5 Professional’s fortunes stays an open query.