Will GTA 6 Look Even Better on PS5 Pro? Experts Give Their Verdict

Did you ticker the caller GTA 6 trailer and think, ‘Wow, the bubbles wrong that vessel of brew look really, really good?’ You’re not alone. Hundreds of millions of viewers person present watched the 2nd Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer and marveled astatine the method brilliance connected display. And knowing that the trailer footage was each captured connected PS5 is conscionable mind-blowing. But are we being acceptable up to beryllium fooled?

IGN spoke to Digital Foundry’s Alexander Battaglia to assistance interruption down what we saw and recognize whether determination are immoderate takeaways we tin glean from the newest GTA 6 trailer and however it mightiness construe into existent gameplay acquisition connected console. And it turns out, we can.

“The trailer is moving astatine 30 fps and is wholly made up of — presumably — real-time cutscenes and not gameplay — hence the achromatic bars connected the apical and bottommost of the screen,” Battaglia says. “I ideate the game’s superior people for specified cutscenes is 30 fps, and it’s apt the aforesaid for gameplay.”

30 fps connected PS5 and Xbox Series X is thing new. Games often travel with either a fidelity mode, which prioritizes up to 4K solution astatine 30 fps, oregon a show mode, which targets 60 fps astatine little resolution. But with the motorboat of the PS5 Pro, Sony has made efforts to span the 2 modes, and it’s thing Battaglia says we’ll apt spot pushed person to the game’s release.

“Given the representation prime successful the trailer, which whitethorn good beryllium a usage of FSR1 (AMD’s AI show enhancing instrumentality and the ground of PS5 Pro’s PSSR) from a debased interior resolution, PS5 Pro could heighten representation prime done the usage of PSSR making a little aliased, much elaborate representation with little blur.”

Personally speaking, I thin to ever opt for show mode implicit fidelity mode, but 1 of the cardinal selling points for PS5 Pro is that you don’t person to marque that choice, you tin person both. So portion Digital Foundry thinks PS5 Pro tin amended representation quality, the large question is: Will GTA 6 tally astatine 60 fps connected console?

On the Digital Foundry tech breakdown posted connected YouTube, the sheet seems to hold that GTA 6 volition not beryllium capable to deed 60 fps connected console. “As soon arsenic you person RTGI [Ray Traced Global Illumination], a monolithic unfastened world, those things thin not to tally good astatine 60 fps… I deliberation everything points to this being a 30 fps game, possibly with a 40 fps mode connected immoderate [consoles].”

At the bosom of the substance is ray tracing, which Digital Foundry says seems integral to GTA 6, not conscionable from a tech position but an creator one. “You can’t get escaped of RTGI. It’s inherent to the mode the crippled works. And they’re passim the trailer, truthful they evidently made them a portion of the gameplay.”

Leonida, Rockstar’s mentation of the Sunshine State, is afloat of light. Whether it’s from the prima itself beaming connected agleam beaches and suntanned bodies, oregon the neon lights illuminating Vice City’s nightlife, ray tracing feels halfway to GTA 6’s creation direction, and besides wherefore it apt won’t tally higher than 30 fps. It could besides beryllium wherever PS5 Pro players find the astir joyousness implicit their PS5 and Xbox Series X counterparts: “The trailer uses ray tracing extensively, which could beryllium further enhanced connected PS5 Pro,” Battaglia says.

While the ray tracing improvements connected PS5 Pro are speculative, you lone person to comparison the caller GTA 6 trailer with the archetypal 1 to spot that Rockstar is hammering the value of RTGI to the look of GTA 6. “Real-time ray-traced transparency reflections are overmuch much evident successful this trailer, truthful solid connected brew bottles, cars’ windscreens, gathering windows, and much look peculiarly good.” The bubbly brew that hundreds of millions of GTA fans are obsessing implicit is wherefore GTA 6 mightiness not tally astatine 60 fps, but besides wherefore GTA 6 mightiness look adjacent amended connected PS5 Pro.

While 30 fps seems to beryllium the default crossed consoles, PS5 Pro’s amended ray tracing capabilities mean this cardinal GTA 6 diagnostic should get a amended showcase connected Sony’s much almighty console. To date, the improvements PS5 Pro offers implicit the basal console varies wildly from 1 crippled to the next, with Assassin’s Creed Shadows presently the champion showcase for what the console tin do. But I’m hoping Rockstar and GTA 6 instrumentality it a measurement further and marque the quality adjacent much noticeable.

At the other extremity of the powerhouse standard is the Xbox Series S, which is presently the weakest console that tin play GTA 6 (there’s nary connection yet connected whether Rockstar volition bring GTA 6 to Switch 2). Digital Foundry says that to get GTA 6 connected the Series S, Rockstar whitethorn request to sacrifice ray tracing wholly to tally the crippled astatine 30 fps, with sub-1080p resolution. But the Series S inactive has the aforesaid ballpark CPU powerfulness and retention arsenic Series X, truthful it’s not impossible.

There’s inactive a full twelvemonth until GTA 6 hits shelves (sadly), and with lone 2 trailers released truthful far, determination are inactive a batch of chartless variables. But adjacent the changes from the archetypal GTA 6 trailer to the newest 1 reveals loads of absorbing method details, from a changeless 30 fps captured connected PS5 to the improved ray tracing. And with past telling america that Rockstar typically lone releases 30 fps GTA games, each signs are pointing to the aforesaid for GTA 6 – though if the trailers are thing to spell by, the bid has ne'er looked better.