GTA 6 comes to Xbox One: via the cloud

GTA VI can be played on Xbox One consoles with Xbox Cloud Gaming; Rockstar Games announced and the game is coming out next week. Thus, players with old generation consoles will be able to enter the game without purchasing new hardware. However, cloud support does not extend to Xbox's usual PC, web and TV options.

GTA VI cloud limit for Xbox One

Xbox Cloud Gaming normally works on consoles as well as PCs, web browser, and televisions. The situation is different for GTA VI. Streaming is limited to Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One consoles only. Therefore, the player with an old Xbox One will be able to play the game via streaming without having to buy a PS5 or Xbox Series S / X.

In cloud gaming, the game runs on a remote server and the image is broadcast to the console. According to Rockstar, the cloud version will stream to consoles using Xbox Series S graphics settings. Therefore, GTA VI will appear on Xbox One with Series S settings. It is unclear whether Microsoft will make it available for streaming when the PC version comes out. This is only being talked about as a possibility.

exclusivity debate

Last month, it was reported that Microsoft had acquired private cloud streaming rights for GTA VI. On the other hand, Xbox strategy officer Matthew Ball said that the game in X will not be published only on Microsoft's cloud. Even if the contract does not say "exclusive", the result is the same for now: cloud gaming is only available on Xbox.

Sony may announce its own cloud plan in the future. However, Rockstar stated that the game will fully support Remote Play on PlayStation and Xbox. But Remote Play mirrors the game on the console to another screen. So it doesn't count as cloud flow.

30 FPS on consoles

Rockstar also confirmed that the game will run at 30 FPS on PS5, PS5 Pro and Xbox Series S/X consoles. FPS is the number of frames displayed per second on the screen. The prominent advantage of PS5 Pro is ray traced shadows and PSSR support. PSSR is PlayStation's upscaling technology that moves the image to higher resolution.