Fans shocked to discover GTA 6 is playable on Xbox One

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If you haven't yet upgraded to a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X/S, Microsoft is offering a way to play GTA 6 on old hardware.

If you haven’t yet upgraded to a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X/S, Microsoft is offering a way to play GTA 6 on old hardware.

GTA 6 is launching across PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on November 19, but you can play it without either console if you own an Xbox One.

As confirmed by Microsoft, GTA 6 will be available to stream via Xbox Cloud Gaming at launch, on both Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One. While playing it natively on Xbox Series X/S will naturally offer the highest quality experience, cloud streaming through Xbox One is the only option available (until the inevitable PC version) if you’re trying to avoid buying a pricey new current gen console.

It remains to be seen how well GTA 6 will run on Xbox One (the game uses Xbox Series S graphics settings when cloud streaming) but to some fans, the news was a positive surprise.

‘Xbox One is coming out of retirement,’ one user wrote on X. Another added: ‘This is such a huge win for people who couldn’t afford the new console.’

However, not everyone is sold on cloud gaming’s capabilities. ‘Streaming GTA 6 on an Xbox One is the most optimistic sentence Microsoft has ever published,’ another added.

Crucially, while you can stream GTA 6 across Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One, Microsoft is limiting it to consoles. Usually, titles that support Xbox Cloud Gaming can be played on PC and other devices, including the ROG Xbox Ally, but that isn’t the case here.

As announced in an Xbox Wire blog post, more games by Rockstar are coming to Xbox Cloud Gaming in ‘the coming months’, including GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2.

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has described this Xbox Cloud Gaming deal as ‘the first step in our new 10-year strategic partnership with Take-Two’, although it’s unclear if this partnership goes beyond streaming games.

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