When you personal a digital copy of Grand Theft Auto V on Xbox One or any form of copy on PS4, you may be entitled to a free improve to the current-gen variations of the sport beginning tomorrow, June 18.
Rockstar Video games introduced the upgrades whereas detailing GTA On-line’s subsequent huge replace, which arrives in July. Rockstar specified that these upgrades will apply to the digital model on Xbox One and to any copy on PS4, which appears to embrace bodily copies as nicely. Presumably, this can solely apply inside platform households (PS4 to PS5, for instance). As has been the case for years, you may additionally have the ability to migrate all your progress over, making certain all the pieces you have earned transfers with you.
At present, GTA 5 prices $39.99 on current-gen platforms, so it is a steal. If you have not been involved in double (or triple!) dipping on GTA 5, Rockstar is making issues straightforward on you. The present-gen variations of GTA 5 have been out there since March 2022, and whereas it is not a wildly dramatic leap from last-gen, it does present a a lot smoother expertise thanks to issues like 60 FPS.
Though that is partly to get folks within the upcoming replace, which can revolve round yet one more heist, there may be one other huge motive: GTA 6 is lastly popping out this November, which suggests gross sales for the juggernaut title will doubtless start to soften a bit over the following few months as followers put together for what’s subsequent. It is sensible to give GTA 5 one final huge push earlier than it’s inevitably despatched out with a bang.
As of proper now, Rockstar has but to launch any particulars about GTA 6’s on-line mode, so it is exhausting to say if any of your progress will carry over. Given that individuals have spent 13 years constructing a life in GTA On-line, some followers are hoping they’re going to get to convey some goodies with them to Vice Metropolis, but it surely would not be stunning if everybody acquired a contemporary begin when the mode drops.
Followers are at present ready with bated breath for the following have a look at GTA 6, which is anticipated to arrive this summer time. It would not be stunning if Rockstar waits till after the discharge of this new replace in July, so it would not distract anybody from the brand new content material it is making an attempt to push to followers.
Cade Onder is a freelancer for IGN’s information crew. He covers all issues leisure, together with gaming, movie, and extra. Yow will discover him on Twitter @Cade_Onder.
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