Another delay has been announced, will it be worth the extra wait?
GTA V for the most part is a great game and has already been played over two generations of consoles. Already available on PS3 and PS4 (also available on Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series S, and X and PC), Rockstar has done what they do best and actually listened to their players.
We will still be getting a PS5 upgrade for Grand Theft Auto 5 but not on the original date that was first announced – 11 November 2021. The new release date has been delayed to March 2022, which in all honesty isn’t that bad of a delay.
According to the official website, the reasoning behind this is for some additional “polishing and fine-tuning” as they are really focusing on giving us the smoothest experience that they can; making sure that our revisit to Los Santos will keep us just as engaged as it did the very first time in 2013. This includes faster loading times, “seamless character switching”, as well as other performance-, technical- and visual enhancements. GTA V Online will also be released as a standalone version.
There hasn’t been any official confirmations just yet, but according to German PlayStation Blog, you should be able to play in 4K/60fps at a minimum on PS5. On the upside, thanks to the backwards compatibility of the PS5 you can still get a taste of GTA V on your new-gen console, however, it will obviously not boast any actual PS5 features just yet.
However, thanks to whispers from an insider (Tez2 on Twitter) who has been pretty spot-on with almost every other prediction, specifically based on GTA; we could be looking at getting a RAGE developed remaster – the very same Rockstar Advanced Game Engine that the infamous Red Dead Redemption 2 uses – instead of just a revamped version of the original engine.
“Found out new structs that were added with the recent update relating to the standalone version and one of them is “rage::fwuiMessageBase”, which is from RDR2’s RAGE version, so that seems to go along what @Spider-Vice & @uNi stated, that the enhanced edition is likely to utilize RDR2’s RAGE version. However, it could just be that the UI would utilize RDR2’s base code, while the rest remains the same.” – wrote Tez2 In a reply on the GTAForums
Of course with being a PS owner you will also have the pleasure of getting a hint of favouritism in anticipation of the 2022 launch. Rockstar are gifting existing and new PlayStation Plus members GTA-$1 000 000 each month (claimed from the PS Store every month for the PS4 version of GTA V Online) until the 2022 PS5 release as well as a few additional bonuses. GTA V Online for PS5 will also be free to claim for the first three months after the March 2022 launch and will not require GTA V to play.
If anything, the release of another remaster for the game will keep players busy for a while until the even more highly anticipated GTA VI is released (with the high possibility of GTA’s first female protagonist); which will likely only be happening around mid-to-late 2023 at this point.
Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online – PlayStation Showcase 2021 Trailer | PS5
The new-gen GTA V (as well as GTA V Online) will be released for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X & Series S.