Grand Theft Auto 5’s “expansion and enhancement” will launch on next-gen consoles in the second half of 2021. Rockstar Games announced Thursday. The news came at Sony’s Future of Gaming event, confirming the game will launch on PlayStation 5.
As expected, GTA 5 will also be available on Xbox Series X, but Rockstar did not specifically mention the name of Microsoft’s console, but only said that “the adventures of Michael, Franklin and Trevor will be on the next generation consoles new”.
Rockstar also announced plans to launch Grand Theft Auto Online, the popular online part of GTA 5, as a standalone game “in the second half of 2021”. For the first three months of launch, the game “will be free exclusively for PlayStation 5 players”. That suggests the standalone will also be sold later.
It is currently unclear what this “expand and upgrade” content for GTA 5 will include. Rockstar said the game will “significantly improve on the technical side, upgrade the graphics and performance to take full advantage of the hardware power of the new console, making the game beautiful and play more responsive than ever”.
Additionally, Rockstar announced a bonus for PlayStation Plus subscribers in PlayStation 4’s GTA Online: $1 million in GTA$ per month when they log into the game from here until GTA Online launches on PS5.
Grand Theft Auto 5 is one of the most popular games of all time, with over 130 million copies sold as of May. In May, Rockstar and Epic Games gave away the 6-year-old game for free for a week. The offer was so enticing that it rendered the Epic Games Store, which gave away the game, inaccessible for several hours.
Both PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X are scheduled to launch this Christmas.
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