GTA 6 May Already Be Making A Big Xbox Mistake

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has finally been announced for a 2025 release, but that could be a problem for Xbox. The first trailer for , a 90-second teaser featuring a quick peek at its story and setting, dropped a day early on December 4, 2023, after a leak saw it plastered across social media a day before its intended release. It at once confirmed and debunked many of the rumors that have been stewing about the upcoming game for the past decade, and even set a tentative window for its launch.

However, it's a broad one: won't be out until 2025, and just what part of 2025 remains to be seen. Judging by rumors about when the PS6 might be released, that'll probably be pretty late in the current console generation's life cycle. That sounds pretty similar to the strategy followed by, which came to the seventh console generation on September 17, 2013, just two months shy of the PS4 and Xbox One's release dates in November of that year. Here's why that could be a problem for .

Thanks to its generally lower specs and performance issues with some more demanding games, the Xbox Series S might not be able to handle . Xbox is the only console of the current generation to have two different models of massively different technical profiles: the Series X and the Series S.

There may be four different models of the PS5: two launch versions, one with a disk drive and one without, and two Slim versions along the same lines. But aside from the drive, all four models are pretty much the same internally, and as a result, it's rare for one to have performance issues the other doesn't. The Xbox Series X and S work differently, with the S having significantly lower specs as outlined below:

Xbox Series X

Xbox Series S

12 Teraflops processing power

4 Teraflops processing