Will GTA 6 be on PC?

It's not looking too good.

People on fast boats speed past the Vice City dock in GTA 6.
Screenshot by Dot Esports via Rockstar Games

Grand Theft Auto 6 hype is now in overdrive thanks to the game’s first trailer arriving online. One of the questions that has followed is whether or not GTA 6 will be available on PC.

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Rockstar Games had a certain way of doing things back when it was developing GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 in the past decade, so to have a better understanding of what’s happening with GTA 6 in the future, our best bet is checking what Rockstar did in the past.

Will GTA 6 be on PC?

A girl without a seatbelt dances in a car on a highway in Vice City in GTA 6.
It’s bad news for PC gamers. Screenshot by Dot Esports via Rockstar Games

We now have confirmation GTA 6 won’t be coming to PC on launch. It will only be available on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series.

Though it might be disappointing having to wait for GTA 6 longer than you already did if you’re a PC gamer, this process ensures the PC port is well-optimized and players avoid any nasty performance bugs in the computer version.

Historically, Rockstar doesn’t release its games for PC and console simultaneously, so the delay here was to be expected. The developer, for example, first released GTA 5 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in September 2013 and only released a PC version in April 2015—after the game had already been ported to PS4 and Xbox One. Years later, Rockstar used the same strategy for Red Dead Redemption 2 when the game first came to PS4 and Xbox One in October 2018 and only arrived for PC in November 2019.

It’s a sad reality for those who were eager to put GTA 6 to the test on their powerful gaming rigs, but the silver lining is one day it will be possible. That just won’t be in 2025.

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Leonardo Biazzi
Staff writer and CS:GO lead. Leonardo has been passionate about games since he was a kid and graduated in Journalism in 2018. Before Leonardo joined Dot Esports in 2019, he worked for Brazilian outlet Globo Esporte. Leonardo also worked for HLTV.org between 2020 and 2021 as a senior writer, until he returned to Dot Esports and became part of the staff team.
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Ryan Galloway
Ryan is a Senior Staff Writer for Dot Esports who has been working at GAMURS since 2020. He covers a wide variety of titles from across the gaming space, with a focus on Pokémon. He boasts a degree in Journalism from Murdoch University. Email: ryan@dotesports.com