Grand Theft Auto V is still one of the biggest games in the world, despite first releasing on the PlayStation 3 all the way back in 2013. To date, the release has shipped over 140 million units, and that number is only going to grow when Rockstar brings the title to the PS5 later this year. And speaking as part of a conference earlier this week, as transcribed by VGC, Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick has hinted that fans can expect more than just a “simple port”.
“We’ve done [remastering] differently to the competition – we don’t just port titles over, we actually take the time to do the very best job we can making the title different for the new release, for the new technology that we’re launching it on,” he explained. “So, we improve the technology, we upgrade the visuals, and we make performance enhancements. And that’s why I think our remastered titles typically do so well.”
One recent example is Mafia: Definitive Edition, which developer Hangar 13 rebuilt from the ground-up for PS4, as opposed to simply porting across the PS2 original. “GTA 5 was a standard-bearer when it was launched, it continued to be the standard-bearer in the second generation, we’ll see how Grand Theft Auto does in the next generation,” he continued. “Obviously, I’m confident that Rockstar is going to deliver just a great experience, but you can’t do that if you’re just doing a simple port.”
We already know that the next-gen version of GTA Online will feature content not available on last-gen platforms, and Rockstar has also hinted that its gameplay will be “more responsive”. Of course, you’ll be able to find that out for yourself, as the wildly popular multiplayer mode will be free for PS Plus subscribers to download at launch. What are you hopes for the PS5 version of GTA 5? Steal a car in the comments section below.
[source videogameschronicle.com]
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No thanks.
Give us a remake over GTA V. Even table tennis would be better
This is what I like to hear. Borderlands 3, Avengers, GTA5, and someday Cyberpunk free pa5 upgrades!
I'm done with gta. V was good, but not good enough to last 10 years. Online is still working at ps3 speeds so, i dont hold out much hope for improvements.
Let me know when VI is out.
It would be nice to see some improvements. I started the PS4 version a couple of weeks ago and it’s really quite noticeably dodgy compared to the PC version.
I hope Red Dead Redemption 2/Red Dead Online gets a PS5 upgrade. I want to play it looking even more stunninger.
I'm not buying this game a third time. No matter what.
I can't imagine them giving out the current gen upgrade to previous owners for free as that would be free copies to about half the planet's population more or less 🤷
I think the only way I'll double dip is if their implementation of the Dualsense blows Astrobot out of the water or at minimum matches it.
I'm not proud of myself but could definitely see me buying this. I would absolutely rather have a san andreas remake. I'm sure we will never see a gta remake of any kind because of licensing issues with music etc but I can dream!
So reading between the lines of it not being simply a standard remake.
GTA VI won’t release before 2025.
this is getting boring..tons of games upgrades but almost no new games that utilize or justify a next-gen console upgrade..i hope returnal doesn't flop..destruction allstars was half-baked..
Gotta keep milking the cash cow. If the multiplayer wasn't populated with dumb kids, angsty teens and angry adults we might have had story DLC or better yet, they could actually be working on GTA6.
You think they mean that NPC tech patent that was making the news a few weeks ago?
Meh, they won't fix the worst thing: the plot.
The last GTA games were GTA3 and SA. Sorry nothing will change my opinion. But hey I respect people who disagree
Gta 5 👑 the g.o.a.t word up son
I still haven’t purchased GTA V, on any console. Not many of us left now.
Just a reminder - GTA V had no mid-gen upgrades on Pro or 1X - no 4k, HDR or 60fps for starters - so there's a lot of room for improvement still from the PS4 and X1 versions.
I think people will pay, at least a 2nd time, for 4k, HDR and 60fps even if everything else was the same.
I'm curious if they'll split off GTA online and give that a separate trophy list, and keep this version with a strictly single player list. 🤔
I've already bought it 3 times, once on ps3 when it was new and twice on Ps4.
Does the PS4 version qualify for a free ps5 upgrade?
All right, I've been thinking, when life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager!
Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man whose gonna burn your house down - with the lemons!
My hope is an expanded single player story that includes all adds made on GTA online (island, vehicles, weapons, etc), crowded streets and more shops and buildings with open doors 🥳
Well, that's the reality of every new gen, 1st year of ports and cross-gen releases originally targetting the previous gen.
Honestly though, bots must be buying and playing GTA V at this point...
@Phelan What about IV though? I think IV has the best story and characters by far. It's my favourite GTA, followed by SA.
Excellent news. As good as the game currebtly is, it will be fun to go around the ridiculous open world in more than 20fps and with higher textures.
I’ve already completed the single player campaign twice - once on Xbox 360, and then again on PS4. I’ve never got into GTA Online. I’m sure it’ll look great, but I can’t see myself triple-dipping! The worst thing is, the longer R* are preoccupied with this the longer we have to wait for GTA 6 🙄
If they suck much more milk out of this cow, she'll turn inside-out. 🙄
No tapping X to run or having to press and hold L3. So many games do this better.
Dedicated PS5 servers with rebuilt online so that they don’t suck.
This is the only way I would be tempted to buy it. I don’t care for higher res or frames for this game.
On the 360/ps3 it was fun
On the ps4/xbo it was better. More populated npcs, first person view
On the ps5/xbsx vr?
I'm curious to see how much Rockstar will upgrade GTA V. I've never played it so if looks good enough maybe I'll give it a whirl.
There will need to be a significant amount of new content for the PS5 version to offer freshness for me. I have had GTA 5 since September 2013 and have the PS4 version. The PS4 version is basically 1080p instead of 720p and smoother more consistent 30fps with no significant added content.
Then too if the PS5 version turns out to be all that Stauss Zelnick says it will be there is still the issue of of having a PS5 to play it.
@JapaneseSonic people will 100% pay full price, and they know it.
@Nightcrawler71 I really don’t think that’s the case, as far as I know one of many teams works on the online component. I think people forget this is a company that makes more money off one game in a day than others can only dream of, they can easily handled GTA6 alongside other projects.
Good because the PS4 port was piece of hot garbage! was obvious that they didn't put much work into it and were just trying to get it working.
They better do good with this..
“We’ve done [remastering] differently to the competition – we don’t just port titles over"
My avatar shows this up as a blatant lie, I mean how many other remasters remakes do you want me to list? What a load of nonsense to even try to suggest they are unique in this.
As for GTAV itself I did buy it on both PS3 and PS4 but won't be buying it on PS5 as I have it on PC, so can already play it at high framerates and improved graphics. I will say that 60fps and beyond does wonders for this game and its controls. Overall though I'd much rather have a modern update for the three PS2 GTA games
I guess they must be making loads of money from the online bit of the game to be bothering doing all this. I just wish they spent all this time and effort on the next next-gen GTA really Anyway I have been playing RDR2(PS4) on my PS5 at the moment and its an AMAZING game It's like your playing a Film
Honestly tired of this game. They say that and it’ll get boring quickly then there’s the A holes with nothing better to do than blow anything up that moves with their weaponized vehicles
One of the few times I blame gamers tbh. GTA5 was #3 best selling game in the UK last year. 😕
@Amusei Not my cup of tea, but I definitely acknowledge that it's by far better. Still a fry cry from older titles though.
@Marios-love-child I'm still waiting for the free PS3 upgrade along with heists so I doubt it.
Campaign was really good..online just irritatingly tedious..hacker central,toxic children and adults..laggy servers and takes a stupidly long time to load..yeah its great having regular content but if rockstar cant be bothered to impliment some kind of anti cheat system and plough some of the millions they have made into a proper dedicated server setup why should i bother with it anymore? The online part will be free but not free of the idiots that populate it..
I guess polishing up games that most people who care about have already put 100+ hours into, is all the new rage. Seems like a GTA VI would sell a heckuva lot better but who can blame them for trying to get people to pay three or four times for basically the same game. We're the chumps that keep falling for it.
Just make some new games already.
Completely absurd. I could understand releasing after GTA 6, but this is just nonsense.
soooo is this going to be the first Playstation game to be available across 3 consoles?
Ports? Remakes? Remasters? Yawn.
Just release GTA6 ffs. GTAV was released in September 2013 !
This BS is just their excuse because they’ll make us double dip if we want upgraded versions of GTAV or RDR2. Hard pass
so tired of GTA5, old news lets move forward
No matter what they do the character control will still be like a PS1 Resident Evil game. I have no idea how R* get away with it.
They make some of the best worlds in all of gaming but every game they ever made has absolutely piss poor character control.
No thanks. This is still a cash grab! Game is nearly a decade old.
Did Zelnick just say their remasters are different than competitors because they remaster theirs? Other than Nintendo and Sqeenix, who else does he mean that just ports and calls it a day?
Why can't this game just die? It's ancient. How does it still live? Can we just confirm gtav as a launch window game for PS9 and move on? At this point gtav is a sure bet for Vita 3.
@ApostateMage But can they make the controls
function intuitively? If nintendo can make skyward sword and the Fludd function properly after 10, 20 years, surely rockstar can make arthur not randomly shoot people and go to prison every time I try to talk to someone...
It's the pc version with mods that's all it will be the only way they could make it begged is if they upgraded the engine in it as it's old and on pc broken because the in game anti aliasing doesn't even work if you enable MSSA X2 it cripples GPUs as it's a serious resource hog
@Phelan... 100% correct, the Original GT3 and GTA San Andreas where the last GTAs where Rockstar focused on the plot, the rest of the time they have been busy with attention to detail of the world's which is amazing from GTA4 and its DLCs to Gta 5.
But now we need GTA to go beyond and top the plot of both Gta3 and GTA San Andreas............ I loved how the world was tied to the plot in San Andreas and absolutely love the 3 massive districs the world was slit to........ I want GTA to match the top the super big world of San Andreas and also to bring back the RPG elements (your physicality and health being affected by what you do in the world like in San Andreas) and open up the real estate so we can buy more house and be able to own more business and have more activities and this must be on the offline version instead of locking this in GTA online, they can do other things for the new GTA online
@Vladspartan.... Man this is the comment of the day.
Dam give life its God damn lemons back
@Amusei... Oh GTA 4 has the best Rain effects in the entire series....... In terms of story I like the Ballad of Gay Tony better than Niko's Story.
I really wish Rockstar worud make a mainline story involving Gay Tony or another Gay Gangster or gay Gang linked ganstar/protagonist or even continue the Gay Tony storyline.... ... It just adds a whole twist to the whole violence going on in the game.......
In fact I would like a protagonist who is gay or lgbt+, it would just add flavor and a twist to the whole madness of the GTA universe
@NEStalgia Never mix up your howdy button with your holster button, especially in town.
I actually prefer Rockstar's weighty physics over many other games' floaty light control systems. That poor x button though.
Yeah....Mafia 2 remastered says hello Mr Zelnick...
Honestly at this point i am so sick of hearing about GTA 5. I remember being so excited for its release (on PS3), but now it just represents everything that has gone wrong at Rockstar over the past decade. To think they were my favourite developer on PS2 and up there with the best on PS3.
Needless to say ive no intention of picking this up on PS5
@smythelove I did not hear one thing about it being free.
No thanks. Not that I have a PS5 yet. I bought GTAV on PS4, and quickly lost interest in the story mode, and as for online, it’s full of people that have been downtrodden in real life, and have to take out their misery on people online.
@GREGORIAN "open up the real estate so we can buy more house and be able to own more business and have more activities" yeah exactly, I would love it if GTA was more up to current standards. I mean MC who is not exactly just a brainless thugh who happens to be where the stuff is happening, imagine someone more of a white-collar who knows how to steal cars but also how to sell those cars on the market, who knows how to cook the books. Instead of just avoiding police, having to avoid tax office. Learning how to invest money. I mean sure he can be a part of a larger scheme to catch some ruthless mafia boss, but please no more from zero to hero c***. A breed between saints row and GTA, with teammates who can die just like in Suikoden locking you out of some of the actions and endings. Right now GTA5 and GTA4 for me is just a pew pew simulator, I grew out of it, not to mention that for me GTA1 & 2 are still more fun to play.
@tselliot I can understand a Remake but 3 times is overdoing it. And if people are paying full price for it their full of it when they complain about a new €70 game. 🤪
I played it on PS3 and PS4, but I won't be doing another run through, and Online is just dull and flat unless you like to get randomly blown up by kids, but they probably aren't targeting me. I'll wait for GTA 6, single player..
When some guy releases a free fix for GTA Online that works better then what the actual company made LOL
@carlos82 RE2 was a remake, though, not a remaster. He's right that remasters are usually just ports but running at a higher res. Though there are some exceptions of remasters with more effort put in, like SotC and the Uncharted Collection. But obviously an actual remake, like RE2 and FFVII, will be significantly different because, well, it's been totally remade.
@NEStalgia The launch title of the Switch 2 will be GTAV Kart 8 Deluxe: Skyrim
@Matroska arguing between remakes and remasters is an exercise in futility as many blur the lines between the 2 but the end result it that Take Two aren't unique in this. There are countless games across many systems and dating back many years which have all done the same to varying degrees, sometimes on the same system they first released on, even the article uses Mafia as an example which is a remake. Of course there are plenty of relatively basic ports too, but when the likes of Mario All Stars basically did this nearly 30 years ago (Atari probably have multiple examples between the 2600, 5200 and 7800) its a bit rich these guys claiming its just them who do it
@GREGORIAN I wouldn't mind that. I'm down for a psychotic lesbian femme fatale any day. 😹😹😹
@Phelan Fair enough.
Yawn......GTA VI??? Anyone.....Anyone....
After completing GTA V several times. Playing the online for close to 300 hrs. No amount of upgrades, graphical enhancements, higher frame rates could make me play this again. Let alone paying 500 quid plus another £70 for this version, which I've already bought twice on 7th and 8th gen consoles.
@Boxmonkey Have to agree. The fact they are releasing the game across THREE generations of consoles, really shows they're milking this cash cow for all it's worth.
@JJ2 I'll admit, I did buy the game again on 8th gen systems. But thankfully, I never spent a penny on any of their online "Sharkcards" and will not be buying the game again on 9th gen.
Ffs Really. I'm sick to death of this now it's getting ridiculous. IT'S A BLOODY PS3 GAME. Move on already.
I'd prefer a remake of GTA2 just to show CDPR how to do a proper open world cyberpunk crime game.
@Stocksy That was such an awesome game
@NEStalgia yeah this game was already old and behind the curve when it came out, let alone 8 years later.
I really wonder if people never played a game with good controls, cause I sure can't get back to GTAV after playing other games that controls, y'know, as they should.
@ApostateMage I could be fine with the X button if the "howdy" button didn't involve L2 - the universal "point a gun at someones head" button for 20+ years.... I don't know who decided that the proper way to interact with everything in the game is to AIM at it, while also mapping the interact/jump button to "draw weapon." It's like making a shooter where R2 puts your gun away.... I want to get into that game, and every single time I pick it up I blow someone in town away and owe money. And you can't reload a previous save... I can forgive Arthur moving like PS1 tank controls if it were not for that....
@Grumblevolcano Don't be silly, Zelnick will tell us that Switch 2 can't run GTAV. But we'll get Trevor for Smash Ultimate: Switch 2 Edition ($69.99 + 2 season passes) because Nintendo likes to watch the world burn. But Trevor will have a new hair style. Inexplicably, he'll also be a sword fighter.
I know a lot of people love this game, but I would much prefer a RDR remake/RDR2 remaster combo. I just want to play those back to back on modern hardware.
I mean that’s cool and all but why remake and old game that will cost maybe 1/2 the price of making a new one? GTA V remastered won’t sell nearly as well as GTA VI. GTA VI would could probably sell 100M in its first year.
“ So, we improve the technology, we upgrade the visuals, and we make performance enhancements.”
Waow, really, how revolutionary...
I can easily imagine a R* poll having the same results as i read here. That is that an all new game, GTA Six, made only for current gen is what most desire instead of any form of remaster or remake of GTA 5. Also that desire is not new news.
Remakes of GTA 3 or Vice City remade like the original PS2 Mafia game was remade would be nice but an all new story and location is what i want. However a Vice City remake that includes new locations would work. New locations like small towns, country, and islands.
I can understand a small company would release a remake but this is the 3rd remaster /remake show me a new one something like Vice City or a new Manhunt.
This is really poor from Rockstar. But until GTA V stops haunting the top 10 charts worldwide, there's no incentive for them to do anything new or exciting. If that game stopped selling big numbers 5 years ago (as it should have) we wouldn't have a PS5 re-remaster. We'd probably have GTA VI.
Must be why this port is taking so long. To tell you the truth, unless the remaster is locked at 60fps and include the RDR2 engine at 4K, I don't think I will be buying it. The PS4 version didn't do anything to the visuals and performance aside upping the resolution to 1080p (and the difference was so little that it was not worth the price they asked for). It was exactly the same game, but playable on new gen. First person mode was also unnecessary imo.
why not GTA 6 instead so they can move on and we can move on
I’m definitely going to buy it! I just got ps5 and gta 5 ps4 edition doesn’t work so I hope it comes out soon👍
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