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videotechUK has chimed in on an interesting discussion about Grand Theft Auto 6’s technical performance.
videotechUK said this in a conversation on Twitter about performance:
I have a personal feeling it will be 30fps only as next-gen is only a year out by the time the game comes out. It’d be best to keep 60fps as a selling point for PS6 and whatever the next Xbox is.
There Was Talk Of 60 FPS On The PlayStation 5 Pro
As recently as last September, there were rumors that developers were successfully running Grand Theft Auto 6 at 60 FPS on the PlayStation 5 Pro. Sony is working directly with Rockstar so that it can hit these performance goals.
…But There’s More Talk Of 30 FPS On All Consoles
That rumor does run headlong into developers who actually worked at Rockstar who say otherwise.
Former Rockstar North technical director Obbe Vermeij argued that fans will want to play the game at 30 FPS instead of 60 FPS. That’s based on the assumption that Rockstar players are more likely to look for a visual showcase than a competitive experience.
And obviously, Grand Theft Auto 6 is not Call of Duty or Valorant in this regard. Grand Theft Auto players are more likely to complain if they see their character clipping than if the bullet they shot registered at the proper framerate to kill an enemy by a few milliseconds faster.
Rockstar gamers talk about how great the game looks, and that’s what Rockstar focuses on. While younger fans are used to this idea that higher framerate automatically means better graphics, Rockstar makes such rich worlds that they debunk that notion.
Another former Rockstar developer talked to Reece “Kiwi Talkz” Reilly. Animator Mike York said this in a Kiwi Talkz podcast:
I don’t know if they’ll be able to pull off 60fps. I don’t think so. I think they’re gonna be shooting for 30fps – and a locked 30fps, meaning it never dips below that.
They’re gonna try to optimize as much as they can to where it never goes below 30. But it can be bumped up to 40, 41, 52, whatever, and I bet you, like, later, once it’s on PC, it’ll probably get super optimized and changed and new graphics cards that come out and you’ll be able to run it at 60fps probably at that time.
Detective Seeds’ rumor may be pointing to something, but what this may amount to is what every console game has been getting lately; performance and graphics modes. And Vermeij may be vindicated when the fans realize they would rather play in a prettier Leonida.
