GTA 6 is out on 19 November. This week Sony and Rockstar put several things on the record for the first time: a pre-order ranking, a frame rate target, what PS5 Pro adds, and how the PS5 launch rolls out. Rockstar also announced a launch festival in Miami. Away from Vice City, Bethesda ruled out new details on The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel, and Blizzard changed quest gold in WoW Forever.
Sony says GTA 6 is the most pre-ordered game in PlayStation Store history
Sony said so on the PlayStation Blog on 10 November and gave no number. IGN reports that Microsoft has said the same of its own store; we have not read Microsoft’s post. Take-Two gave no figure on its 9 November earnings call either. The only count in circulation is Sensor Tower’s estimate, 10.31 million copies as reported on 11 November, and it is a model, not a sales total.
Rockstar is targeting 30 frames per second on both consoles
Rockstar’s Newswire post of 10 November says the game is “targeting 30 frames per second” on current consoles. In August, Flow Games was told the same; this is the first time Rockstar has said it. On PS5 Pro the game adds PSSR upscaling and ray-traced shadows. It will also stream through Xbox Cloud Gaming on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One consoles at Series S graphics settings, and it supports Remote Play on PlayStation and Xbox. Xbox said in October that the game will not stream to PC.
The PS5 launch is at midnight in each country, starting with New Zealand
Sony says the launch rolls out by country as each reaches midnight on 19 November, beginning at 12:00 a.m. NZDT. Rockstar has not published its own table of unlock times. Our pre-load and launch timing page has what we saw when the pre-load opened on 10 November.
GTA VI: The Festival is in Miami on 21 November
Rockstar announced the launch event on 9 November. It is at Mana Wynwood, presented with PlayStation, with two stages and artists from the game and its soundtrack, including Travis Scott, Cardi B, Justice and Metro Boomin. Tickets went through a pre-sale lottery that closed on 10 November.
Bethesda says there is nothing new on The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel “for some time”
Fans expected news on 11 November, Skyrim’s 15th anniversary. IGN reports that Bethesda posted on Reddit beforehand to say there would be no big announcements that day, and nothing new on Sentinel “for some time”. We logged the title reveal in Rumour Ledger Ed. 17.
WoW Forever quests from level 48 will pay more gold
World of Warcraft: Forever launched without the long-standing conversion of quest experience into gold at the level cap, and players reaching level 60 objected. IGN reports that Blizzard community manager Kaivax has announced a hotfix adding gold to most quests of level 48 and above, including quests that never paid gold before. Blizzard’s stated reason for dropping the conversion is that it rewarded players for hoarding finished quests until level 60. We covered WoW Forever at BlizzCon in September.