GTA Online on PC will finally catch up to the console versions next year

Highly anticipated: Grand Theft Auto Online's PC players person been eagerly anticipating nan current-gen console upgrades to make their measurement to nan PC type for years now. Well, nan hold is yet over... benignant of. Rockstar casually slipped successful nan news that nan highly requested PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S features are coming to nan PC level sometime successful 2025.

The announcement was buried astatine nan bottommost of a caller GTA Online organization update.

"There is overmuch much still to come, including ongoing play typical events and bonuses, festive celebrations, gifts, surprises, arsenic good arsenic plans to bring nan much-requested PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S features of GTA Online to nan PC level successful nan caller year. Please enactment tuned to nan Rockstar Games Newswire for details," notes nan release.

As for what these "much-requested" features are, they're related to nan enhanced edition of GTA V that launched for PS5 and Xbox Series consoles backmost successful 2022. With it arrived a big of ocular and gameplay improvements. From a graphics perspective, it introduced goodies for illustration much presets, ray-traced shadows, improved anti-aliasing, amended lighting, and different enhancements, specified arsenic accrued organization and postulation variety.

Beyond visuals, location were caller features that included unsocial conveyance upgrades, value of life improvements to areas for illustration nan preamble and tutorial, and nan caller Hao's Special Works car shop pinch exclusive customization options. It besides added nan expertise to transportation communicative mode advancement and GTA Online characters from old-gen to new-gen consoles.

While nan PC type already looks awesome graphically, it's been lacking those other bells and whistles recovered successful nan next-gen console merchandise for nan past mates of years. So it's nary astonishment that fans person been lobbying for PC parity beautiful overmuch since nan enhanced versions hit. But Rockstar has historically favored their much lucrative console fanbase arsenic opposed to PC. Players had already fixed up hope, truthful this announcement will decidedly cheer them up.

The remainder of nan announcement specifications much of nan caller contented coming to GTA Online crossed each platforms successful nan December update. This includes caller worldly to do astatine nan Darnell Bros Garment Factory, Dispatch Work missions, caller vehicles to customize, Job Creator updates, and more.

The bottommost statement is there's plentifulness to support players occupied until nan update lands. Beyond that, GTA 6 is targeting a 2025 merchandise too, astatine slightest on consoles.

For PC, nan way grounds hasn't been great. GTA 3 took 7 months to get connected PC pursuing nan console release, San Andreas and GTA IV some took eight, while GTA V took a whopping 2 years. Hopefully, things will beryllium different this time.