GTA 5 now has a PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X launch date: November 11. Rockstar Games introduced Tuesday that the “expanded and enhanced” variations of Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online would launch in late 2021 on next-gen consoles, over eight years on from the video games’ launch on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 — and in flip, bringing the famed title to a 3rd technology of consoles. Rockstar did not element the brand new options coming to GTA 5 and GTA Online, although it did tease “fun surprises” associated to GTA Three because it celebrates its 20th anniversary this 12 months.

The November 11 GTA V launch date announcement for PS5 and Xbox Series S/X got here alongside the annual earnings report of Rockstar Games’ mother or father firm Take-Two Interactive on Tuesday that featured no new data on the long-anticipated GTA 6. For now, Rockstar appears content material in driving extra worth out of the eight-year-old GTA 5 and its online-only counterpart GTA Online that has grossed billions of {dollars} in microtransactions. To get extra of us on board, Rockstar reiterated that GTA Online will probably be free to PS5 gamers for the primary three months.

Additionally, PlayStation Plus members on PS4 can preserve incomes GTA$1,000,000 by visiting the PlayStation Store firstly of every month — this will probably be relevant until November, that’s till the launch of GTA Online on PlayStation 5. Rockstar had introduced the PS5-exclusive free GTA Online and the in-game money bonus in June at E3 final 12 months, the place it first announced that GTA 5 could be coming to next-gen consoles within the second half of 2021. Now we now have a precise launch date.

GTA 5 and GTA Online launch November 11 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X. Rockstar additionally stated that GTA Online’s summer time 2021 updates will embrace “special benefits” for next-gen consumers that assist them make extra of the “expanded and enhanced” variations.

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