Longer day-night cycle
Edge 430 interview with Rockstar North
Reported
Edge reports that the brisk day-night cycle of GTA V has been extended substantially in GTA 6, with sunsets that linger and nights that stretch out. Rob Nelson told Edge that testing with GTA V’s timings made everything feel too fast. Rockstar has not given a length for a day.
The picture above is a representative Rockstar image, not necessarily this feature: Vice City from the air by day: a beach club with parasols, turquoise water with speedboats, an elevated highway, a Ferris wheel and the downtown skyline
At a glance
- Status
- Reported: An outlet’s description of Rockstar’s footage, previews or interviews. Rockstar has not confirmed it.
- Where it was seen
- Edge 430 interview with Rockstar North
- Type
- World
- Who says so
- Edge (Simon Parkin, via GamesRadar+)
- Last checked
Is the day-night cycle longer in GTA 6?
Reportedly yes. Edge says GTA V’s brisk day-night cycle has been “extended substantially” for GTA 6. Sunsets last longer and nights are drawn out, which Edge frames as more time for anything you want to get done in the dark. It is a line in Simon Parkin’s Edge 430 cover story, based on a visit to Rockstar North, so it is reported, not a Rockstar announcement. Edge doesn’t say by how much, or which hours grew most.
Why did Rockstar slow time down?
Edge ties it to how the world looks. Rob Nelson told it that when the team tested GTA 6 using GTA V’s timings, “everything felt too fast” in a world drawn at this level of detail. Edge presents the change as partly a way to avoid what it calls a temporal uncanny valley.
Nelson makes a similar point about people. As the world gets sharper, he says, some old shortcuts stop working, such as pedestrians who ignore a gun appearing in front of them. The only night-time scene we found in Edge’s account is the demo chase on our police K9 units and stinger strips page, where a stinger strip was almost invisible in the dark.
How long is a day in GTA 6?
Nobody outside Rockstar has said. Edge gives no figure, only the word “substantially”, and Rockstar hasn’t published one. We don’t use leaked material, so we have no number to offer. We also don’t know whether the length of day and night differs, how the lighting changes through the hours, or whether you can skip time. Weather is tied to time of day in Edge’s account, which our weather feature page covers.
How did earlier GTA games handle time?
Grand Theft Wiki says time was static until GTA III, then ran at one real second per in-game minute, so a day took 24 real minutes through the 3D era. It says GTA IV doubled that to 48 minutes. That page doesn’t give a figure for GTA V, so we don’t either; Edge calls its cycle brisk, with no number.
Sources
Frequently asked
Does GTA 6 have longer day-night cycle?
Edge (Simon Parkin, via GamesRadar+) report it (Edge 430 interview with Rockstar North), but Rockstar has not confirmed it.
Where has the Longer day-night cycle been seen?
Edge 430 interview with Rockstar North. Edge reports that the brisk day-night cycle of GTA V has been extended substantially in GTA 6, with sunsets that linger and nights that stretch out. Rob Nelson told Edge that testing with GTA V’s timings made everything…
Is the day-night cycle longer in GTA 6 than GTA 5?
Reportedly yes. Edge says GTA V’s cycle has been extended substantially, with lingering sunsets and longer nights. No length has been given.
How long is a day in GTA 6?
Rockstar hasn’t said, and Edge gives no number. We don’t use leaked figures.
Why is the day-night cycle longer in GTA 6?
Rob Nelson told Edge that GTA V’s timings made everything feel too fast in a world at this level of detail.
Are nights longer in GTA 6?
Edge says sunsets linger and nights stretch out. It doesn’t give times.
