Sony says GTA 6 "plays best on PS5" in a PlayStation Blog post, with no performance details

Sony said on June 24, 2026 that GTA 6 "will play best on PS5", in a PlayStation Blog post by Mary Yee, senior vice president of marketing at Sony Interactive Entertainment. She credited the "close partnership" between Sony and Rockstar Games and said the game would use PS5's features to make its single-player story more immersive from its November 19 launch.

The post named specific features. The DualSense controller's haptic feedback gives responsive vibrations, its adaptive triggers add resistance, and its built-in speaker adds sound effects at key moments. Tempest 3D AudioTech is meant to place the sounds of Leonida around the player. Sony also said the game uses the console's fast SSD for "near-instant load times", and that a pre-order of any edition from PlayStation Store comes with a redeemable free month of GTA+. The post also pitched PS5 and PS5 Pro hardware to new players as "the best place to play".

Push Square noted that the post mentions no performance or graphics modes. The wording also makes no comparison with the Xbox Series X|S version of the game.

The campaign had a short detour. Push Square reported on the evening of June 24 that almost all of Sony's social media posts and the promotional video had been removed, while the blog post stayed up with the same wording. The outlet did not think it was a big deal and suspected an error in the videos. Later that night it reported the posts were back with the same branding, an updated GTA 6 logo and a newer PS5 model in the image. Push Square reported no explanation from Sony.

Put simply, the claim rested on controller, audio and loading features, not on frame rate or resolution. Those figures were not given on June 24.

Since then, Rockstar has confirmed a 30fps target and some PS5 Pro extras, which the site covers in a separate story.