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GTA 6 trailer detail confirms PlayStation rumour with huge coup for Sony

One minor detail at the end of the latest Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer seemingly confirms that Sony has acquired the marketing rights to Rockstar's upcoming game

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Jason and Lucia are ready to cause carnage(Image: Rockstar)

After more than 500 days of silence, we finally got a new trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6 yesterday and it looks just as incredible as the first one.

While we've already spent some time digging into it to find some exciting new tidbits about Vice City, Jason, Lucia, and the extended cast of characters, there's one subtle detail at the end you may not have spotted.

The trailer, which you can watch again in all its glory below, was all captured on PlayStation 5. The game is coming to Xbox Series X and S, too, but it appears that Sony has indeed locked down marketing rights for the biggest game in history.

Here's why that matters.

Sony secures GTA 6 marketing rights

Exclusive marketing rights are nothing new, but there's never been a game quite as big and medium-defining as GTA 6.

So, why does it matter? In truth, for many people it might not if you're an Xbox gamer, you'll know GTA is coming. But for anyone that doesn't have a console capable of playing GTA 6 yet, seeing the PlayStation logo at the end of an advert might be all they need to see to make their decision.

In fact, they might never even bother to check out Xbox as a result, so having that kind of sway is likely to be important for Sony or Microsoft when it comes to the marketing plan rollout from Rockstar.

Expect those rights to have been expensive, too, given just how massive GTA 6 could be for the gaming industry and beyond.

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We now know so much more about GTA6 and the people in it(Image: Rockstar)

It could also mean that GTA 6 on PC gets knocked further down the line, but we'll hopefully hear more soon.

Back in January, one former GTA 5 developer said that he expects that the game will be targeting a "locked 30fps".

"They're gonna try to optimize as much as they can to where it never goes below 30. But it can be bumped up to 40, 41, 52, whatever, and I bet you, like, later, once it's on PC, it'll probably get super optimized and changed and new graphics cards that come out and you'll be able to run it at 60fps probably at that time," he said

"I don't think [with the] initial release it'll come out at 60fps unless it's getting those 60fps by [using] an AI upscaler thing like the PlayStation is doing [PSSR], unless something is coming in and helping it get those 60fps," York explained.

"I don't think it'll get the 60fps raw out the gate on a base console. PS5, for instance. Maybe PS5 Pro, or whatever, but I still don't think so."

All of this is to say, if GTA 6 PS5 looks this good, how impressive could PS5 Pro make the game look?

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