Earlier right now, Rockstar Video games shared new details about the music and radio stations that may seem in Grand Theft Auto 6. Included with that information have been a couple of new screenshots. And one specific screenshot that includes automobiles on a wet road at evening has bought folks freaking out and questioning if GTA 6 will truly seem like this on consoles. And the reply is, yeah, in all probability. Largely.
On October 8, Rockstar revealed that quite a few well-known musicians, together with Unhealthy Bunny, would host a few of the radio stations in GTA 6. We additionally bought our first official affirmation of a few of these stations and what sorts of music they’ll play, and discovered that you simply’ll be capable to take heed to all of them on foot through your telephone. However on the web site sharing all this data, a background screenshot of GTA 6 caught many individuals’s consideration, together with my very own. Right here’s a direct hyperlink to a brilliant high-res model of it.
Within the screenshot, we are able to spot a couple of completely different automobiles and other people on a wet road someplace within the coronary heart of Vice Metropolis at evening. Within the background, the neon lights of the Ocean View Lodge mild up the buildings and moist pavement. And within the puddles, you possibly can spot reflections of automobiles and different components of the surroundings. It’s actually spectacular, and followers on-line are freaking out over how good it appears whereas others are nervous it won’t be actual or is doctored to look higher than something the precise recreation can produce when working on a PS5 in November.
“Ain’t no approach that first screenshot is actual; it appears so good,” replied one individual on social media.
“Thought these have been renders, however precise photographs?” requested one other consumer.
Digital Foundry’s Oliver Mackenzie weighed in on the matter when pinged by GTA content material creator Ben VideoTech, and urged that Rockstar could also be utilizing some kind of debug picture mode that may permit them to show up decision and settings to make the shot look pretty much as good as attainable. Nonetheless, as identified by Mackenzie, in case you have a look at the screenshot carefully, you can begin to note some visible faults that counsel it might be a shot captured from the sport working on PS5 Professional. However “it’s not likely attainable to inform.”
It isn’t good although. The reflections within the mid-field on a sort of semi-gloss highway and sidewalk floor are fairly messy wanting and appear indicative of one thing near console settings. pic.twitter.com/sfvoZpimpc
— Oliver Mackenzie (@oliemack) October 8, 2026
For instance, reflections additional again within the picture present apparent dithering, one thing we see on a regular basis on reflections in most console video games in 2026. You can even spot that shadows aren’t being drawn below pedestrians within the far distance. And in case you look actually far within the background and zoom in quite a bit, you possibly can even spot what seem like lower-poly folks standing round.
Previously, Rockstar has typically used actual, in-game and in-engine footage and screenshots of its upcoming video games for advertising and marketing screenshots and trailers. I bear in mind when GTA V was popping out, folks checked out screenshots of the sport and swore Rockstar was utilizing touched-up pictures or working the sport on excessive settings on PC. Nonetheless, wanting again at GTA V‘s Xbox 360 screenshots in 2026, it’s very clear these have been taken within the recreation. Maybe captured utilizing a debug device that permit Rockstar flip up some settings and add some further lights and poses, however GTA V‘s pre-release photographs are very consultant of what the sport appeared like on Xbox 360 and PS3. That is true of different Rockstar titles, too, like Purple Lifeless, Bully, and Max Payne 3.
I believe what’s seemingly occurred right here is that Rockstar is working the sport on a PS5 Professional devkit and is utilizing some kind of debug menu to take a super-crisp screenshot of the sport at its highest attainable decision. So whereas the ultimate recreation would possibly not often look this good and clear, I do suppose that, yeah, GTA 6 goes to look unbelievable at evening on PS5, PS5 Professional, and Xbox Sequence X. As for Xbox Sequence S, properly, good luck, my mates.