A New GTA VI Trailer Is Right here, however We Nonetheless Don’t Know if the Sport Is Coming to Swap 2

Grand Theft Auto VI won’t arrive in 2025, however as a comfort prize, Rockstar Video games dropped a video that includes a couple of snippets of gameplay for what’s nonetheless one of the anticipated video games set to reach subsequent yr. That slice-of-life trailer cements simply how little we find out about Rockstar’s ultra-hyped open world. The massive query on everybody’s thoughts: will GTA VI ever launch on Nintendo Switch 2, and if there are plans, will it arrive on the Might 26, 2026 launch date, or someday after?

Rockstar’s new web page for GTA VI presents a couple of scant particulars concerning the sport’s story and its expansive solid of felony characters. Gamers will terrorize Vice Metropolis and the encompassing state of Leonida Keys as Jason Duval, a army vet working for drug sellers. His companion in crime, Lucia Caminos, is an ex-con who needs to make her goals of a very good life a actuality by any means vital. On the prime of the web page, Rockstar says the upcoming open-world sport can be accessible on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and Series S at launch. It makes no point out of PC or Swap 2 availability.

Rockstar usually takes a full yr earlier than it publishes its video games to different platforms, prefer it did for Grand Theft Auto V and Pink Lifeless Redemption 2 on PC (these ports are reportedly more complicated than they appear). Nonetheless, the corporate has labored with Nintendo to launch previous titles like the primary Pink Lifeless Redemption on the unique Swap (although not the current remastered model). Judging by analyst expectations and its massive wave of preorders, the Swap 2 is about to be the largest console launch of the previous a number of years. The online game business is counting on GTA VI to be a equally landmark launch. Publishers additionally hope GTA writer Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar will promote the sport for $100, setting a brand new worth ceiling for sport costs past today’s burgeoning $80 AAA game standard.

One business analyst who spoke to Gizmodo talked about Nintendo might not admire the press of the ultra-violent Grand Theft Auto sequence lastly coming to its largely family-friendly platform. Nonetheless, Take-Two has each motive to need GTA VI on Swap 2, and Strauss Zelnick, the corporate’s CEO, stated as a lot throughout a recent earnings call. Zelnick hedged his bets, telling buyers that Nintendo’s consoles aren’t simply geared for youthful gamers. He cited video games like Civilization VII being on the Swap 2 for instance of the hand held’s getting older demographic. He added that his firm “really would totally anticipate to assist Swap [2].”

Zelnick not too long ago needed to assuage shareholders’ disappointment on the GTA VI delay. A Swap 2 announcement would do so much to assist in that regard, although we’ve not heard something official. “We’ve had—clearly—a long-standing relationship with Nintendo,” Zelnick stated throughout his February earnings report. “We’ve supported the platform when it made sense for the person launch.”

There’s additionally the matter of whether or not or not the Swap 2 is as much as snuff to run GTA VI. The console’s Nvidia-made chipset is imagined to have efficiency roughly between a PlayStation 4 and PS4 Professional. That being stated, the Swap 2 is highly effective sufficient to play Cyberpunk 2077, although solely at 1080p when docked and hooked as much as a TV. CD Projekt Pink labored straight with Nintendo on the port, and builders recently said on a Nintendo Creator’s Voice video the port could also be “essentially the most cyberpunk manner” of enjoying the sport because of the addition of mouse and motion controls on the brand new Pleasure-Cons 2. CD Projekt Pink VP of enterprise improvement Jan Rosner instructed The Game Business that it is sensible for Cyberpunk 2077 to be on Swap 2 since “Nintendo’s viewers is rising and broadening.”

Cyberpunk 2077 will match on a 64GB sport card, although that’s not the norm. Many different massive, third-party games will be loaded on game-key cards, that are basically a obtain code for gamers to get the title on Nintendo’s eShop. GTA VI will doubtless be an enormous title, and it may simply eat up an enormous chunk of the system’s 256GB built-in storage. Cyberpunk 2077 can be a barely totally different expertise than on PC, particularly contemplating the distinction within the dimension of the sport, although Rosner harassed that coming again to Evening Metropolis will nonetheless be as engrossing and violent as earlier than.

Even when CD Projekt Pink had a simple time porting to Swap 2, there are different technical elements to contemplate. Rockstar’s video games run on the Rockstar Superior Sport Engine, although we don’t know the way a lot stress it’d placed on each trendy consoles, particularly when enjoying at 4K. The one upscaling tech the sport could have entry to is the still-limited, AMD-based PSSR on PlayStation 5 Pro, so Rockstar could be higher off making GTA VI accessible with the Nvidia-made upscaling on the Swap 2. There’s nonetheless loads of time for Rockstar to lastly allow us to maintain up drugstores on Nintendo’s family-friendly console.