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Highly anticipated: Grand Theft Auto Online’s PC players have been eagerly anticipating the current-gen console upgrades to make their way to the PC version for years now. Well, the wait is finally over… kind of. Rockstar casually slipped in the news that the highly requested PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S features are coming to the PC platform sometime in 2025.
The announcement was buried at the bottom of a recent GTA Online community update.
“There is much more still to come, including ongoing weekly special events and bonuses, festive celebrations, gifts, surprises, as well as plans to bring the much-requested PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S features of GTA Online to the PC platform in the new year. Please stay tuned to the Rockstar Games Newswire for details,” notes the release.
As for what these “much-requested” features are, they’re related to the enhanced edition of GTA V that launched for PS5 and Xbox Series consoles back in 2022. With it arrived a host of visual and gameplay improvements. From a graphics perspective, it introduced goodies like more presets, ray-traced shadows, improved anti-aliasing, better lighting, and other enhancements, such as increased population and traffic variety.
Beyond visuals, there were new features that included unique vehicle upgrades, quality of life improvements to areas like the introduction and tutorial, and the new Hao’s Special Works auto shop with exclusive customization options. It also added the ability to transfer story mode progress and GTA Online characters from old-gen to new-gen consoles.
While the PC version already looks great graphically, it’s been lacking those extra bells and whistles found in the next-gen console release for the last couple of years. So it’s no surprise that fans have been lobbying for PC parity pretty much since the enhanced versions hit. But Rockstar has historically favored their more lucrative console fanbase as opposed to PC. Players had already given up hope, so this announcement will definitely cheer them up.
The rest of the announcement details more of the new content coming to GTA Online across all platforms in the December update. This includes new stuff to do at the Darnell Bros Garment Factory, Dispatch Work missions, fresh vehicles to customize, Job Creator updates, and more.
The bottom line is there’s plenty to keep players occupied until the update lands. Beyond that, GTA 6 is targeting a 2025 release too, at least on consoles.
For PC, the track record hasn’t been great. GTA 3 took seven months to arrive on PC following the console release, San Andreas and GTA IV both took eight, while GTA V took a whopping two years. Hopefully, things will be different this time.
