GTA 6 looks incredible, but I’m not upgrading my PC hardware just yet

We now know what GTA 6 appears like, primarily based on what was introduced within the current trailer, not less than. It obtained me pondering: will my gaming rig even have the ability to deal with the warmth? Effectively, in need of having no official line on a launch window for the PC model, I’m refraining from any panic buys at the moment, and you must too.

GTA 6 will ultimately be launched on PC, simply like its predecessor, which was one of many best games on PC. Though we hope to not have to attend as lengthy after the console releases this time. However given how nice the sport already appears, it might be simple to get drawn right into a panic and upgrading {hardware} nicely upfront.

As a substitute, my plan is way easier: I’m going to attend. I’ve waited lengthy sufficient for the reveal of GTA 6, so I can deal with a number of extra years of ready earlier than I would like to really put together for its arrival.

It’s comprehensible that after the discharge of Alan Wake 2 – a recreation that utterly ripped up the normal method to graphical constancy and made lofty calls for even in its lowest system requirements – the door could be open for different builders to do the identical. I, nonetheless, see this as an remoted case… for now.

GTA 6, not like Alan Wake 2, can be an enormous open-world recreation, and which means the world itself is constructed in another way from day one. At this level, I feel it’s secure to rule out Nvidia GTX collection playing cards as viable for GTA 6, however past that, I think about the bar may nonetheless be set as little as the RTX 20 or 30-series playing cards.

Rockstar is sensible to the business and gained’t need to put GTA 6 out of attain for PC gamers. Will probably be a recreation that thrives as a result of so many individuals can play and revel in it for years. So, whereas it’s not unreasonable to imagine Rockstar gained’t compromise closely to account for finances or outdated {hardware}, given the place the market could also be in two years, I can’t see there being an outrage over who can and may’t get GTA 6 to run.

In reality, I can see retailers concentrating on the GTA 6 release date with their pre-builds in some unspecified time in the future over the following few years, promoting on the premise that ‘this PC will run GTA 6’ in the identical means that many gaming laptops are nonetheless offered with GTA 5 factored in. Granted this has since moved on to titles like Cyberpunk 2077, however that’s additionally an amazing benchmark to contemplate.

For those who just lately upgraded your PC or bought an up-to-date gaming laptop computer or pre-built rig prior to now 12 months, it’s secure to imagine you shouldn’t have any points operating GTA 6. Till we’re instructed in any other case, I’ll even assume my present PC is ok too, with its Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070, though the eleventh gen Intel i7 processor could be trigger for concern.

I’ll proceed to window store for upgrades as all the time, however the urge to only purchase a brand new GPU or CPU is definitely quelled by the truth that there isn’t any means of telling how GTA 6 on PC can be dealt with. With doubtlessly two years of video games nonetheless to come back earlier than we get our fingers on GTA 6, it’s all the time a risk that different video games shake up the {hardware} market nicely earlier than then, maybe following on from the spark that Alan Wake 2 ignited earlier this yr.

Strap in, people. We’ve obtained a protracted approach to go, however the wait can be price it, I’m certain.