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Footage of GTA6 running on PS5 became a hot topic on 5ch’s “Nandemo Jikkyo G” (anything-goes live-commentary) board. While many praised the graphical polish, the official confirmation of a fixed 30fps drew complaints like “makes me not want to buy it,” splitting opinion in the thread.
What people said
It's the Netflix early-access trailer.
Looks even nicer than this video.
Being similar to 5 is fine by me, but
is the 30fps thing for real?? If it's really true I honestly might not buy it.
Kojima, From, Koei, Biohazard… they're all still stuck below PS4 level.
I'm starting to lose the urge to buy it.
A post saying something like that showed up in my recommendations, but is it actually true?
Is that even possible these days?
Or is it about the thrill of being able to do anything?
They're clearly building this around next-gen consoles.
This game's going to be around for at least 10 years.
Still, it feels like the whole world's gaming trends are just GTA now.
Steal cars and kill people.
It's got that GTA: San Andreas vibe with realism beyond RDR2 — genuinely hyped.
The only worry is the 30fps.
Just that one thing, but it's a huge one.
Games like this aren't really fun unless you're doing a let's-play/commentary.
Just causing chaos is fun, but you get bored of it after about 3 minutes.
Honestly just playing through the story normally is the fun part.
If they did that with today's graphics, it'd get insane.
Meanwhile stuff like Final Fantasy has characters standing there stiff as boards.
Feels like the bar for AAA games is about to get raised all at once, for the first time in a while.
Can you even properly play it on a base PS5?
The trailers were captured on a regular PS5, so it runs fine.
The CPU that's causing the 30fps cap is the same on the base PS5 anyway.
GTA6 has a ridiculous number of cars and NPCs, so it doesn't seem like something you can fix just by lowering the graphics settings.
That goes for all console players.
Apparently it's 30fps across the board.
Just obey every traffic law and drive around ☺
Just walking around is fun enough.
Go wild fighting the cops nonstop, great stress relief 😁
Can't believe the PC version is supposed to look even better than this.
The thing is, there's not much to actually do amid all that gorgeous scenery…
Makes you wonder what that garbage leaked video from yesterday even was.
Though it's still 30fps, mind you.
They'll unlock that for the PS6 version.
Background and Key Points
Footage of Grand Theft Auto VI on PS5 has been circulating since Rockstar’s parent company Take-Two officially confirmed the title runs at a fixed 30 frames per second on all console platforms, including the PS5 Pro. This matters because GTA V, released in 2013, was also capped at 30fps on PS3/PS4 hardware and only got a 60fps patch years later on PS5/Xbox Series consoles — so longtime fans immediately recognized the pattern repeating. For context, 5ch is Japan’s largest anonymous forum network (the spiritual successor to 2channel), and “Nandemo Jikkyo G” is one of its live-commentary boards where posters react to trending video and news in real time; “livejupiter” (nanJ), referenced in the thread, is a separate 5ch board known for sports and gaming talk with a large PC-gaming-enthusiast presence, which is why one poster dismissed PC players there as vocal but commercially irrelevant to console-driven GTA sales.
The thread’s actual fault line wasn’t graphics versus gameplay — nearly everyone agreed the visuals were a leap forward — it was whether a fixed 30fps is acceptable in 2026 on flagship-tier hardware like the PS5 Pro. Some posters treated it as a dealbreaker significant enough to cancel a purchase; others argued GTA’s identity as a chaotic, systems-heavy open-world game (dense NPC and traffic simulation) makes 30fps an engineering tradeoff rather than laziness, and that lowering graphical fidelity to unlock 60fps isn’t feasible given the sheer object count on screen.
What’s likely to be misunderstood by non-Japanese readers: this isn’t a niche complaint. Frame rate has become a mainstream console-gaming flashpoint in Japan precisely because Sony markets the PS5 Pro on performance, so a first-party-adjacent AAA title shipping locked at 30fps reads as a broken promise to some, not just a technical footnote.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “[Video] The graphics quality of GTA6 running on PS5 wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.”
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