The launch trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA6) has been released, drawing a flood of reactions on 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (Geha) board. The footage is said to show gameplay captured on a standard PS5, and while many were stunned by the graphical quality, there was also notable anxiety that release is approaching without a clear sense of how the actual gameplay feels. Threads also debated the thin treatment of the Xbox version, as well as whether the Japanese release is subject to heavier content regulation (a “censored version”) compared to the overseas Xbox/PC releases.
It is coming out on Xbox too, right?
Paying for exclusivity just to pull a dick move like this is beyond messed up
They bought the ad rights
Same thing happened with [Monster Hunter] Wilds — there wasn't even a playable demo station at TGS
Guess that means nothing then
It got hyped up like big news on Geha, but it's probably just a routine licensing renewal
You can tell just from watching the ads, right?
That's a seriously low level of interest
No Japanese people buy Western games, so of course there's no hype
Impressive that it runs with graphics this clean
Something like RDR, set in the Wild West era, is more interesting
Started RDR2 to celebrate GTA6 since I never got around to it, and it's actually great
Well, failed-filmmaker types make up a lot of the core staff on Western AAA games
If we're talking hype, view counts are definitely gonna blow right past Ocarina of Time — is that fine with you?
This close to release and there's still no demo or gameplay video
Makes me worried it's gonna be buggy or run choppy
Haven't you seen the long trailer?
That's gameplay footage from a standard PS5
Guess it's no good unless the setting looks like some Chinese gacha game
They already put out gameplay footage back in summer though…
I don't own a PS or an Xbox, so hurry up and put it out on Switch 2
There was a leak about that, right?
Keep holding onto that hope and wait forever then
Wolverine tried that before release and it flopped — no way they'd repeat that mistake and show their hand
Going with the PC version — there was a leak that it's coming out soon anyway
The running and driving scenes look great
Come to think of it, there was gameplay footage of a car chase
PS5 is the only place you can actually play it, so there's no choice but to buy one
The only downgrade for the Japanese version is the censorship, lol
Xbox has the advantage of being uncensored, but PS is just a low-res, low-framerate 'kiddie edition' lol
Isn't this year's nomination deadline already past anyway?
GTA's always been like this
But uncensored
The real barrier is the censorship
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
GTA6 has had a long stretch between its announcement and release, and anticipation runs high on 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (Geha) board — but in the thread right after the trailer dropped, reactions focused more on peripheral details than the content of the game itself. Underlying this is a long-running “censored version” debate over whether the Japanese PS5 release is more restricted than overseas versions in terms of violent content, plus the tendency for marketing of popular titles to lean toward PS5, which easily gets read as “Xbox being snubbed.” Within the thread, some corrections tempered the heated reactions, with posters pointing out things like “they just bought the ad rights” and “the same thing happened with Monster Hunter Wilds.” At the same time, the anxiety over no uncut gameplay footage being shown even this close to release draws on precedents like Wolverine, whose pre-release gameplay reveal went over poorly — a wariness that remains deeply rooted on the Geha board.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry [Geha]) thread “[Breaking] Grand Theft Auto VI Launch Trailer Released!“
