Don’t Have 210 Spare GBs? ‘GTA VI’ Is Coming to Xbox Cloud Gaming (and the Xbox One) at Launch

Surprise! Grand Theft Auto VI is coming to Xbox Cloud Gaming at launch, and will be playable on both the current-generation consoles (Xbox Series X|S) and the prior one (Xbox One).

Xbox says GTA VI is “the most pre-ordered title of all time on the Microsoft Store,” and the company says it “encourage(s) everyone to begin pre-loading as soon as possible to ensure you’re prepared for launch day.”

Grand Theft Auto VI will be playable on day one via Cloud Gaming at 1 a.m. ET. The game uses Xbox Series S graphics settings when cloud-streamed.

GTA VI is 210 gb.

PlayStation players do not (currently) have this option.

To be clear, here is a handy, Xbox-provided guide to how and when you can play Grand Theft Auto VI.

• XBOX Series X: Play natively with the best XBOX console experience, available now to pre-install.
• XBOX Series S: The most affordable way to play GTA VI natively on XBOX, available now to pre-install.
• XBOX One: Stream Grand Theft Auto VI through XBOX Cloud Gaming on the XBOX One.

You’ll need one of those three devices — smart TVs, browsers and Fire sticks won’t cut it (for now).

Other Rockstar Games like Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2 are coming to Xbox Cloud Gaming “in the coming months.”

Additionally, starting Wednesday, players in 29 supported markets can “buy cloud playtime to stream supported games without a Game Pass subscription,” per Xbox. (For 10 hours: $3.99, for 25 hours: $7.99, for 50 hours: $11.99.)