Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced a 10-year strategic partnership with Take-Two Interactive, starting with GTA 6 on Xbox Cloud Gaming. According to Insider Gaming, her post on X says GTA 6 will be playable on Xbox One through cloud gaming when it launches on 19 November.
That means Xbox One owners can play GTA 6 without new hardware. Rockstar says the game will also be available via Xbox Cloud Gaming on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One consoles, using Xbox Series S graphics settings. Rockstar also warns that connection speeds may affect performance in ways local play wouldn’t.
Today marks the first step in our new 10-year strategic partnership with Take-Two.
Asha Sharma, CEO of Xbox
Take-Two is the parent of Rockstar Games, creator of Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption. Sharma gave few details beyond the cloud access. GameSpot says she “didn’t clarify what this means”, and the deal’s terms aren’t public. According to Insider Gaming, Sharma also says more Rockstar titles will join Xbox Cloud Gaming, including Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2.
Access is less clear. It’s unclear whether streaming will need a Game Pass subscription, and Pixel Twelve notes Xbox didn’t say which access options will apply. Beebom says subscribers get 15 free hours with Ultimate, 10 with Premium, and five with Essential.
Ball and The Verge disagree on whether GTA 6’s cloud access is exclusive. Matthew Ball, Xbox’s chief strategy officer, wrote on X on 7 October that the game won’t stream exclusively or to PC. The Verge, as reported by Inquisitr, argues the arrangement “amounts to exclusive cloud play on Xbox consoles at launch”, even if Microsoft’s contract may not mention exclusivity.
According to The Next Web, Take-Two’s forecast of $8bn to $8.2bn in net bookings for the year to March 2027 rests largely on GTA 6.
For UAE pricing, Tbreak’s GTA 6 guide puts the UAE PlayStation Store price at AED 299.16 and covers unlock times and pre-load. The game launches on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on 19 November, and the download requires up to 212 GB of storage, depending on the device. Pre-loading opened on 10 November for digital pre-orders on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.
