As we wait for the release of GTA VI, let's not forget about GTA V and the hardware it was made for

GTA V was designed for PlayStation 3 and released in 2013 (links are disabled, you'll need to search GTA V PS3 gameplay yourself). Now, why would this really impact GTA VI?

It doesn't. What it impacts is our expectations out of GTA VI. Rockstar has decided that their competition is the worst one possible on the market, their competition is the player's expectations of them.

GTA V looks pretty, no? Phenomenal even for the year it was launched in. Let's not forget the hardware it was launched for:

- A 192 GFLOPS GPU, a GPU that is roughly 54 times weaker than the one in the PS5.

- 256 MB of RAM. Yep, GTA V ran on 256MB RAM. 34 times less than what the PS5 can work with.

- The CPU has quite good for specific things, but not even close to the PS5.

On average, GTA VI is designed for a console that is roughly 50 times better than the PS3 in gaming.

Rockstar has an enormous burden to deal with, and quite frankly this is the path they've chosen.