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Yes, the GTA 6 leaked footage was probably running on PC, and no, that doesn't tell us a whole lot about the eventual release
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The internet is burning with speculation regarding the recent GTA 6 leaked footage, particularly as it appears to have been sourced from someone playing an actual build, rather than leaked video from Rockstar itself.
While we've been pouring over the videos and pulling out some of the juicy in-game details for ourselves, I've also seen some discussion regarding whether the footage was captured from a PC version of the game.
Multiple game devs responded to this publicly, and 2 in DM’s at major studios. It appears this GTA 6 leaked footage is from the PC version, and not console. https://t.co/yJKxPcTydHAugust 20, 2026
Putting aside the dubiousness of "I have devs in my DMs," I'd say this is probably likely to be correct, as others have suggested. It's either that, or the leaker has access to a console devkit—which seems less likely than a development build that runs on a PC being passed around behind the scenes.
The problem is, the idea that a PC build exists doesn't really tell us much. It'll be being developed on PC, of course, as that's the platform on which most games are made.
And while a PC release of GTA 6 hasn't been officially announced, there's no doubt that a retail PC version will appear at some point. Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said that the console release would be "serving the core" first, so it looks like us PC gamers will still have to wait. Just like we did for GTA V, and Red Dead Redemption 2, and... you get the idea.
What would really get me jumping up and down, though, would be an idea of the specs this particular build was running on. Some of the footage shows some reasonably fancy lighting, and areas with surprisingly long draw distances, as do the official trailers to date.
So what I really want to know, alongside the rest of the PC gaming public, is what sort of hardware we're going to need for smooth frame rates when the PC version eventually rears its head. Will a budget graphics card suffice? Or are we going to have to break out the RTX 5080s and RTX 5090s to push the graphics sliders up?
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