{"id":63745,"date":"2026-06-25T23:30:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=63745"},"modified":"2026-06-25T23:30:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:30:58","slug":"gta-6-has-near-instant-load-times-on-ps5-and-thats-a-bummer-for-some-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=63745","title":{"rendered":"GTA 6 Has \u201cNear-Instant\u201d Load Times On PS5, And That\u2019s A Bummer For Some People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A PlayStation Blog post co-authored by PlayStation and Rockstar Games said GTA 6 leverages the PS5&#8217;s SSD to allow people to experience&#8217;s the game&#8217;s fictional version of Miami and wider Florida with &#8220;near-instant load times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That sounds good and exciting, but it&#8217;s also bumming people out. The original version of GTA 5 that came out in 2013 for PS3 and Xbox 360 was known for its <em>lengthy <\/em>load times when booting the game up that could be minutes long. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nice artwork from GTA 5 would cycle through as the game loaded, and in cases where the loading took longer than expected, people might see character or environment art they hadn&#8217;t before. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the 2022 launch of GTA 5&#8217;s PS5 and Xbox Series X|S edition, load times were improved. The loading screens have always been a distinct element of the GTA series.<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-context=\"{ &quot;core&quot;: { &quot;image&quot;: { &quot;initialized&quot;: true } } }\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1803075\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Real_Dimez_landscape.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1803075\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">GTA 6 artwork.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People online are saying they will miss this if GTA 6 does indeed have &#8220;near-instant&#8221; load times. That being said, this is all based off one line in a blog post, so it&#8217;s unclear what &#8220;near-instant&#8221; even means or if it even pertains to the main loading page when the game boots up each time or something else. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A lot of the GTA 6 artwork hosted on the game&#8217;s website bears a resemblance stylistically to the art from GTA 5&#8217;s loading screens, so you can at least look at it there or download for yourself. But, again, that&#8217;s not the same as sitting on your couch or in your chair looking at the artwork as the game loads. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\">Preorder GTA 6 at Amazon<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The PlayStation Blog post is titled &#8220;GTA 6 plays best on PS5,&#8221; a claim that has not been independently verified and comes as part of Sony&#8217;s marketing arrangement with Rockstar, which is seeking to associate the game with PlayStation first and foremost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The game is also coming to Xbox Series X, which has similar technical capabilities to the PS5, along with the relatively less powerful Xbox Series S. GTA 6 will also play on the PS5 Pro, but Rockstar has yet to confirm any specific enhancements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GTA 6 launches on November 19 for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. GTA 6 preorders are finally, at long last, open on both consoles, and you can choose the $80 standard edition or $100 ultimate edition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gta-6-has-near-instant-load-times-on-ps5-and-thats-a-bummer-for-some-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A PlayStation Blog post co-authored by PlayStation and Rockstar Games said GTA 6 leverages the PS5&#8217;s SSD to allow people to experience&#8217;s the game&#8217;s fictional&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[25416,3402,23359,25415,121,4373,286],"class_list":["post-63745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-bummer","tag-gta","tag-load","tag-nearinstant","tag-people","tag-ps5","tag-times","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}