Rockstar Games Said to Be Working on GTA 4 PS5, Xbox Series S/X Port That Could Launch This Year

Grand Theft Auto 6 has been delayed from its unique Fall 2025 launch timeline to subsequent 12 months, however keen followers might get to play an older recreation from the sequence in an all-new avatar. Rockstar Games might be readying a Grand Theft Auto 4 port for current-generation consoles for launch in 2025. GTA 4 launched on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC in 2008 and has not made its manner to PS5 and Xbox Series S/X.

Rockstar Reportedly Working on GTA 4 Port

According to a tipster, the acclaimed GTA title might lastly be ported to fashionable platforms, with Rockstar eyeing a launch later this 12 months. The data comes from Tez2 on GTA boards (by way of Rockstar Games information channel @videotechuk_ on X), who claimed the port was in growth at Rockstar.

“Someone at R* (Rockstar) hinted at the IV port, and by now it should’ve gone up a year in development,” the tipster stated in response to a question on GTA boards on Sunday. “We may end up seeing it drop later this year. And it’s one more reason, in addition to existing reasons, the LCPP mod was taken down.”

The tipster is referring to Rockstar taking down the Liberty City Preservation Project mod earlier this 12 months. The well-liked mod introduced a playable model of GTA 4’s Liberty City map to Grand Theft Auto 5.

The takedown of the Liberty City mod in GTA 5 has additionally fuelled hypothesis that Rockstar’s model of New York City might make an look in GTA 6, particularly after the second trailer of the sport revealed a number of hyperlinks to Liberty City current within the subsequent Grand Theft Auto. One of GTA 6’s protgonist, Lucia, is confirmed to be from Liberty City, and Liberty City license plates could be seen on a number of vehicles within the second GTA 6 trailer.

Grand Theft Auto 4 is ready in Liberty City
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Max Payne Remakes

In addition to a GTA 4 port/remaster for contemporary platforms, in his put up, Tez2 additionally claimed that Rockstar might nonetheless be planning to do a Max Payne 3 port, which might arrive as a part of a bundle or a “Definitive Edition”, alongside remakes for each Max Payne 1 and a pair of.

Rockstar has not shared its plans for potential Grand Theft Auto and Max Payne remasters or remakes. The studio did launch Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition in 2021, a compilation that remasters three traditional GTA titles for contemporary platforms.

Grand Theft Auto 4 launched in 2008 on PS3 and Xbox 360 and obtained widespread important acclaim. It is taken into account one of many biggest video games of all time and has lengthy been requested by followers to be remastered for contemporary consoles. The recreation additionally acquired two main expansions packs, The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony, which function new protagonists and tales. A remastered model of GTA 4 might bundle each story expansions right into a single plackage with the bottom recreation, similar to the Complete Edition of the sport on PC.