Former Rockstar developer says AI concerns could bring GTA 6 to PC sooner

Former Rockstar technical director Obbe Vermeij believes AI-generated ports could influence GTA 6’s PC release

A former Rockstar developer believes Grand Theft Auto 6 could arrive on PC sooner than expected, suggesting the growing use of artificial intelligence could encourage the studio to shorten the gap between console and PC releases.

Obbe Vermeij, Rockstar's former technical director, discussed the possibility in an interview with Rock Paper Shotgun.

He suggested that AI tools could allow unofficial developers to adapt the PlayStation 5 version of the game for PC, potentially affecting Rockstar's sales.

“It really has changed the world, and I think I would be concerned, if I was Rockstar, that somebody would just take the PS5 version and get AI to change it to PC,” Vermeij said.

Although he acknowledged that an unofficial conversion would not match Rockstar's own work, he warned that it could still affect the company's commercial performance.

“So, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was an effort to get [the releases] a little bit closer together,” he added, while stressing that he did not know what the studio was planning.

Vermeij also explained that creating an unofficial PC port using AI would require considerable time and resources.

He estimated that the process could cost tens of thousands of dollars in AI tokens, but suggested that developers might still attempt it because of the game's popularity.

“It will take a long time. It actually, physically takes hours and hours and hours to do these things. And it will take a bunch of tokens and everything, so it would probably cost like, tens of thousands of dollars in tokens,” he said. “But like, you know, if it’s GTA, I think people are gonna try it.”

GTA 6 is scheduled to launch on November 19 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Rockstar has not announced a PC release date.

The studio has traditionally brought its games to PC after their console launches. GTA 5 arrived on PC in 2015, around 18 months after its console release, while Red Dead Redemption 2 followed approximately a year after its console debut.