GTA 6 splits Story and Online on PS5, Tex2 says

GTA 6 on PS5 may not be one big block of data. “#GTAVI uses a shared base installation. Story content is separated from the core game, and VI’s Online will be separated too,” Tex2 wrote on X on the morning of 9 November, a few hours before PS5 pre-loading starts in New Zealand. The post rests on the game’s PS5 PlayGo data, the list of parts a PS5 download is cut into. Rockstar and Sony have not said this themselves.

What the chunk list shows

Five minutes earlier Tex2 posted the list: 32 chunks for “Grand Theft Auto VI” on “PS5”. One is labelled story000 at 17.92 GiB, two core parts, core_bvh4 and core_bvh8, are about 12 GiB each, and there is a small shared_minigame000 part of 883 MiB. The biggest pieces carry plain names such as Levels(americas) at 64.51 GiB and TextureDatabases at 53.42 GiB. No chunk in the list has online in its name, so the online part of the post is Tex2’s reading, not a label you can see.

Asked what the core game then is, Tex2 replied: “Shared assets like the game world, vehicles, weapons”. Tex2 added: “You won’t have to download the X amount of Vice City or Port Gellhorn assets twice for Story mode and Online.”

A part for some regions only

Three chunks are labelled restofworld: story000_restofworld, core_restofworld and core_restofworld001. Tex2 says in the same thread that “Rest of World” is “content censored from some regional versions, likely the Japanese version in this case”, about 1.46 GiB or 1.57 GB, which is the same size in two units.

Session and multiplayer entries

Early on 9 November, hours before Tex2’s thread, PlayStation Game Size posted that “Grand Theft Auto VI supports” three intent types: “joinSession”, “launchActivity” and “launchMultiplayerActivity”. Charlie Intel repeated two of those names, saying the game “supports “joinSession” and “launchMultiplayerActivity” on PlayStation”. The post lists the names only and does not say what Rockstar uses them for, so this is a separate rumour in our register.

What Rockstar says

Rockstar has not announced an online mode for GTA 6; the US PlayStation Store describes the game as “a single-player experience”. Its Pre-Load FAQ gives one number for the download, “up to 212 GB of available space depending on your device”, with no split between story and online. Our online page tracks what is actually known, and the claim in our claims register moves when Rockstar or Sony confirms it.