GTA 6 PS5 download mostly levels and textures, report says

GTA 6 on PS5 may be one download, but the download is cut into named parts. Top5Gamingx posted on the morning of 9 November that “GTA 6’s download package on PS5 is 222.93 GB” and showed a list of the largest chunks. About an hour later Tex2 posted the full PlayGo chunk metadata: a JSON list titled “Grand Theft Auto VI” on “PS5” with 32 chunks. Rockstar and Sony have not published that list, and Rockstar’s own figure is still up to 212 GB.

What the list says takes the space

The biggest labels in Tex2’s list, as we read them from the image, are:

• Levels(americas): 64.51 GiB
• TextureDatabases: 53.42 GiB
• Audio: 22.15 GiB
• story000: 17.92 GiB
• core_bvh4: 12.18 GiB and core_bvh8: 12.11 GiB
• Movies: 8.22 GiB, Navmeshes(americas): 5.42 GiB, Packs: 4.07 GiB, Anim: 3.85 GiB

GiB here is binary (2³⁰ bytes), the unit in the PlayGo list. GB is decimal (10⁹ bytes), the unit Top5Gamingx and PlayStation Game Size used for the package total. They are not the same number with a different label.

The gap in the short list

Top5Gamingx’s image covers chunks 0 to 19. Adding the byte sizes in that image gives about 145.64 GiB (about 156.38 GB). The 222.93 GB package figure is about 207.62 GiB, so roughly 62 GiB is missing from that short list. Those missing parts sit in chunks 20 to 31 of Tex2’s full list: about 61.97 GiB, and most of that is TextureDatabases at 53.42 GiB. Adding all 32 display sizes from Tex2’s image comes out at about 207.62 GiB / 222.93 GB, which matches Top5Gamingx’s package figure. Separately, PlayStation Game Size put a “Worldwide Version” at 223.088 GB earlier the same morning.

The same 0–19 list later circulated again via Roddy Games; the primary reads are Top5Gamingx’s post and Tex2’s full JSON. A related reading of the same PlayGo data is our earlier report that Story and Online may share a base install.

One chunk fewer in Australia and New Zealand

Tex2’s list includes a chunk named core_restofworld001. In a reply under the list he wrote that “Rest of World” is “content censored from some regional versions, likely the Japanese version in this case”, and that it “weighs about 1.46 GiB / 1.57 GB”. At 12:35 Amsterdam time on 9 November, Tex2 posted that “core_restofworld001” is “confirmed missing from #GTAVI Australia & New Zealand version”. He did not say how he checked, or what is in the chunk.

What Rockstar says, and what the list does not

Rockstar’s Newswire pre-load post and its Pre-Load FAQ give one official number: the pre-load needs up to 212 GB of available space depending on your device. That is a ceiling for free space, not a published chunk list, and it is the figure that stands until Rockstar or Sony say otherwise. Our file-size page tracks what is confirmed.

The list does not say what core_bvh4 and core_bvh8 are for. What they are for is an open question, not a fact from the metadata. The claim in our claims register stays unconfirmed until Rockstar or Sony publish their own breakdown.