GTA 6 needs about 225 GB on Xbox, report says, and fills most of a Series S

Here is the number to plan around. Microsoft’s store catalog lists GTA 6 on Xbox Series X|S at 209.86 GiB, according to an X user, @Cokymoky69, who read it there and whose figures RockstarINTEL reported on 6 November. That is one size in two units: about 210 in the binary gigabytes Windows shows, about 225 in the decimal gigabytes drive makers use. On PlayStation, RockstarINTEL cites a reading of the store data at 210 GB, and Rockstar’s own figure, in its pre-load announcement, is “up to 212 GB depending on your device”. So the store data and Rockstar agree; the 225 is the same download written larger.

Will it fit?

A console never gives you its whole drive. The system keeps a slice, so the number on the box is not the number you get. These are the usable figures that were measured on the original consoles at launch in 2020; newer models have more room.

The usable figures are the ones Push Square (PS5) and GameSpot (Xbox Series S and X) reported from their review consoles in November 2020. The range in the Xbox rows is the unit question: which end applies depends on whether the console counts in the same gigabytes as the reports, and the download screen settles that on Tuesday. On a Series X or a PS5 it fits next to plenty of other games. On a Series S, GTA 6 alone takes close to six tenths of the usable space, so most people with that console will have to clear something first.

Make room before Tuesday

Pre-loading opens on Tuesday 10 November: at midnight local time on PS5, and at 12 a.m. GMT everywhere on Xbox. Check the free space on your console’s storage screen now, and delete or move the games you are not playing. On Xbox, games made for Series X|S can wait on an external USB drive, but they have to go back to the internal drive, or the official Seagate expansion card, before you can play them. Our unlock time page has the moment for your region.

Why the Japanese build is smaller

The same store data shows a Japanese Xbox build about 1.2 GB smaller than the global one. RockstarINTEL suggests that could mean cuts for Japan, as it says happened with GTA V, and in the same article names language and voice files as the other possible reason. Store data cannot tell those apart, and Rockstar has not said.

When pre-loading opens on Tuesday, the download screen on your console should show the real size. We will put it here as soon as we see it, next to these numbers, and the claim in our claims register moves with it.