Xbox One Owners Can Play GTA 6 On Launch Day — Here’s How

Just a week stays till “Grand Theft Auto VI” ends up being playable on November 19, ending the 13-year wait given that “GTA 5” debuted in 2013. Not everybody will have the ability to play the video game at launch, nevertheless; at release, “GTA 6” will just be natively playable on the Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 consoles, with a PC release coming at some point next year. Xbox One owners desiring to leap in on day one can still do so without updating to a more recent console.

The outdated 2013 hardware inside the Xbox One just does not have adequate processing power to run “GTA 6” by itself, however you can utilize Xbox Cloud Gaming to stream gameplay to your console. Doing this likewise lets you bypass needing to preload the video game or have 212 GB readily available on your console, which are both things you require to do before setting up “GTA 6” on the Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5.

Xbox Cloud Gaming comes bundled with Xbox Game Pass. As of November 2026, customers no longer get limitless regular monthly hours with Xbox Game Pass: the$9.99 Essential membership comes with 5 hours per month, the $14.99 Premium one enables 10 hours, and the$ 22.99 Ultimate tier still just supplies 15 hours. Users desiring more will quickly have the ability to purchase additional hours– $3.99 for 10 hours, $7.99 for 25 hours, and 50 hours of Xbox Cloud Gaming playtime for $11.99. It’s unworthy getting the Game Pass simply to play “GTA 6,” as you can purchase Xbox Cloud playtime hours individually even without it.