Apple held its big annual iPhone event Tuesday, exhibiting off the upcoming ultrathin iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro, AirPods Pro 3, Apple Watch Series 11, the Apple Watch SE 3 and the Apple Watch Ultra 3. There have been a number of mentions of video video games in the course of the present, however in a single sequence exhibiting off the brand new digital camera for the iPhone 17, it was exhausting to disregard that this specific shot appeared like one thing out of the upcoming Grand Theft Auto 6.
Megan Nash, product supervisor for iPhone, spoke in the course of the occasion in regards to the iPhone 17’s new 48-megapixel important digital camera that Apple calls Twin Fusion, which might take sharp pictures at full decision or take 2x crop-zoomed photographs at 24 megapixels. Behind her was an iconic backdrop of a strip from Miami that made some GTA followers surprise if possibly Apple was going to announce a take care of Rockstar Video games.
A thread on the GTA subreddit titled Did Apple just tease GTA VI on iPhone? appeared shortly after Nash’s sequence within the iPhone occasion. Most posters on the thread joked and reminded everybody that the fictional Vice Metropolis is predicated on the true Miami. The upcoming GTA 6 takes place within the fictional state of Leonida, a parody of Florida, with one of many cities gamers can go to being Vice Metropolis.
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CNET did attain out to Apple and Rockstar Video games simply in case. Neither firm instantly responded to a request for remark.
GTA 6 was slated to come back out this 12 months, however Rockstar Games announced in May that it was delayed. The brand new date is at present set for Might 26, 2026. This might imply that if there have been an iOS model of the sport, it will be playable on an iPhone 17. Despite the fact that the brand new iPhone 17 will include an A19 chip’s five-core GPU that may enhance gaming, it is unlikely it might run the subsequent GTA sport with out some modifications.
Alternatively, the iPhone Air, iPhone Professional and Professional Max have A19 Professional chips with a extra highly effective six-core GPU (at the very least for the latter two), which Apple stated has “MacBook Pro levels of compute … good for GPU-intensive AI workloads.” If Apple is evaluating the A19 Professional’s efficiency to that of a MacBook Professional (although which MacBook Professional, particularly, we do not know), it is potential GTA 6 could possibly be playable.
GTA 6 is arguably essentially the most anticipated sport coming for the present technology of consoles, and there was hypothesis that it could be priced at $100. That is a lot larger than the present price ticket of $70 for many video games, though Nintendo did begin releasing new games for $80 on its Switch 2.
Preorders for the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max and iPhone 17 Air will begin at 5 a.m. PT on Friday, Sept. 12.
