As a PC snob, I wanted to catch GTA 6 making console compromises. Instead, I’m in awe of the trickery

Grand Theft Auto 6.

When you spend your life gaming on a high-end PC, watching console game reveals like the GTA 6 Extended Look usually means spotting the ugly trade-offs: aggressive texture pop-in, flat lighting, messy background items and resolution scaling that melts into pixel soup during intense moments.

Then Rockstar drops 26 minutes of Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay into my lap, and the cynicism is completely replaced with “how on Earth did they do this!?”