While GTA 6 is currently all set to release simultaneously on both PS5 and Xbox Series X|S when it eventually launches next November (a year as of yesterday, hang in there, folks), that wasn't a luxury Xbox always had. In fact, one former Xbox exec says Rockstar needed convincing that Microsoft's console wasn't "going to be a flop" in order to get the series on there.
Speaking in a new interview with Eurogamer for the Xbox 360's anniversary, Peter Moore – former corporate vice president of Microsoft's home and entertainment division who was responsible for all Xbox marketing and operations – talks about bringing GTA to Xbox. GTA 4 was the first Grand Theft Auto game to arrive on Xbox (specifically, the 360) at the same time as the rival PlayStation release (on a date Moore got a tattoo to advertise) – before that, the releases of Vice City and GTA 3 respectively arrived a year and two years after they did on Sony's consoles. The series' earlier entries never arrived on Microsoft's hardware at all.
