Rockstar veteran says GTA 4 PS5 port wouldn't "be easy," but the effort "would be tiny compared to building a new game"

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There's currently no way to play Grand Theft Auto 4 on PS5, and there are some notable compromises when playing it on Xbox Series X. Fans have been clamoring for a proper, current-gen GTA 4 remaster for ages, and one former Rockstar Games developer says that such a port certainly seems doable – if not exactly a freebie for the developers.

"It won’t be easy," Obbe Vermeij, who worked at Rockstar during the original development of GTA 4, says of a potential port on Twitter. "There will have been loads of changes in RAGE between 2008 and now. But still; the effort of porting gta4 would be tiny compared to building a new game."

RAGE, of course, is the Rockstar Advanced Game Engine, which is the tool the studio has been building most of its games on since the 2006 release of Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis. The engine has naturally been upgraded in the years that have followed, and some form of it is believed to be powering even GTA 6, but as Vermeij says, it's not exactly the same tool it was in the '00s. Upgrading an old version of the game to the modern version of RAGE for a current-gen port wouldn't be trivial – at least, that's what Vermeij seems to be suggesting.

Dustin Bailey
Dustin Bailey
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.

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