A fake 'GTA VI' file size screenshot sent the internet into a frenzy
I'm not sure I've ever seen an unreleased video game generate more anxiety on the internet than Grand Theft Auto VI.
That's exactly what happened this week, as a doctored screenshot of the game's Xbox Store page featuring a laughably large file size went viral on the site formerly known as Twitter. User @TheCanadianGTR posted the image early on Christmas Eve, claiming that the game would have a storage footprint of 676.7GB on an Xbox console.
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The signs that this is fake are numerous and obvious. For starters, the official Xbox storefront page for the game doesn't list a storage size at all. This is likely due to the fact that GTA VI isn't launching for another year; it's very possible Rockstar Games doesn't even know what the file size will be yet. Beyond that, while some bigger games like recent Call of Duty releases have approached 200GB in size, absolutely nothing at this point has even come close to 600GB, which is more or less the entirety of the functional hard drive space on a base PS5 or Xbox console. GTA VI is probably going to be large, but I can guarantee that it won't be triple the size of the largest existing big-budget games.
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Oh, and the screenshot is clearly a 6-7 joke, so there's that, too.
Anyway, despite all of those signs, X users are still freaking out, even at the time of publication.
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This is an object lesson in "don't believe everything you see on the internet." Just remember that it will be at least a year or so before any of us are playing GTA VI, and in that time, a lot of BS will appear online about it. If it didn't come from Rockstar itself, it's probably not worth engaging with.
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Alex Perry is a tech reporter at Mashable who primarily covers video games and consumer tech. Alex has spent most of the last decade reviewing games, smartphones, headphones, and laptops, and he doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon. He is also a Pisces, a cat lover, and a Kansas City sports fan. Alex can be found on Bluesky at yelix.bsky.social.
