That first trailer for GTA 6? Gorgeous. I saw a flamingo with more detailed feathers than my actual pillow. But here’s the kicker: trailers are often rendered on high-end PCs or with careful camera angles that hide the messy stuff. (You know, like when you take a selfie and crop out the laundry pile behind you?) Rockstar is famous for this—they showed Red Dead Redemption 2 in trailers that looked like a wild west documentary, and then we all played it with occasional frame drops.
So, yes, the fidelity will be jaw-dropping, but don’t expect every single leaf to be perfectly rendered while you’re driving a stolen sports car at 200 mph into a lamppost. That’s where the magic of optimization meets the cold, hard reality of console hardware.
