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The GTA Series is a Game Preservation Nightmare

Rockstar Games doesn't seem to care about making classic Grand Theft Auto games available to play on PS5 and other current platforms

The GTA Series is a Game Preservation Nightmare
Image: Polygon

Quick summary

Rockstar Games doesn't seem to care about making classic Grand Theft Auto games available to play on PS5 and other current platforms

What we know so far

Automatic note by LuaCat Games, built from what we know about the coverage (who reported it, how many sites, the story’s history) — not a translation or copy of the source.

The platforms named are PlayStation 5. So far only Polygon has run it, but that's a newsroom that checks what it publishes. GTA came out in 1997 and never left: that's 29 years of turning up in every conversation about it. In the 30 days before this one, 170 other GTA stories ran here.

Bottom line: You can treat this as firm, just keep an eye on updates.

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Games
Published
09/27/2026 09:00
Updated
09/27/2026 09:11
Sources
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Relevance
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Timeline: GTA

What’s come out about GTA so far, newest first.

  1. "What if London existed in the Grand Theft Auto universe?" One fan has answered with a GTA-style map of the cityEurogamer
  2. I have broken GTA 5 by installing so many mods that the game only launches in windowed mode nowPC Gamer · Release
  3. Steam Dev’s Viral GTA Clone Is The Perfect PS2 ThrowbackPolygon
  4. GTA 6 Has an 'Advanced' Weather System, but How Will It Work?IGN
  5. GTA 6 Won't Officially Break Clair Obscur's Big GOTY RecordPolygon

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