GTA 6 Preloading Is Officially Live, Files Mention Multiplayer And PS5 Pro Features

At long last, you can now install Grand Theft Auto 6 on your console via preloading, or at least you can if you live in Australia or New Zealand. Preloading begins in all regions at midnight local time, so people in the US are almost there.

With preloading now live, people have dug through the files and found things they weren't intended to see. That includes references to things like "join Session," "launch Activity," and "launch Multiplayer Activity." People are taking these to be references to a new form of GTA Online.

Rockstar has said GTA 6 is a single-player game, but it’s expected to add some form of online multiplayer at some point. Just because "Multiplayer" was found in the game's files, that doesn't necessarily mean online functionality will be available at launch--it's likely coming sometime later.

People have theorized that GTA 6's story and Online could be separate games. …