It's official: you can actually play GTA 6 on your Xbox One console. That's the news from developers Rockstar Games, who published an article on their site this afternoon confirming that the game will be fully playable natively on PS5, PS5 Pro, Series X and Series S - and streamable via Xbox Cloud Gaming to Xbox Series and Xbox One consoles.

As expected, the streaming version of the game accessible this way will be the Xbox Series S version, which normally comes with certain graphics settings, resolution and/or performance compromises versus the full-fat Series X release. However, it's also the only way to play this quintessentially current-gen game on last-gen consoles.

Here's the full quote from Rockstar:

The game will also be available via XBOX Cloud Gaming on XBOX Series X|S and XBOX One consoles, utilizing XBOX Series S graphics settings. And as with all cloud streaming, connection speeds and other technical factors may influence game performance in ways that would not impact local gameplay. GTAVI will also fully support Remote Play on PlayStation and XBOX.

The cloud version of GTA 6 is critical because it allows owners of last-gen consoles the chance to play the most hyped game of the current generation - in a time when console hardware has gotten repeatedly more expensive. However, cloud streaming does come at its own cost, with Microsoft bundling a limited number of cloud streaming hours into the various tiers of its Xbox Game Pass tiers and also allowing players without Game Pass to pay as they go, with 50 hours of play costing $12.

It'll be fascinating to see how the cloud version of GTA 6 fares when it arrives alongside every other version on November 19th, especially in terms of image quality and input latency.

If you missed it, Rockstar recently confirmed worldwide regional release times for the game, and pre-loads are already available for digital customers or for code-in-box pre-order customers that have already received their boxes.

Would you play GTA 6 this way? What do you make of the fact that cloud streaming capabilities are exclusive to Xbox - although PlayStation players can also stream from their own consoles, eg to PS Portal devices? Let us know in the comments below.