There’s a brand new rumor floating round {that a} Nintendo Swap port of GTA V could also be on the way in which. Not less than, that’s what a person on X who covers rumors and leaks associated to the GTA sequence is suggesting.
Based on @Budzcario, Rockstar appears to be engaged on a Swap model of the fan-favorite GTA V. Data stems from the lately leaked supply code on GTA VI and different Rockstar recordsdata. One piece of the code references the Nintendo Swap alongside its NX64 codename. And a few are taking this to imply that Rockstar is certainly engaged on a Swap port for the fifth GTA installment.
In any case, Purple Useless Redemption was ported to Swap earlier this yr. So why not GTA V? The 2 video games had been launched inside a number of years of one another and on the identical era console. Even when GTA V was launched on the very finish of that life cycle. Certain, something is feasible. Rockstar could possibly be engaged on a Nintendo Swap port of GTA V. However such an endeavor appears unlikely. What appears extra believable is that these references are doubtlessly from outdated plans to convey the sport to Swap which will have finally been scrapped.
GTA V Nintendo Swap rumor could also be primarily based on outdated plans
To not rain on anybody’s parade as a result of, fairly truthfully extra video games on the Swap are welcomed. But it surely’s necessary to maintain expectations in examine when these kinds of rumors floor. Sure, the leaked GTA V supply code mentions the Nintendo Swap a few instances. However that alone ought to make anybody skeptical. As a result of as an alternative of being referenced many extra instances, the Nintendo Swap is barely referenced twice. You’ll be able to see a kind of mentions within the supply code identified by @Budzcario.
Rockstar might need had plans to develop GTA V for Swap at one level. However one person on Reddit who has seen the supply code suggests the sport was by no means in growth for Nintendo’s darling moveable console.
Over on the r/GamingLeaksAndRumors subreddit, person u/RafaelSw lays out a brief reasoning of why they assume the sport was seemingly by no means in growth within the first place. One of many major components revolves across the simply two Nintendo Swap references in comparison with the console’s “NX64” codename. Which seems fairly a number of extra instances. The hypothesis is that Rockstar had deliberate to port the sport to the NX64 however didn’t know on the time what which may imply. For the reason that Swap hadn’t been introduced but.
As soon as the studio found that NX64 could be operating on the ARM structure, plans had been “seemingly scrapped” says GameRant. It might probably’t be stated for sure that the Swap received’t get a port of GTA V. However given the console’s age, its troubles with operating extra fashionable titles like MK1, and the vastness of GTA V’s panorama, Nintendo’s growing old {hardware} may very properly wrestle to deal with the sport.