What the screenshot showed
On 4 November, Power Up Gaming shared screenshots of a PlayStation France product page for Grand Theft Auto VI with a section headed Enhanced for PS5 Pro.[1] The section listed PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution and advanced ray tracing next to the Tempest 3D Audio, SSD loading and DualSense lines already used for the PS5 version.[1][2] PC Guide reported that the page was removed after the screenshot surfaced.[2] Nothing on the official pages checked for this piece confirms those two features: the PlayStation Blog's 3 November launch post does not mention the PS5 Pro, and the live French store listing carries the badge with no feature description.[3][4]
The katana line is the tell
The haptics text on the same page described feeling Atsu's katana strikes through the controller, a line that belongs to Ghost of Yotei rather than to Jason and Lucia.[1] Power Up Gaming, which shared the screenshot, says it has not verified the original listing and treats the features as unconfirmed, adding that reports of the page being taken down do not settle whether the text was accurate, unfinished or simply wrong.[1]
What the live page actually carries
PlayStation's French store page for the game, read on 4 November, shows a PS5 PRO ENHANCED label and a single line reading Optimisé pour la PS5 Pro with no description of what that optimisation covers.[3] The badge itself is official and identifies support for the hardware; it does not state a resolution, a ray-tracing mode or a frame rate.[3]
Sony's launch post skips the Pro
PlayStation's 3 November post on pre-download set out four preparation steps covering account set-up, pre-ordering, storage and accessories, and closed by promising more information as launch approaches.[4] It does not mention the PS5 Pro at all, which leaves the reported upgrade list without a first-party source.[4]
Where the ray-tracing claim comes from
The two headline features are not equally new. PC Guide notes that ray tracing for Grand Theft Auto VI had already been established in a Digital Foundry analysis months earlier, so that half of the listing echoed an existing finding rather than introducing one.[2] PSSR is the claim that was actually new, and it is the one the live store page leaves undescribed.[2][3]
Why the distinction matters
PSSR is the Pro's own upscaler, and Sony's lighter QSSR for the standard console arrived on 1 October with no indication that GTA VI would use it, which is the kind of detail a deleted page cannot establish.[2] The reported text also gave no resolution target, no graphics mode and no frame-rate figure, so even taken at face value it was not a specification.[1][2] Grand Theft Auto VI still launches on 19 November with preload from 10 November,[4] and on the Pro the store badge is the only part confirmed.[3]
Sources and verification
4 sources, all from the press. Last accessed 4 November 2026. Each numbered marker in the story links to its entry here.
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