GTA VI leaks reveal day-night cycle duration - it's several times longer than in GTA V

In August, several gameplay recordings of Grand Theft Auto VI were leaked online. One observant player reviewed the footage and decided to calculate how long the day-night cycle would be in the new Rockstar Games title.

According to Miserable-Price-7484's observations, the developers in GTA VI decided to significantly increase the duration of the in-game day. He noticed in the leak that "one in-game minute now passes in 6 real seconds instead of 2, as it was in GTA IV and GTA V."

He decided to extrapolate this to a full cycle and found: 60 in-game minutes — 6 minutes of real time => 12 in-game hours — 72 minutes (1 hour 12 minutes) => 24 hours or one in-game day — this is 144 minutes (2 hours 24 minutes). For comparison, in GTA V, a day lasted less than an hour: only 48 real minutes.

According to comments, many players would be happy to see this change in the release version of GTA VI. Users, like piomat100, felt that in-game days in GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2 "flew by too quickly."

Grand Theft Auto VI is scheduled for release on November 19 this year on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S consoles. Rockstar Games and Take-Two have not yet announced the release date or release window for the PC version of the game.