The team at Digital Foundry put sections of the announcement trailer up against game footage from the PlayStation 3 edition -- granted, the least capable of last gen versions -- to see what differences players can expect to experience (youtu.be/pBkCB1zRIx4).
Indeed, "GTA 5 simply didn't run very well on PS3 or 360," DF's John Linneman reminded readers in a column for Eurogamer. "Sure, for those particular platforms, it was an incredibly impressive game, but frame-rate rarely managed to stick close to the 30fps target leading to a rather inconsistent experience."