I want 60 as much as anyone who grew up on GTA V's performance mode. I also remember how Red Dead 2 felt at 30 and still ate a weekend. Frame rate is not the whole game. It is just the part Twitter will fight about until January.
Why 30 is the grown-up answer right now
Nelson was not doing a marketing dance. He was talking about the build they have. Digital Foundry's read is that Leonida is CPU-hungry: crowds, traffic, weather, two protagonists, cops thinking about you. That is the stuff that makes a world feel alive and also the stuff that murders a 60fps budget.
The Extended Look is gorgeous in motion. Gorgeous in motion at 30 can still look like a movie. Gorgeous at an unlocked 40-50 with hitching can look like a mess. I would rather Rockstar ship a stable 30 than a chaotic 'performance' mode they are not sure about.
PS5 Pro and the 60fps hopium
A leak doing the rounds says Pro hits 60. Cool if true. It is a leak. Rockstar has not put a Pro feature list on the store page. If you are buying a Pro just for GTA VI, you are betting with your wallet, not quoting a spec sheet.
Series X and base PS5 are the machines they have to hit in November. That is the mass-market promise. Everything else is gravy.
What about first person?
Previews keep asking. Launch plans are still being argued in headlines more than in a support article I can point at. Cabin cameras in the footage are close enough that a first-person driving view feels plausible. Plausible is not a toggle in the pause menu.
I will update this the minute Rockstar puts camera options in writing. Until then, buy the game for the third-person world they keep showing.