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By Will Sawyer published 15 March 22
Migrate your GTA Online character to PS5 and Xbox Series X
Need to know how to migrate your GTA Online character from PS4 to PS5 or Xbox One to Xbox Series X? Here’s all the information you’ll need to set yourself up for more criminal capers on your new-gen console. GTA Online has its own updated, and now standalone, re-release that will allow players to benefit from faster load times, improved textures, and a resolution up to 4K. If you need to know how to transfer GTA 5 Story Mode progress to PS5 and Xbox Series X, we’ve got tips on that too.
If you want to continue playing as your old-gen GTA Online character on your new-gen console, you’ll need to migrate your character when you log in. This is definitely something you’re going to want to do if you’ve played many hours of GTA Online and levelled up your character and bought them the best gear. Here’s how you migrate your GTA Online profile and characters from PS4 to PS5 and Xbox One to Xbox Series X to avoid starting from scratch.The process of migrating your GTA Online profile so that you can download it on another console is pretty straightforward, but you’ll need to make sure that your old and new-gen GTA Online accounts share the same Rockstar Social Club account so that they’re linked. You’ll also need to the new version of the game, and you can find out how to get GTA 5 Enhanced Version here.
Provided you’ve got that sorted, you should be good to go to migrate your PS4 or Xbox One profile over to PS5 or Xbox Series X and the enhanced GTA Online edition. These profiles are automatically uploaded, so you should be able to see them on your new-gen console by following the steps below:There are a few other important things to know when going through the GTA Online migration process. Firstly, do not close GTA Online or turn off your console when profile migration is happening as you’ll risk corrupting the save data. Also, this migration is a one-time process and cannot be undone or repeated on the same console – it seems that migrating your profile from a PS4 or Xbox One to a PS5 or Xbox Series X will completely remove all GTA Online data associated with the PS4 or Xbox One, so there’s no going back either. If you’re wondering, ‘can you play GTA Online on PS5 with PS4 players?‘, profile migration does allow for cross-progression or crossplay. However, all GTA Online characters within your chosen profile will be transferred, so you can migrate to new-gen with up to two characters, but you can delete one if you’d like to try out the previously mentioned Career Builder. Finally, note that while you can migrate your profile to different console platforms entirely – PS4 to Xbox Series X, for example – any GTA Online money you’ve paid for with real money as a microtransaction will not be transferred by doing this. If you want GTA Online money you’ve paid for to be transferred too, you must migrate to the new-gen console within the same family – PS4 to PS5, for example. Although, any money you’ve earned through gameplay will be totally safe and will be transferred with your save, regardless of which platform you migrate to.
While you can turn down the option to migrate your profile as soon as you log in to GTA Online on your PS5 or Xbox Series X, we’re haven’t done it ourselves to confirm the consequences of doing so. We assume that you’ll essentially start from scratch and create a new character as normal, but we don’t know for certain if you’ll get the option to migrate your profile at any time afterwards. Be aware that if can migrate later and choose to do so, your migrated profile will completely overwrite your new GTA Online character and you will lose all progress and GTA$.
If you’re having problems with migrating your GTA Online profile over to your PS5 or Xbox Series X, such as seemingly endless black screens, don’t fret as many other players are experiencing the same issue. The long-lasting black screens seem to appear when your profile is being migrated, so you just need to be patient and wait for that to complete and move on. The migration process will probably take a long time for some players as Rockstar battles server issues on their end, likely due to so many players trying to get into GTA Online at once. 
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Will Sawyer is a freelance guides writer at GamesRadar+ who works with the rest of the guides team to give readers great information and advice on the best items, how to complete a particular challenge, or where to go in some of the biggest video games. Will joined the GameRadar+ team in August 2021 and has written about service titles, including Fortnite, Destiny 2, and Warzone, as well as some of the biggest releases like Halo Infinite, Forza Horizon 5, and Dying Light 2.
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