“My character transferred” and “I can join my friend” describe two different events. One concerns moving a saved profile; the other concerns connecting players to a compatible live session.
Rockstar's character-transfer guidance allows specified older-console migrations, but says profiles cannot move between PS5 and Xbox Series X|S or from PlayStation or Xbox console families to PC. That is a migration rule, not a general statement that accounts can move everywhere.
The PC example makes the difference clear
For PC, Rockstar's Legacy-to-Enhanced migration guide says progress is retained in Legacy after migration but subsequent progress is not synchronized. Its PC upgrade announcement also says Legacy and Enhanced players are separated and friends need the same version.
Those documents address three separate things: an eligible transfer, the relationship between the resulting saves, and who can share sessions. Treating the first as proof of the other two produces the misconception.
Read a claim as a set of permissions
For any platform claim, ask which action is actually supported: signing into an account, copying progress, keeping progress synchronized, or playing together. An account name appearing on two devices proves very little about the last three.
The same discipline helps when reading a video's title. A successful migration demonstration can verify the particular route shown. It cannot establish other routes, shared matchmaking or permanent synchronization unless those capabilities are separately documented.
The practical conclusion also matters when evaluating GTA VI predictions: an existing game's migration system cannot establish a future game's multiplayer design. Migration alone does not prove crossplay. The current documentation must explicitly support the particular connection or synchronization claim being made.
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