Rockstar Spent Years Testing Alternatives to GTA 6's Weapon Wheel Before Going Back to the Circle

October 21, 2026★★★☆☆By Vice City Hub

Years of R&D to reinvent the wheel. Turns out the wheel was fine.

According to reports from preview coverage, Rockstar tried several weapon-selection layouts for GTA 6 over a period of years before returning to the familiar circular weapon wheel. The takeaway: the classic wheel survived a long internal shootout against its own replacements.

Source: VGTimes. Vice City Hub summarizes and comments; read the original for the full story.

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Rockstar Spent Years Testing Alternatives to GTA 6's Weapon Wheel Before Going Back to the Circle

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