{"id":660600,"date":"2026-06-27T05:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T05:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/660600\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T05:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T05:45:15","slug":"gta-6-is-highlighting-a-flaw-with-the-review-system-on-xbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/660600\/","title":{"rendered":"GTA 6 Is Highlighting A Flaw With The Review System On Xbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"GTA 6 Is Highlighting A Flaw With The Review System On Xbox\" href=\"https:\/\/images.purexbox.com\/9f14dbc566918\/gta-6-is-highlighting-a-flaw-with-the-review-system-on-xbox.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gta-6-is-highlighting-a-flaw-with-the-review-system-on-xbox.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"505\" alt=\"GTA 6 Is Highlighting A Flaw With The Review System On Xbox\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2026\/06\/xboxs-new-startup-animation-is-now-live-for-everyone-plus-four-other-new-features\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">amazing console features being implemented by Team Xbox<\/a> over the past few months since Asha Sharma took over, and at least in our opinion, we feel like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2021\/08\/reaction_xbox_needs_to_do_something_about_its_user_review_system\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">user review system<\/a> should get some attention as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/gta_6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GTA 6<\/a>, in particular, is highlighting a flaw with the review system on Xbox right now &#8211; the game has over 2,000 reviews already on the US version of the store, and it&#8217;s not even out for another five months.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at some examples:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/GTA6\/comments\/1uff7ss\/reviews_are_flooding_in_on_xbox\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reviews are flooding in on Xbox<\/a><br \/>by<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Weird-Judge-4578\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">u\/Weird-Judge-4578<\/a> in<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/GTA6\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GTA6<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"GTA 6 Is Highlighting A Flaw With The Review System On Xbox 2\" href=\"https:\/\/images.purexbox.com\/1e83c71e9384e\/gta-6-is-highlighting-a-flaw-with-the-review-system-on-xbox-2.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gta-6-is-highlighting-a-flaw-with-the-review-system-on-xbox-2.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"407\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"GTA 6 Is Highlighting A Flaw With The Review System On Xbox 2\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The way this works is that anyone who pre-orders a game on the Xbox Store is allowed to review it, even before the release date.<\/p>\n<p>Looking around the store at games like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/007_first_light\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">007 First Light<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/lego_batman_legacy_of_the_dark_knight\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LEGO Batman<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/forza_horizon_6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Forza Horizon 6<\/a>, it&#8217;s clear that at least some of the pre-release reviews survived for those titles, with FH6 in particular having lots of &#8220;https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/reviews&#8221; that are just talking about how hyped they are for the game (or how much they don&#8217;t care for it!).<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"GTA 6 Is Highlighting A Flaw With The Review System On Xbox 3\" href=\"https:\/\/images.purexbox.com\/55b14bc2782f6\/gta-6-is-highlighting-a-flaw-with-the-review-system-on-xbox-3.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gta-6-is-highlighting-a-flaw-with-the-review-system-on-xbox-3.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"505\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"GTA 6 Is Highlighting A Flaw With The Review System On Xbox 3\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still probably not a massive issue in the case of a game like GTA 6, especially considering how the review system sorts by &#8220;Most Helpful&#8221; and any pre-release comments will get pushed to the back once it&#8217;s actually launched, but it&#8217;s undoubtedly skewing the results at least a little bit.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, Xbox&#8217;s review system has never been particularly great \u2014 especially compared to something like Steam \u2014 and we&#8217;d love to see Asha Sharma&#8217;s team work their magic on it in the future. Ditching the pre-order reviews, highlighting more in-depth reviews and clamping down on spam would all be very welcome improvements in the future.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of the Xbox review system? Let us know down in the comments section below.<\/p>\n<p>\tRelated Games<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766613369_65_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Fraser Gilbert\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fraser is the News Editor at Pure Xbox, where he spends his time reporting on the biggest stories in the world of Xbox and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve seen some amazing console features being implemented by Team Xbox over the past few months since Asha&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,210,86,56,54,55,221532,183,695,694],"class_list":["post-660600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-gta-6","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-user-reviews","tag-xbox","tag-xbox-series-s","tag-xbox-series-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}