GTA 6: Everything confirmed so far

This is the living record of everything officially confirmed about Grand Theft Auto VI. One rule governs the page: if Rockstar Games or Take-Two Interactive has not said it, shown it or filed it, it is not here. The unconfirmed stuff lives in the Rumour Mill, clearly labelled and heat-rated, and the moment any of it gets confirmed it graduates onto this page, cited to the official source rather than to whoever called it early. Last full check: 13 July 2026.

The date, the platforms, the preload

GTA 6 launches on Thursday 19 November 2026 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. That is the date Rockstar confirmed on its Newswire and the one Take-Two has repeated in its investor materials since. No PC version has been announced for launch. Rockstar has form for bringing GTA to PC well after consoles, GTA 5 took around nineteen months, but for GTA 6 nothing is confirmed, so PC talk stays in the Rumour Mill where it belongs.

Pre-orders opened on 25 June 2026 alongside the official cover art and a refreshed story synopsis. Digital preloading begins on 12 November 2026, a week ahead of launch. And because the physical edition ships with a download code rather than a disc, every single copy is a download in the end. The full story of that decision, and the reaction to it, sits on the Rap Sheet.

How we got here: the delay record

The game was originally pointed at 2025. In the first official move, Rockstar set an exact date of 26 May 2026, with a public apology for the wait. The second move pushed it six months to 19 November 2026. Since then the date has only been reaffirmed: Take-Two has repeated it in earnings materials and said plainly that the big marketing push would begin in summer 2026, which is exactly what happened. Two delays is the complete record. Anything suggesting a third is rumour until Rockstar says otherwise.

Price and editions

Two editions are confirmed. The Standard Edition is £69.99 in the UK and $79.99 in the US. The Ultimate Edition is £89.99 and $99.99. GTA 6 is the game that moved the baseline price of a blockbuster up a tier, and that is a confirmed fact rather than a grumble: the Standard price alone sits above what big releases charged before it.

• Standard Edition: the full game, £69.99 UK, $79.99 US
• Ultimate Edition: the game plus exclusive extra content, £89.99 UK, $99.99 US
• Pre-order bonus: the Vintage Vice City Pack, for copies secured before 20 November 2026
• Digital pre-orders additionally include one month of GTA+

What the extra £20 actually buys, and whether it is worth it for you, is broken down properly in our editions guide. The short version: the Ultimate content is real but not essential, and nothing about it changes the story you play.

The story and the leads

GTA 6 has two playable protagonists, Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos, and Lucia is the first playable female lead in the series' modern era. Rockstar frames the setup plainly: an easy score goes wrong, and the pair are pulled into a criminal conspiracy stretching across the state of Leonida, forced to rely on each other to survive. The tone is modern day, not the eighties: Rockstar's own material leans hard into the influencer-saturated, phones-out version of the sunshine state, and the second trailer made clear the story is built around the two of them as a couple, not as parallel lives.

Leonida, region by region

The setting is the state of Leonida, Rockstar's Florida, with Vice City, its Miami, as the beating heart. Rockstar's official site names the regions itself, which is why they can sit on this page:

• Vice City: the main urban sprawl, beachfront, Art Deco and high-rises, officially framed as Vice City, USA
• Leonida Keys: the island chain to the south, where the story begins
• Grassrivers: the swamplands, Rockstar's take on the Everglades
• Port Gellhorn: the working port and industrial stretch
• Ambrosia: rural and industrial country
• Mount Kalaga National Park: the wilderness

That list is the confirmed geography in full. How big the map actually is, in square kilometres or against GTA 5, has never been stated by Rockstar. The community estimates are genuinely clever work, and they live in the Rumour Mill with a heat rating, because clever is not the same as confirmed. The interactive map in our app holds the same line: sixteen landmarks verified against official material at the last count, and nothing pinned that Rockstar has not shown.

The trailers and the music

Two trailers exist. Trailer 1 arrived in December 2023, introduced Lucia and Vice City, and rode Tom Petty's Love Is a Long Road hard enough to send the song back up the charts. Trailer 2 landed in May 2025, was captured entirely in-game on a PlayStation 5 according to Rockstar, and went deeper into the story and the state. Its soundtrack confirmed the musical direction: the Pointer Sisters' Hot Together front and centre, with Wang Chung, Tammy Wynette, Zenglen and Jay Ferguson around it. Six songs are officially confirmed through the trailers so far, and every trailer song in series history has ended up on the in-game radio, though that pattern is history rather than a promise. The full running list lives in our soundtrack piece and grows with every drop of official material.

What is deliberately not on this page

No leaked anything. No map-size estimates. No unlock times, because Rockstar has not announced one; the countdown page carries that answer the second it exists. No PC date. No online mode details, because Rockstar has not detailed one. No review scores, obviously. If you have seen a confident claim about any of those elsewhere, you have seen a rumour wearing a suit. Check the Rumour Mill: if it is worth tracking, it is there with a heat rating and its source named.

How this page works

This is a living document. Every claim on it traces to Rockstar Games or Take-Two Interactive: the Newswire, the official site and channels, the trailers, or investor filings and calls. When new official material lands, this page updates the same day and the last-checked date at the top moves. When we get something wrong, we correct it visibly and say what changed. The complete rules, including how heat ratings are set and exactly where the line on leak coverage sits, are published in our editorial policy. That is the deal: one page you can cite without checking our homework, because the homework is public.