Grand Theft Auto VI launches on Thursday 19 November 2026 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. That date has held since Rockstar announced it on 6 November 2025, and it is the second one the game has had — the first, Fall 2025, became 26 May 2026 in May 2025 before moving again. This page keeps the confirmed schedule separate from the rumours that attach themselves to every one of those dates: what Rockstar has stated and when, what pre-orders actually commit to, when pre-loading opens, when the Vintage Vice City Pack stops being included, and why there is still no PC date to report. Everything below traces to a dated Newswire post or a store listing.

The date, and how firm it is

Rockstar announced 19 November 2026 on 6 November 2025, in a signed note that apologised for adding time and said the extra months would let the studio finish the game with the level of polish players expect. Take-Two chief executive Strauss Zelnick has publicly maintained confidence in the schedule since. Pre-orders opened on 25 June 2026 at midnight local time, which is a harder commitment than a Newswire post: money has changed hands against that date in every territory.

Two delays

The game was pointed at Fall 2025 with no specific date until 2 May 2025, when Rockstar moved it to 26 May 2026 and said it was very sorry the date was later than expected. On 6 November 2025 it moved again to 19 November 2026. The gap between the original window and the current date is roughly thirteen months. Neither announcement gave a reason beyond finishing the game, and neither referenced the leaks.

Platforms, and the PC question

PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, confirmed on every Rockstar page and every store listing. There is no announced PC version, no PC date and no PC store page. Rockstar shipped Grand Theft Auto V on consoles in September 2013 and on PC in April 2015, and Red Dead Redemption 2 on consoles in October 2018 and PC a year later; the series has a pattern, and the pattern is not a promise. Anything you read giving a PC date is reading the pattern, not a source.

Editions and what is in them

Two editions. The Standard Edition is $79.99 in the United States and £69.99 in the United Kingdom. The Ultimate Edition is $99.99 and £89.99, and adds a collection of vehicles, weapons and apparel threaded through Jason and Lucia’s story — Rockstar’s own media kit names a ’95 Grotti Cheetah, a Squalo, the Hawk & Little Morgan revolvers and a Wyman car collection among them. Zelnick has said the Ultimate Edition is outselling the Standard in pre-orders.

Every pre-order, and every purchase made before 20 November 2026, includes the Vintage Vice City Pack: a ’55 Vapid Stanier, a set of period outfits and hairstyles, and a weapon pattern. Digital pre-orders also include one month of GTA+.

Pre-load and physical copies

Digital pre-orders can start downloading on 12 November 2026, a week before launch. Physical copies reach shelves on the same day and contain a download code in the box rather than the game itself — which means a disc bought on 12 November buys you the pre-load window, not an early play session.

A single-player game

Rockstar’s pre-order announcement calls Grand Theft Auto VI a single player experience, in those words. No online mode has been announced, dated or priced. Given that GTA Online launched a fortnight after Grand Theft Auto V, the phrasing is doing deliberate work: it describes what ships on 19 November and commits to nothing about what follows.

What thirteen months of delay changed

The practical consequence is that most of what people quote about this game describes an older version of it. Leaked footage from the August 2026 release runs on a build outlets place around 2023 to 2024, which is to say a build made while the game was still aiming at Fall 2025. Two announcements and roughly two development years sit between that footage and the disc. Systems seen there — six wanted stars, a stamina bar, fuel gauges — are evidence of what Rockstar was trying, not of what ships.

It also changed the retail picture. Pre-orders that opened on 25 June 2026 are against a date announced in November 2025, which is unusually long for a Rockstar title and is why the Vintage Vice City Pack cutoff exists at all: Rockstar needed a bonus that stayed live from June through the first day of general sale rather than a launch-week promotion.

How firm 19 November looks from here

Firmer than any date this game has had. Money has moved in every territory since June, physical stock has a 12 November street date that retailers have already been given, and Take-Two chief executive Strauss Zelnick has repeated confidence in the schedule publicly since pre-orders opened — including the detail that the $99.99 Ultimate Edition is outselling the $79.99 Standard, which is a statement no publisher makes about a date it expects to move.

The remaining risk is the ordinary one: Rockstar has moved this game twice, both times with about six months of notice, and both announcements arrived as a short signed note with no warning. If a third move happens, the pattern says it happens by roughly the end of September and not in the last weeks before launch.

An Extended Look, 27 August 2026

The next official thing to happen is An Extended Look, which premieres on Netflix on 27 August 2026 at 3 p.m. ET and arrives on the Rockstar Games YouTube channel and the official Grand Theft Auto VI site at 9 p.m. ET the same day. It is the first extended gameplay presentation Rockstar has scheduled, and it landed nine days after the CyberLeek clips went online — an order of events that has not gone unnoticed.

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