GTA VI editions — Standard vs Ultimate vs Vintage pack
GTA 6 comes in two editions: Standard at US$79.99 and Ultimate at US$99.99 Store listing. Any purchase before 20 November also gets the Vintage Vice City Pack Official. New here? Start here.
Two editions. One timed pack. That is the whole shop Rockstar printed. Standard is US$79.99. Ultimate is US$99.99. Those dollars are from the 24 June 2026 announcement. Pre-orders opened 25 June, midnight local. Regional storefronts set their own currency. We are not converting them for you.
The two SKUs, as printed
Store listing Rockstar Support names two editions and one upgrade. On 24 September Rockstar also started selling a US$399.99 merch box, the Vice City Collection. There is no game inside it, so it is not an edition. It gets its own row below so nobody mixes them up.
| SKU | US price (24 June) | What Support says it is | Physical |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Edition | US$79.99 | The game. PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X|S. Official | Download-code box from 12 November. No disc. |
| Ultimate Edition | US$99.99 | The game plus the Ultimate Edition Upgrade. Official | Not sold as a boxed SKU. Support is explicit. |
| Ultimate Edition Upgrade | Not given a separate Rockstar MSRP on Newswire | The locker Standard owners can buy later on PlayStation or Microsoft stores, after the Standard code is redeemed. Official | Digital add-on only. |
| Vintage Vice City Pack | Not a third edition | A pre-order / early-purchase extra. Every qualifying buy before 20 November. Official | Physical Standard pre-orders include the pack with the download code. GTA+ is the digital line. |
| Vice City Collection Merch, not a game edition | US$399.99 on the Rockstar Store | A box of 11 collectibles. Store: “Grand Theft Auto VI game sold separately.” | Ships from 19 November. 1 per person. Shipping extra. Details. |
Standard
US$79.99 as of 24 June 2026. The game.
Ultimate
US$99.99 as of the same announcement. Game plus the Upgrade locker.
Vintage cutoff
Purchases before 20 November 2026. Not Ultimate-only.
PC
Not on the official launch list. No date. No price.
Collector’s box
US$399.99 merch. No game inside. Vice City Collection.
The short Guides card is still post 72. The living shop page is the pre-order guide. November dates live on the pre-load checklist. If a SKU changes, those pages get the dated note and this one points at them.
Quick answers
How many editions are there?
Official Two: Standard (US$79.99) and Ultimate (US$99.99).
Is there a physical Ultimate?
Official No.
What is the Vintage Vice City Pack?
Official A bonus for buying before 20 November. See Vintage pack.
New guides: Price by country · Ultimate upgrade · Collector’s edition · Deluxe Edition?
Change log: desk notes, 20 October 2026
- Desk stamp: 20 October 2026. Store listing Re-checked 20 October: the US PlayStation Store still lists 19 November at 12:00 a.m. ET (05:00 UTC), US$79.99 Standard and US$99.99 Ultimate and a PS5 Pro Enhanced tag; the US Xbox Store still shows US$79.99 / US$99.99 and a US$20.00 Ultimate upgrade.
- Prices, editions and the download-code box unchanged; ESRB now rates the game M for Mature 17+ (Official).
- DualSense Limited Edition Black and White pre-orders have been live since 10 September 2026, 10:00 a.m. ET on PlayStation Direct (Black is Direct-exclusive in the US; White is also at retailers).
- See DualSense.
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Latest, 20 October 2026
How many people have pre-ordered GTA 6?
Estimate Sensor Tower estimates 6.08 million US digital pre-orders as of 13 October, worth about US$594 million, 74% on PlayStation and 26% on Xbox, per GamesIndustry.biz (20 October). It counts US digital pre-orders only, not boxed copies or other countries. Take-Two has published no number Not confirmed. More: Pre-order numbers.
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Guides card (post 72) · Pre-order guide · Pre-load checklist
The US$399.99 box is not an edition
The Goodtime State – Vice City Collection is a Rockstar Store merch box: a Macca the Gator figure, Oakley Frogskins, a New Era hat, a Leonida map poster and seven more pieces. The listing says “Grand Theft Auto VI game sold separately.” So if you want to play on 19 November, you still need Standard or Ultimate. Box plus Standard is US$479.98 before shipping and tax. Box plus Ultimate is US$499.98. Full breakdown and the backlash: Vice City Collection. All the add-ups: what GTA 6 costs you.
What Standard actually includes
The game. That is the Support sentence. Launch is still 19 November 2026 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Digital pre-load starts 12 November, local midnight. If you buy before 20 November you also get the Vintage pack. Digital pre-orders also get a month of GTA+.
Standard is not a cut-down story. Rockstar has not published a “Standard mission list” versus an “Ultimate mission list.” Ultimate adds a locker and, in Support’s words, items “uncovered behind each chapter.” That is not the same as a second campaign.
The Ultimate locker Rockstar Support printed
Post 72 refused a SKU-by-SKU hat list because the magazine card would not invent one. Support later printed names. This sheet prints those names. It does not turn “action threaded across” into a mission count. It does not add storefront flavor that Support did not name.
| Support locker line | Which SKU | Not this |
|---|---|---|
| Grand Theft Auto VI (the game) | Standard and Ultimate | A PC build. A last-gen build. Official |
| GTAVI: Ultimate Edition Upgrade | Ultimate, or the later add-on | A price Rockstar did not print on Newswire. Official |
| ’95 Grotti Cheetah | Upgrade locker | A performance sheet. An unlock hour. Official |
| Hawk & Little Morgan Revolvers | Upgrade locker | A Tommy Vercetti cameo. Flavor text is not a character confirmation. Official |
| Personalized Weapon Variants | Upgrade locker | A full armory dump. Official |
| Vice City Styles | Upgrade locker | A piece-by-piece closet. Official |
| Jason’s Safehouse Vehicles | Upgrade locker | A garage map we have not been given. Official |
| Ganado Retro Build | Upgrade locker | A parts catalog. Official |
| Rideout Customs Mod Shop | Upgrade locker | A claim that the shop exists on Standard. Official |
| Sara’s Unisex Salon | Upgrade locker | A Standard confirmation. Official |
| Shitzu Squalo | Upgrade locker | A fishing system manual. Official |
| Stock 305 Clothing Store | Upgrade locker | A Standard confirmation. Official |
| ’67 Vapid Dominator Buggy and Garage | Upgrade locker | A claim Paradise Garage is on Standard. Official |
| Electric Fang Tattoo Parlor | Upgrade locker | A tattoo count. A Standard confirmation. |
| One-Eyed Willie’s Mod Shop | Upgrade locker | A Standard confirmation. Official |
| Goodtime Gear | Upgrade locker | A full capsule inventory. Official |
| PTT Youngin$ Compound | Upgrade locker | A mission title. A member list. Official |
| Classic Car Collection | Upgrade locker | A car-by-car restore list. Official |
Support’s closer: Ultimate bonuses are “threaded across all aspects of Jason and Lucia’s story, with new items uncovered behind each chapter.” That is chaptered wording. It is not a chapter list. Critics of the twenty-dollar gap hear paid story. The company has not published a mission list. The named metal lives on the vehicles hub. The named iron lives on the weapons hub. The named clothes live on the clothing hub. The locker line Jason’s Safehouse Vehicles has its own safehouse hub.
What the Vintage pack actually is
It is not a third edition. It is not Ultimate-only. Rockstar’s list, the same list we already ran on the pre-order guide and on post 72:
| Official line | On which purchase | What it is not |
|---|---|---|
| ’55 Vapid Stanier sedan and Shore Court garage, near Ocean Beach | Any qualifying buy before 20 November | A car that only Ultimate owners get. Official |
| Outfits and hairstyles for Jason and Lucia | Same cutoff | A hat-by-hat file dump. Screenshot captions are not a locker PDF. Official |
| Exclusive tropical weapon pattern | Same cutoff | A new gun. It is a pattern they tied to the 2002 game. Official |
| One month of GTA+ | Digital pre-orders | A GTA VI multiplayer pass. It is the existing GTA+ line - GTA V, GTA Online, the Games Library. Not a promise the boxed code includes the same month. Official |
After 20 November the pack is no longer part of the offer as described. Do not write “free forever.” Do not write “DLC season pass.” Day-after-launch buyers can miss it. The pre-load page is the November card for that cutoff.
The box is a code
Physical copies contain a download code, not a disc. Official. The box goes on sale from 12 November so you can pre-load. Support says there is no physical Ultimate Edition. Standard owners who want the locker buy the Upgrade after the code is used. Anger about ownership is not evidence a playable disc SKU exists.
Pre-order guide · FAQ · Pre-load checklist
Where to start, and where not to
Start at rockstargames.com/VI. PlayStation Store and Microsoft’s store list their own SKUs. We do not rank them. We do not paste affiliate links. The locker names on this sheet match Rockstar Support’s editions article.
Do not buy a “key” from a gray market because it is five dollars cheaper. If the code fails in November, this site cannot refund you. If a stranger is selling “Ultimate unlock” as a separate file, they are selling you a problem. There is no official early access. The 12 November pre-load is a download date, not a play date.
If Standard or Ultimate changes price, or if Rockstar adds a third SKU, the pre-order guide gets the update and this page gets a dated line pointing at it. Until then: US$79.99 and US$99.99 as of 24 June 2026 (unchanged on the US PlayStation Store, checked 14 October 2026), Vintage pack before 20 November, a GTA+ month on digital pre-orders, pre-load on 12 November, and a box that is a code.
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