Grand Theft Auto VI — confirmed ahead of launch

Desk stamp: 12 September 2026. Launch still 19 November 2026 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. No official PC date. Pre-load opens 12 November at local midnight. Extended Look already aired.

Rockstar has confirmed two leads, one Florida-shaped state, a November date, and a storefront. The rest of the internet is trailers, previews, and folklore. This page is the confirmed spine. Deep dives live on the guides and longreads linked below.

What Rockstar has actually printed

Lucia Caminos and Jason Duval are the dual protagonists. Rockstar’s public synopsis: an easy score goes wrong and they end up on the darkest side of the sunniest place in America, inside a conspiracy across Leonida. Lucia is framed as a recently released Leonida Penitentiary inmate; Jason as an ex-Army Keys runner. Other names on the official site include Cal Hampton, Boobie Ike, Dre’Quan Priest, Real Dimez, Raul Bautista, and Brian Heder — a cast list, not a plot bible.

Leonida is Florida with the serial numbers filed off. Public materials and Trailer 2 show Vice City plus Grassrivers, the Leonida Keys, Ambrosia, Mount Kalaga National Park, and Port Gellhorn. Rockstar calls the project a single-player experience and “the biggest, most immersive evolution of the series yet.” That is marketing language with a date attached, not a promise of Online on day one.

Keep the Bonnie-and-Clyde nickname in the rumor column. Rockstar’s words are couple, score, conspiracy, sun.

Compact sheet: What Rockstar has confirmed. Dated ladder: official timeline. Story hub: story. Cast hub: characters.

How we got to 19 November

Trailer 1 (5 December 2023) carried a 2025 window. In May 2025 Rockstar moved to 26 May 2026. In early November 2025 it moved again to 19 November 2026, citing polish players “expect and deserve.” Those are the official slips. Folklore about firings as the cause of the second delay is not a Rockstar press release — treat it as context, not proof.

Strauss Zelnick has kept repeating November 2026 in investor settings. Until Rockstar prints a new date, the clock on this site stays 19 November.

Money, boxes, and the week before launch

Standard is US$79.99. Ultimate is US$99.99 and digital-only: vehicles, weapons, apparel, shops, and a compound threaded through Jason and Lucia’s story. You can upgrade later after redeeming Standard. Physical retail is a download code in the box, not a Blu-ray — boxes support pre-load from 12 November. Every purchase before about 20 November includes the Vintage Vice City Pack; digital pre-orders also get a month of GTA+ (that month is for GTA Online / classics, not a VI multiplayer unlock).

Buyer pages: Ultimate vs Standard longread · edition picker · preload week guide · physical / code-in-box · Vintage pack.

Trailers and the Extended Look

Two cinematic trailers exist. Trailer 2 was cutscenes and gameplay Rockstar said were captured on a PlayStation 5. The Extended Look (27 August 2026) is the long gameplay/presentation beat — Netflix earlier in the US afternoon ET, official YouTube later that night. It is not a third trailer and it is not a review.

Watch order: trailers then Extended Look · Extended Look hub · trailers.

Systems the previews keep arguing about

Since Extended Look and the Famitsu / press wave, the mass-reader fights are practical: Heat vs Wanted stars, optional romance, carjacking tools, fuel, L3 sprint, trunk loadouts, DualSense feel on PS5. Those are preview-backed systems guides — not Newswire patch notes. We label Confirmed / Reported / Unverified on each page.

• Heat & Wanted longread
• Carjacking & Waink
• Optional romance
• Fuel & refuel
• L3 sprint
• Trunk & weapons
• DualSense immersion (features — not the Limited Edition merch chase; that is DualSense hub)

PC, Online, and other honest blanks

Rockstar has not announced a PC date. Console-first is deliberate Take-Two language (“core consumer”). History says wait months after console — not a calendar invite. GTA Online for VI is not announced; the launch SKU language is single-player. Install size is still unpublished. Map square miles are fan work until the game loads.

PC deep dive: PC console-first longread · PC hub · platforms · Online.

The 2022 leak, without making it the review

September 2022 put unfinished footage on the internet. Rockstar confirmed a network intrusion. Early builds are not the disc. If you learned Lucia’s name from stolen Slack, you learned it the wrong way — the official introduction was December 2023. We do not host leak video.

Leak hygiene: leak tracker.

How to wait without inventing the game

Play the games that taught Rockstar a city, a state, and a heist. Then, in November, see what they kept. Until 19 November the official story is still short: the deck is stacked, the score goes wrong, and they have each other. That is enough to print. The rest is weather.

FAQ · Calendar · Launch checklist · What we know · Official Rockstar page

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