GTA 6 release date Canada — 19 November 2026

GTA 6 comes out in Canada on 19 November 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S Official. Xbox Canada lists CAD $109.99 Standard and $139.99 Ultimate Store listing. New here? Start here.

Store listing Canada is not “the US listing with a maple leaf.” Microsoft’s Canadian store printed its own stickers: Standard CAD $109.99, Ultimate CAD $139.99, upgrade add-on CAD $30.00. We fetched those on the Xbox Canada page. We did not invent them from an exchange-rate widget.

Six clocks, including a half-hour

November is standard time. Toronto and Montreal sit on Eastern. Winnipeg on Central. Calgary and Edmonton on Mountain. Vancouver on Pacific. Halifax on Atlantic. St. Rockstar printed the date, not a row for Signal Hill.

Arithmetic, labeled as arithmetic: 19 November 00:00 ET would already be 01:30 NST. That is not a Rockstar unlock. Do not write “00:01 in every province.”

Pre-load on 12 November is local midnight — Support’s wording. John’s. You still wait until the 19th to play. Pre-load checklist.

Where Canadians actually click

Take-Two named PlayStation Store, Microsoft Store, Rockstar Games Store, and global retailers. The Canadian URLs that exist:

• Xbox Canada (en-CA) — CAD prices above. Showed ESRB Rating Pending when fetched 25 Sep; ESRB.org now lists M for Mature 17+.
• PlayStation Canada (en-ca) — FAQ still says 19 November 2026. A pound or euro figure is not on that page. A CAD figure was not printed on the marketing page this pass.
• rockstargames.com/VI

Best Buy, Walmart Canada, and EB Games / GameStop Canada typically list a Rockstar launch. We do not have an official retailer SKU page in this pass and will not invent one. PlayStation also ships a French-Canadian storefront path. We are not pasting a converted price into it.

ESRB north of the border

Rating check, 7 October 2026: the PlayStation Store in Canada shows ESRB Mature 17+ (Store listing), matching ESRB.org. In Europe, PEGI not certified: PEGI.info shows no entry, PlayStation Stores show PEGI 18, and PEGI’s own 18 page was posted 2 October and pulled (Reported, PEGI page pulled). Every region: ratings.

Canada uses the ESRB for these consoles. Take-Two’s June no-rating-yet line is out of date: the ESRB now rates Grand Theft Auto VI M for Mature 17+ on ESRB.org (Official). When we fetched Xbox Canada on 25 September it still showed the old “Rating Pending Likely Mature 17+” line; the US store has since switched to the final M badge. The long card is ratings.

PEGI is not the Canadian board. A UK screenshot is not your certificate.

Extended Look from Toronto

27 August 2026 — already aired. Netflix 3:00 p.m. ET was 3:00 p.m. in Toronto and 12:00 p.m. in Vancouver. YouTube and the VI site at 9:00 p.m. ET was 9:00 p.m. in Toronto and 6:00 p.m. in Vancouver. August was still daylight time. The rest of the map is on the Extended Look hub.

What Canadians ask on r/GTA6

The Canadian version of the price fight: why is Standard CAD $109.99 when the US sheet says US$79.99. Because Microsoft printed a Canadian sticker. It is not this desk converting dollars. If the listing moves, the store moves. We will not invent a “fair” CAD number.

PC is not on the launch list here either. No date. No Canadian PC SKU. Platforms. Confirmed: confirmed. FAQ: faq. Calendar: calendar.

Canadian stickers we fetched

Two columns. Two documents. We did not convert one into the other.

Hard stop — Canada

No invented Newfoundland launch hour. No invented “fair” CAD conversion. No claim every province unlocks at 00:01 ET. Local midnight is Support’s pre-load wording on the 12th. US ET primary stays on the US page.

Take-Two, 24 June 2026 · Xbox Canada · ESRB

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Launch hour: US store listings unlock GTA 6 at 12:00 a.m. ET on 19 November Store listing; outlets reading the Canadian PlayStation Store report the same 12:00 a.m. ET Reported. Rockstar has not published a launch hour Not confirmed; Rockstar Support’s “local midnight” wording is about the 12 November pre-load only.

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