GTA 6 release date UK — 19 November 2026

GTA 6 comes out in the UK on 19 November 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S Official. UK PlayStation and Xbox stores list £69.99 Standard and £89.99 Ultimate Store listing. New here? Start here.

GTA 6 comes out in the UK on 19 November 2026 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Same printed date as everywhere else. Rockstar did not print a UK midnight hour.

Rockstar North sits in Edinburgh. The launch date they printed is still the same date as Los Angeles: Thursday, 19 November 2026. There is no UK-only hour on Newswire. Anyone selling you “midnight on Princes Street” is selling a high-street habit, not a Support article.

What 19 November means in the UK

So “19 November” is a Thursday on Greenwich time. They did not print “when the East Coast unlocks.” The date is the date.

That is a fan conversion. It is not on rockstargames.com/VI.

Pre-load is the sentence that does carry a clock. Digital pre-load starts 12 November 2026 at local midnight. You download. You do not start the story. The November card is the pre-load checklist.

UK prices: both stores now print pounds

Store listing Re-checked 14 October: the UK PlayStation Store (store.playstation.com/en-gb) lists £69.99 Standard and £89.99 Ultimate, matching Xbox UK. Both UK listings carry a release time of 00:00 UTC on 19 November, which is midnight in the UK and 7:00 p.m. ET on 18 November. That is store data, not a Rockstar time.

Earlier pass, kept for the record

Take-Two’s 24 June sheet is in US dollars: Standard US$79.99, Ultimate US$99.99. We are not converting that into sterling.

Store listing What we did fetch: Microsoft’s Xbox UK listing for Grand Theft Auto VI printed £69.99 Standard and £89.99 Ultimate, with the upgrade add-on at £20.00. That is store copy on xbox.com/en-GB this pass. It can move. We will not invent a GAME SKU or an Argos barcode to sit next to it.

PlayStation’s UK games page — playstation.com/en-gb — printed the 19 November date in the FAQ and a 19/11/2026 footer. It did not print a pound price on that marketing page this pass. The checkout lives behind “Buy at PlayStation Store.” We will not invent the number behind the button.

Rockstar’s own storefront is still the one Take-Two named. Start at rockstargames.com/VI. High-street names that typically list a Rockstar launch — GAME, Smyths, Amazon UK — are not cited here as official SKU pages. We do not rank them.

PEGI is the board. Its PEGI 18 went up and came down

Rating check, 7 October 2026: PEGI not certified — a PEGI.info search for Grand Theft Auto VI returns “Found 0 results.” The PlayStation Store in the UK shows a PEGI 18 badge (Store listing). Reported: PEGI posted a PEGI 18 page with a detailed content note on 2 October and pulled it the same day (IGN, VGC) — PEGI page pulled. A store badge isn’t PEGI’s certificate, so we keep the labels apart. Every region: ratings.

The UK uses PEGI. Take-Two’s June no-rating-yet line is out of date: PEGI posted a PEGI 18 for Grand Theft Auto VI on 2 October 2026 and then pulled the page, so it stays Reported until PEGI puts it back (in the US, the ESRB rates it M for Mature 17+). PlayStation Support’s GTA VI offer article still says the age ratings are unconfirmed, then points at Grand Theft Auto V: PEGI 18 in Europe. That last clause is about V. The longer card is ratings.

We will not write “it’s PEGI 18” for VI. We will not paste V’s descriptors onto this box. If PEGI publishes a Grand Theft Auto VI certificate, this page gets the dated note.

Reported, week of 22 September: official Grand Theft Auto VI posters and dummy cases appeared in UK shops (IBTimes UK). Final rating: not announced at the time of the posters; see our age rating page.

Extended Look on a British clock

Thursday, 27 August 2026. August is still summer time. That arithmetic is from the official ET clock. Rockstar did not print a London row. The full table lives on the Extended Look hub.

What r/GTA6 keeps asking from the UK

The thread that will not die: will GAME do a midnight launch, and is there a disc. Rockstar printed a download-code box, not a playable Blu-ray. Physical copies go on sale from 12 November so you can type the code and pre-load. A queue on Oxford Street is not on Newswire. If GAME posts an event, that is GAME’s poster, not a Rockstar hour.

PC is the other one. There is no official PC date. There is no official PC price in pounds. The empty GPU chart is system requirements.

UK sheet, this pass

Take-Two, 24 June 2026 · Xbox UK · PlayStation UK · VI site

Times in ET

• Store listing US PlayStation and Xbox listings unlock GTA 6 at 12:00 a.m. ET on 19 November. Rockstar printed the date for the UK, not an hour.
• Estimate If the store opens the pre-load at local midnight on 12 November in the UK, that is 7:00 p.m. ET on 11 November.
• Estimate Local midnight on 19 November in the UK is 7:00 p.m. ET on 18 November. Treat it as a guide, not an official unlock time.

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