GTA 6: release date, price, characters, map and every detail Rockstar has confirmed

Release date and platforms

Rockstar is now taking pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI with a firm launch date. It arrives on 19 November 2026 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Preloading opens on 10 November, nine days earlier, at local midnight on PS5 and at midnight GMT on Xbox, for digital purchases and for boxed-version codes that reach their owners in time.

There is no announced PC edition or official PC release window. PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch 2 versions have not been confirmed either. There are no other platforms.

Retailer listings for any of those versions are getting ahead of Rockstar. If the missing PC version forces a hardware decision, our PS5, PS5 Pro and Xbox Series comparison for GTA 6 sits alongside a separate guide to whether waiting for PC makes sense.

Rockstar's preload FAQ says the game needs up to 212GB of free space, depending on the console. Times and steps are in how big GTA 6 is and when the preload starts.

Price and editions

The Standard Edition costs €79.99 in Spain and the Ultimate Edition is €99.99. Ultimate adds vehicles, weapons, workshops, clothing and businesses distributed through Jason and Lucia's chapters, while the upgrade is also sold separately for €20, so you do not need to decide everything when you pre-order.

Rockstar's physical version costs €79.99 but contains no disc. It is the game equivalent of buying a movie box and finding a download entitlement inside, the package can sit on a shelf, but the game cannot be lent or resold. Orders and purchases made before 20 November include the Vintage Vice City Pack, while the month of GTA+ is reserved for digital purchases. Our GTA 6 price and editions guide breaks down the full list.

Pre-ordering secures the extras and the preload, but it does not lower the price or provide early access. If those bonuses do not matter to you, waiting until launch costs nothing essential.

Jason, Lucia and the cast

GTA 6 follows Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos after an apparently easy score or robbery goes wrong and pulls them into a conspiracy stretching across Leonida. Rockstar describes their bond in plain terms. They are “forced to rely on each other more than ever if they want to make it out alive.” Jason grew up around grifters, joined the Army and ended up working for local drug runners in the Keys, while Lucia leaves prison determined to secure the better life her mother imagined for her back in Liberty City.

The official cast now includes Jason's paranoid friend Cal Hampton, veteran smuggler Brian Heder, businessman Boobie Ike, producer Dre'Quan Priest, bank robber Raul Bautista and rap duo Real Dimez, formed by Bae-Luxe and Roxy. These are no longer anonymous faces from a trailer, although Rockstar has not explained how much playable involvement each supporting character will have.

Vice City and Leonida

GTA 6 returns to Vice City, but the city is only one part of the fictional state of Leonida. Rockstar's official site currently tours six areas. They are Vice City, Leonida Keys, the Grassrivers wetlands, former industrial coast Port Gellhorn, sugar town Ambrosia and Mount Kalaga National Park in the north.

Rockstar still has not given a square-mileage figure, but it has now offered an official comparison. In Edge's October 29 cover story, the studio says Leonida's total landmass, Vice City included, is nearly as large as the playable maps of GTA IV, GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2 combined, or roughly twice the size of GTA V's map. Rockstar North co-head Aaron Garbut adds that there are an order of magnitude more interiors than in the studio's previous games, without putting a number on it. Community reconstructions are still useful for piecing together roads and landmarks from official footage, and our Leonida and Vice City map guide keeps clear what is official and what is not.

According to Rockstar Games founder Sam Houser in the 2023 announcement, the project aims to “push the limits of what’s possible in highly immersive, story-driven open-world experiences.” At INSERT FUTURE, we think Leonida's variety can move it closer to that promise than a merely larger Vice City. We cannot wait to play it now... what about you?

How it plays: what Rockstar North has revealed

Rockstar North's leads walked Edge through several systems the studio had never confirmed. Buses and trains work as real transport, and every vehicle has a fuel gauge and an engine-health readout, though the studio says filling up is a quick stop. Police log your description, clothes and weapon, whether you had an accomplice and whether a camera caught you, so changing outfits or splitting from your partner helps you shake them.

A criminal profile running from Professional to Irredeemable judges how you handle each situation and affects the story, Rockstar says, without explaining how. Jason and Lucia's relationship is tracked on a four-point scale that grows with the time they spend together. Studio co-head Rob Nelson says the game is finished.

What remains unconfirmed

Rockstar has yet to detail an online mode, cross-play between PS5 and Xbox Series, campaign length or a PC edition. Nor has it promised that mechanics seen in the recent leaks will reach the finished game unchanged, because its statement authenticated the videos, not every claim attached to them. Edge's cover story, the last major preview before launch, does not mention a PC version either, since the studio only showed the game running on PS5.

As of 30 October, the useful answer is compact. GTA 6 starts at €79.99, launches on 19 November for PS5 and Xbox Series, and still has no PC announcement.