Rockstar Games confirmed Grand Theft Auto VI will release on September 25, 2026, exclusively on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC simultaneously, ending

years of speculation about whether the PC version would be delayed as it was for GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2.

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Key Developments

The confirmation came via a Rockstar newswire post that included a final trailer showing Miami-inspired Vice City, dual protagonists Lucia and Jason, and story

beats suggesting a heist narrative involving both characters before splitting into diverging story threads.

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Background and Context

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Take-Two Interactive, Rockstar’s parent company, said GTA VI has broken all pre-order records across every platform by multiples, without specifying numbers. Industry analysts estimate 10-15 million pre-orders globally.

What Experts Are Saying

GTA VI’s story mode features the largest open world in Rockstar’s history.

Rockstar said the Vice City map is 50 percent larger than GTA V’s Los Santos and includes a fully explorable Everglades-inspired region called the

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The dual protagonist system allows players to switch between Lucia and Jason during free roam and certain missions.

Some missions require controlling both characters via quick swapping; others lock to a single character for narrative reasons. The approach expands on GTA V’s three-protagonist system.

GTA Online returns as a separate free download for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S players who own a copy of GTA VI.

Rockstar said GTA Online 2, as it has been unofficially called by the community, will feature a new Vice City server alongside a legacy

Los Santos server running GTA V Online content.

GTA VI releases September 25, 2026. Rockstar said story DLC, which was absent from GTA V, is planned for GTA VI beginning in 2027.

The company cited the success of Red Dead Redemption 2’s Epilogue in justifying continuing investment in single-player narrative post-launch.

Early reviews are embargoed until September 23, 2026, 48 hours before launch.

Rockstar has not provided review copies yet as of June 2026; a reviewer event is scheduled for late August.

Grand Theft Auto VI releases on September 25, 2026, simultaneously on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and PC.

There is no last-generation version for PS4 or Xbox One. No Switch 2 version has been announced, though Rockstar has not explicitly ruled it out.

GTA VI is set in Vice City, a fictional version of Miami and South Florida.

The map includes a city core based on Miami Beach and downtown Miami, suburban areas, a rural region called the Grass Flats based on

the Florida Everglades, and Keys-inspired island chains accessible by boat and helicopter.

GTA VI features two protagonists: Lucia, a woman recently released from prison who is the primary player character at the start of the game,

and Jason, her partner who becomes playable after the first act.

Rockstar has described Lucia as the narrative focus, with Jason providing a secondary perspective on the same story events.

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