GTA 6 pre-orders, price and Ultimate Edition: everything Rockstar confirmed

Take-Two's press release of June 24, 2026 set out the commercial shape of the launch. Pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI opened at midnight local time on June 25, 2026, with the standard edition at $79.99 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.¹

Editions and bonuses

• Standard edition: $79.99, single-player experience, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.¹
• Grand Theft Auto VI: Ultimate Edition: $99.99, adding premium vehicles, weapons and apparel threaded through Jason and Lucia's story.¹²
• Every pre-order and every purchase before November 20, 2026 includes the Vintage Vice City Pack.¹
• Digital pre-orders also include a free month of GTA+, redeemable immediately for the GTA+ Games Library.¹

What is actually in the two bonus packs

The Vintage Vice City Pack, reported in detail by TheSixthAxis, centres on a 1955 Vapid Stanier sedan and a Shore Court garage near Ocean Beach with a weapon locker and a fence stash, plus a period-styled outfit for each protagonist and a retro palm-tree weapon pattern.⁴

The Ultimate Edition's exclusive content goes considerably further, adding several vehicles including a customised pickup and a boat, two garages, a clothing store and a salon, engraved sidearm variants, and cosmetic items that unlock progressively as the story advances, rather than all at once at the start of the game.⁴

Pre-loading and where to buy

Digital pre-orders can start pre-loading on November 12, 2026, a week before launch. The physical release, which contains a download code in the box, also goes on sale November 12 so that disc buyers can pre-load too. Rockstar listed the PlayStation Store, Microsoft Store, its own Rockstar Games Store and global retailers as the outlets.¹

The official site now leads with a pre-order call to action and the November 19, 2026 date, and carries a Plays Best On PlayStation 5 line.³

Why the Ultimate Edition unlocks over time

Rather than handing every bonus vehicle, weapon and outfit to Ultimate Edition owners at the start of the campaign, Rockstar structured the content to unlock progressively as Jason and Lucia's story advances. That design choice keeps early-game pacing consistent between editions while still rewarding the higher price tier across the full length of the campaign rather than front-loading every advantage.⁴

What the pricing signals

$79.99 for the standard edition is a five-dollar increase over Grand Theft Auto V's original launch price and matches where most other big-budget console games have settled this generation, while the $99.99 Ultimate Edition sits at a premium that Take-Two's own leadership later called well-received once early pre-order data came in.¹

The free month of GTA+ bundled into digital pre-orders is also worth reading as a retention tool rather than pure launch marketing: it gives new and returning players immediate access to the GTA+ Games Library months before Grand Theft Auto VI itself is playable, which keeps pre-order customers engaged with Rockstar's ecosystem across the entire pre-loading and launch window rather than only on release day.¹

How this fits the wider release calendar

Opening pre-orders on June 25, 2026 gave buyers just under five months to commit before the November 19 launch, a longer runway than either of Grand Theft Auto VI's two release delays had given fans between a fixed date and its intended launch. That extra lead time also lines up with the November 12 pre-load window, giving Rockstar a full week between pre-loading opening and the game actually unlocking, longer than is typical for a release this size.¹³