{ "dataset": "NeonPulse GTA 6 Evidence Desk — claim ledger", "schemaVersion": "2.0.0", "dataVersion": "2026-09-15", "version": "2026-09-15", "license": "CC BY 4.0 — free to reuse with attribution to neonpulsehq.com", "canonicalUrl": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed", "endpoint": "https://neonpulsehq.com/claims.json", "generatedFrom": "src/data/claims.ts joined to the verified source registry by source URL", "counts": { "claims": 26, "active": 20, "superseded": 3, "withdrawn": 1, "disputed": 2, "historyEntries": 56 }, "vocabulary": { "evidenceTier": { "official": "First-party source: Rockstar, Take-Two, a platform holder, a government or court record, or a direct on-record statement.", "reported": "The named original publisher reported it. Attributed to that outlet, not treated as official.", "estimate": "An analyst, retailer or modelled figure. The origin is named.", "rumor": "Circulating claim with a named origin and no first-party support. Repetition never upgrades it.", "disproved": "Traced and found unsupported. Kept so the debunk stays citable.", "outdated": "Was accurate; superseded by a newer record.", "unknown": "Tracked but not yet classified." }, "lifecycle": { "active": "The current answer.", "superseded": "Replaced by a newer record; see supersededBy and replacementClaim.", "withdrawn": "Traced and found unsupported.", "disputed": "Named origin, no first-party support." }, "sourceType": "official | court-record | record-body | reporting | secondary | unregistered", "changeType": "created | verified | corrected | status_changed | superseded — declared per history entry, never inferred. Only `verified` leaves lastMateriallyChangedAt unchanged." }, "limitations": [ "lastCheckedAt is the date a human re-checked the source, not a guarantee the source has not changed since.", "lastMateriallyChangedAt reflects only changes that moved the evidence tier; a re-check that changed nothing does not update it.", "An \"official\" tier means a first-party source said it. It does not mean the underlying fact cannot change — announced dates have moved before.", "Absence of a claim from this ledger is not evidence that no such fact exists. This is a tracked set, not an exhaustive one.", "A `rumor` tier means a circulating claim with a named origin and no first-party confirmation. It does NOT mean the claim has been shown to be false — nothing in this ledger asserts a negative." ], "claims": [ { "id": "launch-date", "claim": "GTA 6 launches Thursday, November 19, 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. The PlayStation listing additionally carries a PS5 Pro Enhanced badge.", "evidenceTier": "official", "lifecycle": "active", "topic": "release", "region": "global", "platform": "PS5 / Xbox Series X|S", "scope": "Announced Nov 6, 2025 with an apology for the added wait; store listings and FY27 guidance are built on this date. Confirmed ≠ unchangeable: the date has moved once before. Most recently restated by Take-Two in its Q1 FY2027 results release of August 7, 2026 — twice, in the CEO's quoted remarks and in the company's own future-lineup table — so the quarter that could have moved the date instead put it back on the record.", "primarySource": { "url": "https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/ak3ak31a49a221/grand-theft-auto-vi-is-now-set-to-launch-november-19-2026", "title": "Grand Theft Auto VI is Now Set to Launch November 19, 2026", "publisher": "Rockstar Games Newswire", "type": "official", "publishedAt": "2025-11-06", "inRegistry": true }, "secondarySources": [ { "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/946581/000162828026054580/ttwo1q27earningsrelease.htm", "title": "Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Reports Results for Fiscal First Quarter 2027", "publisher": "Take-Two Interactive (SEC Form 8-K, Exhibit 99.1)", "type": "official", "publishedAt": "2026-08-07", "inRegistry": true } ], "firstPublishedAt": "2025-11-06", "lastCheckedAt": "2026-09-15", "lastMateriallyChangedAt": "2026-08-22", "expiresAt": "2026-11-19", "supersedes": [ "prior-date-may-26" ], "supersededBy": null, "replacementClaim": null, "reviewerId": "editor-in-chief", "changeLog": [ { "changedAt": "2026-09-15", "type": "verified", "previousStatus": "official", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "rockstargames.com/VI read in a browser: \"COMING NOVEMBER 19, 2026 · PlayStation 5 · Xbox Series X|S\". Two platforms named, no PC. Claim unchanged. Method: an agent driving a browser and reading the rendered page. NOT a human review; reviewerId is left as originally recorded. Receipt: audit/p2-content/SOURCE-RECEIPTS-2026-09-15.md.", "sourceUrl": "https://www.rockstargames.com/VI" }, { "changedAt": "2026-07-19", "type": "created", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Initial ledger entry from Newswire post" }, { "changedAt": "2026-08-22", "type": "corrected", "previousStatus": "official", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Attribution corrected, date unchanged. The claim previously read \"on PS5, PS5 Pro and Xbox Series X|S\", which presents three launch platforms. The cited Newswire post names exactly two — PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S — and so does the pre-order module on rockstargames.com/VI. PS5 Pro appears in this repository only as a PS5 Pro Enhanced badge on the PlayStation Store listing, which is a Sony enhancement programme marker on a PS5 SKU, not a separate platform. Found by the 2026-08-22 official-video evidence pass, which read Rockstar first-party text directly.", "sourceUrl": "https://www.rockstargames.com/VI" }, { "changedAt": "2026-08-08", "type": "corrected", "previousStatus": "official", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Evidence strengthened, claim unchanged. Take-Two's Q1 FY2027 results release restates November 19, 2026 in two places, so it is added as a secondary source and named in the evidence note. Recorded because the most common question put to this record — whether the August 7 results would move the date — now has a first-party answer.", "sourceUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/946581/000162828026054580/ttwo1q27earningsrelease.htm" } ], "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#launch-date" }, { "id": "prior-date-may-26", "claim": "The launch date was previously May 26, 2026, announced May 2, 2025.", "evidenceTier": "outdated", "lifecycle": "superseded", "topic": "release", "region": "global", "scope": "Superseded Nov 6, 2025 by the Nov 19 date — the only announced-date move on record.", "primarySource": { "url": "https://www.gtabase.com/articles/gta-6/gta-vi-officially-delayed-now-releasing-on-may-26-2026", "title": "GTA VI Officially Delayed, Now Set To Release May 26, 2026", "publisher": "GTABase", "type": "reporting", "publishedAt": "2025-05-02", "inRegistry": true }, "secondarySources": [], "firstPublishedAt": "2025-05-02", "lastCheckedAt": "2026-07-22", "lastMateriallyChangedAt": "2025-11-06", "supersedes": [], "supersededBy": "launch-date", "replacementClaim": "GTA 6 launches Thursday, November 19, 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. The PlayStation listing additionally carries a PS5 Pro Enhanced badge.", "reviewerId": "editor-in-chief", "changeLog": [ { "changedAt": "2025-05-02", "type": "created", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Date announced" }, { "changedAt": "2025-11-06", "type": "superseded", "previousStatus": "official", "newStatus": "outdated", "reason": "Superseded by November 19, 2026", "sourceUrl": "https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/ak3ak31a49a221/grand-theft-auto-vi-is-now-set-to-launch-november-19-2026" } ], "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#prior-date-may-26" }, { "id": "coming-2025", "claim": "Trailer 1's announcement said 'Coming 2025'.", "evidenceTier": "outdated", "lifecycle": "superseded", "topic": "release", "region": "global", "scope": "An open window, never a dated commitment; superseded by both specific dates.", "primarySource": { "url": "https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/8978kok9385a82/grand-theft-auto-vi-watch-trailer-1-now", "title": "Grand Theft Auto VI - Watch Trailer 1 Now", "publisher": "Rockstar Games Newswire", "type": "official", "publishedAt": "2023-12-05", "inRegistry": true }, "secondarySources": [], "firstPublishedAt": "2023-12-05", "lastCheckedAt": "2026-07-22", "lastMateriallyChangedAt": "2025-05-02", "supersedes": [], "supersededBy": "prior-date-may-26", "replacementClaim": "The launch date was previously May 26, 2026, announced May 2, 2025.", "reviewerId": "editor-in-chief", "changeLog": [ { "changedAt": "2023-12-05", "type": "created", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Announced with Trailer 1" }, { "changedAt": "2025-05-02", "type": "superseded", "previousStatus": "official", "newStatus": "outdated", "reason": "Specific date (May 26, 2026) announced" } ], "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#coming-2025" }, { "id": "preorders-open", "claim": "Pre-orders opened June 25, 2026, at midnight local time, region by region.", "evidenceTier": "official", "lifecycle": "active", "topic": "preorder", "region": "global", "scope": "The June 24 post announced the June 25 opening; updated note confirms global availability.", "primarySource": { "url": "https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/5171972o3ak5oa/pre-order-grand-theft-auto-vi-on-june-25", "title": "Pre-Order Grand Theft Auto VI on June 25", "publisher": "Rockstar Games Newswire", "type": "official", "publishedAt": "2026-06-24", "inRegistry": true }, "secondarySources": [ { "url": "https://www.take2games.com/ir/news/rockstar-games-announces-pre-orders-grand-theft-auto-vi", "title": "Rockstar Games Announces Pre-Orders for Grand Theft Auto VI", "publisher": "Take-Two Interactive (Investor Relations) / Rockstar Games", "type": "official", "publishedAt": "2026-06-24", "inRegistry": true } ], "firstPublishedAt": "2026-06-24", "lastCheckedAt": "2026-09-15", "lastMateriallyChangedAt": "2026-07-19", "supersedes": [], "supersededBy": null, "replacementClaim": null, "reviewerId": "editor-in-chief", "changeLog": [ { "changedAt": "2026-09-15", "type": "verified", "previousStatus": "official", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Take-Two IR release of June 24, 2026 re-read: \"pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI will begin on June 25, 2026, at midnight local time\". Claim unchanged. Method: an agent driving a browser and reading the rendered page. NOT a human review; reviewerId is left as originally recorded. Receipt: audit/p2-content/SOURCE-RECEIPTS-2026-09-15.md.", "sourceUrl": "https://www.take2games.com/ir/news/rockstar-games-announces-pre-orders-grand-theft-auto-vi" }, { "changedAt": "2026-07-19", "type": "created", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Initial ledger entry" } ], "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#preorders-open" }, { "id": "vvcp-offer", "claim": "All pre-orders AND purchases before November 20, 2026 include the Vintage Vice City Pack. This is a purchase cutoff that includes launch-day purchases, not a pre-order deadline.", "evidenceTier": "official", "lifecycle": "active", "topic": "preorder", "region": "global", "scope": "First-party wording: 'All pre-orders and purchases before November 20'. The separate, narrower condition: one month of GTA+ applies to DIGITAL pre-orders specifically. Do not blend the two.", "primarySource": { "url": "https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/5171972o3ak5oa/pre-order-grand-theft-auto-vi-on-june-25", "title": "Pre-Order Grand Theft Auto VI on June 25", "publisher": "Rockstar Games Newswire", "type": "official", "publishedAt": "2026-06-24", "inRegistry": true }, "secondarySources": [ { "url": "https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/4QfG4FmZCf5W1gS8jy4UVT/grand-theft-auto-vi-platform-editions-and-versions", "title": "Grand Theft Auto VI Platforms, Editions, and Versions", "publisher": "Rockstar Games Customer Support", "type": "official", "publishedAt": "2026-06-24 (Last Updated)", "inRegistry": true } ], "firstPublishedAt": "2026-06-24", "lastCheckedAt": "2026-09-15", "lastMateriallyChangedAt": "2026-07-23", "expiresAt": "2026-11-20", "supersedes": [], "supersededBy": null, "replacementClaim": null, "reviewerId": "editor-in-chief", "changeLog": [ { "changedAt": "2026-09-15", "type": "verified", "previousStatus": "official", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Rockstar Support editions page (their Last Updated: August 18, 2026) re-read: digital pre-orders and purchases \"prior to November 20, 2026\" include the Vintage Vice City Pack; the GTA+ month is listed for digital only and absent from the physical list. Take-Two IR says the same. Claim unchanged. Method: an agent driving a browser and reading the rendered page. NOT a human review; reviewerId is left as originally recorded. Receipt: audit/p2-content/SOURCE-RECEIPTS-2026-09-15.md.", "sourceUrl": "https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/4QfG4FmZCf5W1gS8jy4UVT/grand-theft-auto-vi-platform-editions-and-versions" }, { "changedAt": "2026-07-19", "type": "created", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Initial entry" }, { "changedAt": "2026-07-23", "type": "corrected", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Wording corrected: pre-orders AND purchases (was narrowed to pre-orders only) — independent review 2026-07-23" } ], "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#vvcp-offer" }, { "id": "editions-two", "claim": "Rockstar and the platform stores currently list two editions: Standard $79.99 and Ultimate $99.99. No Collector's Edition has been announced as of 2026-07-25.", "evidenceTier": "official", "lifecycle": "active", "topic": "editions", "region": "US pricing", "scope": "The two listed editions are official. The Collector's Edition line is an absence-of-announcement statement (dated), not a claim of non-existence: the official editions rundown lists only Standard/Ultimate/upgrade.", "primarySource": { "url": "https://www.take2games.com/ir/news/rockstar-games-announces-pre-orders-grand-theft-auto-vi", "title": "Rockstar Games Announces Pre-Orders for Grand Theft Auto VI", "publisher": "Take-Two Interactive (Investor Relations) / Rockstar Games", "type": "official", "publishedAt": "2026-06-24", "inRegistry": true }, "secondarySources": [ { "url": "https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/4QfG4FmZCf5W1gS8jy4UVT/grand-theft-auto-vi-platform-editions-and-versions", "title": "Grand Theft Auto VI Platforms, Editions, and Versions", "publisher": "Rockstar Games Customer Support", "type": "official", "publishedAt": "2026-06-24 (Last Updated)", "inRegistry": true } ], "firstPublishedAt": "2026-06-24", "lastCheckedAt": "2026-09-15", "lastMateriallyChangedAt": "2026-07-25", "supersedes": [], "supersededBy": null, "replacementClaim": null, "reviewerId": "editor-in-chief", "changeLog": [ { "changedAt": "2026-09-15", "type": "verified", "previousStatus": "official", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Rockstar Support lists Standard and Ultimate only; rockstargames.com/VI and the US PlayStation Store show the same two at $79.99 and $99.99 (PlayStation Store US read the same day). No third edition anywhere first-party. Claim unchanged. Method: an agent driving a browser and reading the rendered page. NOT a human review; reviewerId is left as originally recorded. Receipt: audit/p2-content/SOURCE-RECEIPTS-2026-09-15.md.", "sourceUrl": "https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/4QfG4FmZCf5W1gS8jy4UVT/grand-theft-auto-vi-platform-editions-and-versions" }, { "changedAt": "2026-07-19", "type": "created", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Initial ledger entry" }, { "changedAt": "2026-07-25", "type": "corrected", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Reworded from \"exactly two / no Collector's Edition appears\" to a dated absence-of-announcement statement; absence of an announcement is not proof of non-existence." } ], "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#editions-two" }, { "id": "no-disc", "claim": "The boxed physical edition contains a download code, not a disc.", "evidenceTier": "official", "lifecycle": "active", "topic": "editions", "region": "global", "scope": "Install requires an internet connection even though the campaign is single-player.", "primarySource": { "url": "https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/4QfG4FmZCf5W1gS8jy4UVT/grand-theft-auto-vi-platform-editions-and-versions", "title": "Grand Theft Auto VI Platforms, Editions, and Versions", "publisher": "Rockstar Games Customer Support", "type": "official", "publishedAt": "2026-06-24 (Last Updated)", "inRegistry": true }, "secondarySources": [], "firstPublishedAt": "2026-06-24", "lastCheckedAt": "2026-09-15", "lastMateriallyChangedAt": "2026-07-19", "supersedes": [], "supersededBy": null, "replacementClaim": null, "reviewerId": "editor-in-chief", "changeLog": [ { "changedAt": "2026-09-15", "type": "verified", "previousStatus": "official", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Rockstar Support re-read: \"A disc will not be included in the box\"; physical version is a download code. Claim unchanged. Method: an agent driving a browser and reading the rendered page. NOT a human review; reviewerId is left as originally recorded. Receipt: audit/p2-content/SOURCE-RECEIPTS-2026-09-15.md.", "sourceUrl": "https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/4QfG4FmZCf5W1gS8jy4UVT/grand-theft-auto-vi-platform-editions-and-versions" }, { "changedAt": "2026-07-19", "type": "created", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Initial ledger entry" } ], "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#no-disc" }, { "id": "preload-nov-12", "claim": "Digital pre-load opens November 12, 2026; boxed copies ship from the same date.", "evidenceTier": "official", "lifecycle": "active", "topic": "release", "region": "global", "scope": "Physical buyers install from the code in the box, so their pre-load depends on delivery.", "primarySource": { "url": "https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/5171972o3ak5oa/pre-order-grand-theft-auto-vi-on-june-25", "title": "Pre-Order Grand Theft Auto VI on June 25", "publisher": "Rockstar Games Newswire", "type": "official", "publishedAt": "2026-06-24", "inRegistry": true }, "secondarySources": [ { "url": "https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/4QfG4FmZCf5W1gS8jy4UVT/grand-theft-auto-vi-platform-editions-and-versions", "title": "Grand Theft Auto VI Platforms, Editions, and Versions", "publisher": "Rockstar Games Customer Support", "type": "official", "publishedAt": "2026-06-24 (Last Updated)", "inRegistry": true } ], "firstPublishedAt": "2026-06-24", "lastCheckedAt": "2026-09-15", "lastMateriallyChangedAt": "2026-07-19", "expiresAt": "2026-11-12", "supersedes": [], "supersededBy": null, "replacementClaim": null, "reviewerId": "editor-in-chief", "changeLog": [ { "changedAt": "2026-09-15", "type": "verified", "previousStatus": "official", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Rockstar Support re-read: \"pre-load will begin at local midnight on November 12, 2026\"; physical version \"available starting November 12\". Claim unchanged. Method: an agent driving a browser and reading the rendered page. NOT a human review; reviewerId is left as originally recorded. Receipt: audit/p2-content/SOURCE-RECEIPTS-2026-09-15.md.", "sourceUrl": "https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/4QfG4FmZCf5W1gS8jy4UVT/grand-theft-auto-vi-platform-editions-and-versions" }, { "changedAt": "2026-07-19", "type": "created", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Initial ledger entry" } ], "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#preload-nov-12" }, { "id": "single-player-launch", "claim": "GTA 6 is currently described by Rockstar as a single-player experience. No multiplayer or successor online mode has been announced.", "evidenceTier": "official", "lifecycle": "active", "topic": "online", "region": "global", "scope": "Precision boundary: 'not announced' is NOT 'officially ruled out'. Rockstar has not excluded a future online mode; it simply has not announced one.", "primarySource": { "url": "https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/5171972o3ak5oa/pre-order-grand-theft-auto-vi-on-june-25", "title": "Pre-Order Grand Theft Auto VI on June 25", "publisher": "Rockstar Games Newswire", "type": "official", "publishedAt": "2026-06-24", "inRegistry": true }, "secondarySources": [ { "url": "https://www.take2games.com/ir/news/rockstar-games-announces-pre-orders-grand-theft-auto-vi", "title": "Rockstar Games Announces Pre-Orders for Grand Theft Auto VI", "publisher": "Take-Two Interactive (Investor Relations) / Rockstar Games", "type": "official", "publishedAt": "2026-06-24", "inRegistry": true } ], "firstPublishedAt": "2026-06-24", "lastCheckedAt": "2026-09-15", "lastMateriallyChangedAt": "2026-07-23", "supersedes": [], "supersededBy": null, "replacementClaim": null, "reviewerId": "editor-in-chief", "changeLog": [ { "changedAt": "2026-09-15", "type": "verified", "previousStatus": "official", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Take-Two IR release re-read: the game \"features a single-player experience\". No online mode named on rockstargames.com/VI the same day. Claim unchanged. Method: an agent driving a browser and reading the rendered page. NOT a human review; reviewerId is left as originally recorded. Receipt: audit/p2-content/SOURCE-RECEIPTS-2026-09-15.md.", "sourceUrl": "https://www.take2games.com/ir/news/rockstar-games-announces-pre-orders-grand-theft-auto-vi" }, { "changedAt": "2026-07-19", "type": "created", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Initial entry" }, { "changedAt": "2026-07-23", "type": "corrected", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "evidenceNote sharpened: not-announced vs ruled-out distinction (independent review)" } ], "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#single-player-launch" }, { "id": "no-pc", "claim": "No PC version has been announced.", "evidenceTier": "official", "lifecycle": "active", "topic": "hardware", "region": "global", "platform": "PC", "scope": "Official page lists PS5 and Xbox Series X|S only. Historical console→PC gaps (GTA 5 ~19mo, RDR2 ~13mo) are analysis, not announcement.", "primarySource": { "url": "https://www.rockstargames.com/VI", "title": "Grand Theft Auto VI - Rockstar Games (official game page)", "publisher": "Rockstar Games", "type": "official", "publishedAt": null, "inRegistry": true }, "secondarySources": [], "firstPublishedAt": "2023-12-05", "lastCheckedAt": "2026-09-15", "lastMateriallyChangedAt": "2026-07-19", "supersedes": [], "supersededBy": null, "replacementClaim": null, "reviewerId": "editor-in-chief", "changeLog": [ { "changedAt": "2026-09-15", "type": "verified", "previousStatus": "official", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "rockstargames.com/VI read in a browser: platforms shown are PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S; the string \"PC\" does not appear. Claim unchanged. Method: an agent driving a browser and reading the rendered page. NOT a human review; reviewerId is left as originally recorded. Receipt: audit/p2-content/SOURCE-RECEIPTS-2026-09-15.md.", "sourceUrl": "https://www.rockstargames.com/VI" }, { "changedAt": "2026-07-19", "type": "created", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Initial ledger entry" } ], "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#no-pc" }, { "id": "protagonists", "claim": "The protagonists are Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos; the setting is the state of Leonida with regions including Vice City, Leonida Keys, Grassrivers, Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia and Mount Kalaga.", "evidenceTier": "official", "lifecycle": "active", "topic": "characters", "region": "global", "scope": "The Only in Leonida page is the richest official character/region source; supporting cast also named there.", "primarySource": { "url": "https://www.rockstargames.com/VI/only-in-leonida", "title": "Grand Theft Auto VI — Only in Leonida (people and places)", "publisher": "Rockstar Games", "type": "official", "publishedAt": null, "inRegistry": true }, "secondarySources": [], "firstPublishedAt": "2025-05-06", "lastCheckedAt": "2026-07-22", "lastMateriallyChangedAt": "2026-07-19", "supersedes": [], "supersededBy": null, "replacementClaim": null, "reviewerId": "editor-in-chief", "changeLog": [ { "changedAt": "2026-07-19", "type": "created", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Initial ledger entry" } ], "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#protagonists" }, { "id": "trailer1-record", "claim": "Trailer 1 (December 4, 2023) set the Guinness record for most-viewed video game reveal in 24 hours (93M+ views).", "evidenceTier": "official", "lifecycle": "active", "topic": "trailers", "region": "global", "scope": "YouTube premiere Dec 4; the Newswire post is dated Dec 5 — cite the upload for the premiere date.", "primarySource": { "url": "https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/407081-most-viewed-videogame-reveal-on-youtube-in-24-hours", "title": "Most viewed videogame reveal trailer on YouTube in 24 hours", "publisher": "Guinness World Records", "type": "record-body", "publishedAt": "2023-12-05", "inRegistry": true }, "secondarySources": [ { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdBZY2fkU-0", "title": "Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1", "publisher": "Rockstar Games (official YouTube channel @RockstarGames)", "type": "official", "publishedAt": "2023-12-04", "inRegistry": true } ], "firstPublishedAt": "2023-12-04", "lastCheckedAt": "2026-07-22", "lastMateriallyChangedAt": "2026-07-19", "supersedes": [], "supersededBy": null, "replacementClaim": null, "reviewerId": "editor-in-chief", "changeLog": [ { "changedAt": "2026-07-19", "type": "created", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Initial ledger entry" } ], "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#trailer1-record" }, { "id": "trailer2-date", "claim": "Trailer 2 released May 6, 2025, captured on PS5 hardware.", "evidenceTier": "official", "lifecycle": "active", "topic": "trailers", "region": "global", "scope": "Tagline 'Explore Vice City and beyond'.", "primarySource": { "url": "https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/3928aaa9471o3a/grand-theft-auto-vi-watch-trailer-2-now", "title": "Grand Theft Auto VI — Watch Trailer 2 Now", "publisher": "Rockstar Games Newswire", "type": "official", "publishedAt": "2025-05-06", "inRegistry": true }, "secondarySources": [ { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQRLujxTm3c", "title": "Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2", "publisher": "Rockstar Games (official YouTube channel @RockstarGames)", "type": "official", "publishedAt": "2025-05-06", "inRegistry": true } ], "firstPublishedAt": "2025-05-06", "lastCheckedAt": "2026-07-22", "lastMateriallyChangedAt": "2026-07-19", "supersedes": [], "supersededBy": null, "replacementClaim": null, "reviewerId": "editor-in-chief", "changeLog": [ { "changedAt": "2026-07-19", "type": "created", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Initial ledger entry" } ], "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#trailer2-date" }, { "id": "extended-look-runtime", "claim": "Rockstar's official upload of 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' runs 26 minutes 49 seconds. It was published to Rockstar Games' YouTube channel at 2026-08-28T01:00:48Z, 48 seconds after the announced 9:00 p.m. ET instant.", "evidenceTier": "official", "lifecycle": "active", "topic": "trailers", "region": "global", "scope": "The duration is read from YouTube's own structured metadata on Rockstar's official channel (itemprop=\"duration\", PT26M49S), not from a third-party count and not from a figure circulating elsewhere. The publication timestamp is YouTube's uploadDate, 2026-08-27T18:00:48-07:00. Rockstar's own description reads, verbatim: \"Captured entirely from in-game footage on PlayStation 5, this extended look at the next Grand Theft Auto showcases the biggest, most immersive evolution of the series yet. Grand Theft Auto VI plays best on PlayStation 5. Coming November 19.\" That establishes the capture platform and restates the launch date; it does not describe the contents. NOBODY AT NEONPULSE HAS WATCHED THE PROGRAMME, so this record asserts nothing about what it shows. expiresAt is launch day, when the upload stops being the newest thing Rockstar has published.", "primarySource": { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJbzMqJGH4k", "title": "Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look", "publisher": "Rockstar Games (official YouTube channel @RockstarGames)", "type": "official", "publishedAt": "2026-08-28", "inRegistry": true }, "secondarySources": [ { "url": "https://www.rockstargames.com/VI", "title": "Grand Theft Auto VI - Rockstar Games (official game page)", "publisher": "Rockstar Games", "type": "official", "publishedAt": null, "inRegistry": true } ], "firstPublishedAt": "2026-08-28", "lastCheckedAt": "2026-08-28", "lastMateriallyChangedAt": "2026-08-28", "expiresAt": "2026-11-19", "supersedes": [], "supersededBy": null, "replacementClaim": null, "reviewerId": "agent-first-party-cross-check", "changeLog": [ { "changedAt": "2026-08-28", "type": "created", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Observed on Rockstar Games' official YouTube channel at 2026-08-28T08:05Z: title 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look', duration PT26M49S, uploadDate 2026-08-27T18:00:48-07:00. The GTA VI site carried 'AN EXTENDED LOOK - NOW PLAYING' at the same time." } ], "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#extended-look-runtime" }, { "id": "extended-look-aug-27", "claim": "Rockstar announced 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' on August 6, 2026. It premiered on Netflix on Thursday, August 27, 2026 at 3:00 p.m. ET, and launched on Rockstar's official YouTube channel and the Grand Theft Auto VI site at 9:00 p.m. ET the same day. Both premieres happened as announced.", "evidenceTier": "official", "lifecycle": "active", "topic": "trailers", "region": "global", "scope": "Rockstar's own name for it is 'An Extended Look'. The label 'Trailer 3' appears on none of the first-party surfaces checked (Newswire, the GTA VI page, Rockstar's YouTube channel, the Netflix title page), and Rockstar has not said whether the two are the same thing. Stronger than an absence: rockstargames.com/VI carries explicit 'Watch Trailer 2' and 'Watch Trailer 1' buttons alongside an unnumbered 'An Extended Look, coming August 27' banner, so Rockstar numbers its trailers where it means to and did not number this one — so this ledger states the name it was given and nothing more. No runtime, format or content detail was published with the announcement, so before the premiere what it showed was unknown. Rockstar's own upload has since carried a duration, recorded separately as extended-look-runtime; the contents are still unknown here because NeonPulse has not watched the programme. The announcement restates November 19, 2026 unchanged. expiresAt is the day after the premiere.", "primarySource": { "url": "https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/9k2kaa1o3297k9/", "title": "Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look", "publisher": "Rockstar Games Newswire", "type": "official", "publishedAt": "2026-08-06", "inRegistry": true }, "secondarySources": [ { "url": "https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/4k138k8okkk483/grand-theft-auto-vi-an-extended-look-now-playing", "title": "Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look — Now Playing", "publisher": "Rockstar Games Newswire", "type": "official", "publishedAt": "2026-08-27", "inRegistry": true } ], "firstPublishedAt": "2026-08-06", "lastCheckedAt": "2026-08-24", "lastMateriallyChangedAt": "2026-08-28", "supersedes": [ "trailer3-august-theory" ], "supersededBy": null, "replacementClaim": null, "reviewerId": "editor-in-chief", "changeLog": [ { "changedAt": "2026-08-28", "type": "corrected", "previousStatus": "official", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "POST-EVENT DISPOSITION. Both announced premieres have now happened, so this record stops describing something scheduled and starts describing something that occurred. Three things changed and nothing else. The claim moves to past tense, with the August 6 announcement date and both premiere instants preserved word for word. expiresAt, which read 2026-08-29, is REMOVED rather than extended: expiry exists to force re-verification of a claim that can still move, and a premiere that has happened cannot move. Extending it would have meant re-verifying a settled historical fact on a schedule, which is how a date gets bumped to clear a gate rather than because anyone checked. The status stays 'official' because the claim was confirmed by events, not falsified by them, and lastVerifiedAt stays 2026-08-24, the last date a person read the sources - this entry is an agent's disposition of a record, not a human review of it. What Rockstar published with the upload is a separate record, extended-look-runtime; this one is the announcement and its fulfilment." }, { "changedAt": "2026-08-07", "type": "created", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Announced Aug 6, 2026; verified on Newswire, the GTA VI page banner and Rockstar's official YouTube channel on 2026-08-07" }, { "changedAt": "2026-08-27", "type": "verified", "previousStatus": "official", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "POST-PREMIERE CHECK OF THE NETFLIX WINDOW. Rockstar published a second Newswire post on 2026-08-27, 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look - Now Playing', stating that the Extended Look is now playing on Netflix and is coming to the official YouTube channel and the Grand Theft Auto VI site later today at 9 p.m. ET. rockstargames.com/VI flipped its banner from 'AN EXTENDED LOOK, COMING AUGUST 27' to 'AN EXTENDED LOOK: NOW PLAYING'. So the Netflix premiere happened as announced and the second premiere is still on for 9 p.m. ET: this record's scheduling claim is confirmed by events, not changed by them, which is why the type is 'verified' and the status did not move. Two things did NOT happen and are recorded so they cannot be misread later. First, the full Extended Look was still NOT on Rockstar's YouTube channel at 2026-08-27T19:45:40Z - the newest upload there remains the 26-second announcement clip - and it was not on the Grand Theft Auto VI site either, so no runtime exists and runtime stays UNAVAILABLE. Second, lastVerifiedAt is deliberately NOT moved to 2026-08-27. It renders on the desk under 'Last human verification', and this check was performed by an agent driving a browser, not by a person; moving it would have published a human review that did not occur. The agent cross-check is dated separately on the page and its receipt is audit/aug27-evidence-desk/FIRST-PARTY-RECHECK-2026-08-27T19-44Z.md. expiresAt moves 2026-08-28 to 2026-08-29 for one reason only: the second premiere lands at 2026-08-28T01:00:00Z, so the original date would have expired the record while half of what it describes was still in the future.", "sourceUrl": "https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/4k138k8okkk483/grand-theft-auto-vi-an-extended-look-now-playing" }, { "changedAt": "2026-08-24", "type": "corrected", "previousStatus": "official", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Evidence strengthened; the claim itself and its official status did not change. Pre-event reverification three days before the premiere: all six first-party surfaces were re-read on 2026-08-24 between 10:35 and 10:45 UTC - the Newswire announcement, the Newswire index, the Grand Theft Auto VI site, Rockstar's YouTube channel and its Live tab, and the Netflix title page. Both announced times are still stated word for word, the Newswire index carries no newer Grand Theft Auto VI post, no runtime and no content description exists on any surface, and no premiere is publicly scheduled on the channel. What is new is the evidence for the naming: the GTA VI site carries numbered 'Watch Trailer 2' and 'Watch Trailer 1' buttons beside an unnumbered Extended Look banner, so the point rests on a positive observation rather than on the absence of a phrase. Also recorded so it cannot be misread later: the 0:26 video on Rockstar's channel is the announcement clip, not the Extended Look, and its runtime is not the premiere's runtime. The premiere had not happened at the time of this check.", "sourceUrl": "https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/9k2kaa1o3297k9/" }, { "changedAt": "2026-08-23", "type": "corrected", "previousStatus": "official", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Reverified, nothing changed. All four first-party surfaces were re-read in a browser on 2026-08-23 between 18:39 and 18:41 UTC: the Newswire post, the Grand Theft Auto VI page, Rockstar's YouTube channel and the Netflix title page. The premiere wording is byte-for-byte what it was, no runtime or content description has appeared anywhere, and none of the four uses the name 'Trailer 3'. The date moves because the check happened, not to make the page look fresher — the claim itself is untouched.", "sourceUrl": "https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/9k2kaa1o3297k9/" }, { "changedAt": "2026-08-28", "type": "verified", "previousStatus": "official", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "SECOND PREMIERE CONFIRMED. Rockstar published the Extended Look to its official YouTube channel at 2026-08-28T01:00:48Z, 48 seconds after the announced 9:00 p.m. ET instant, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJbzMqJGH4k. rockstargames.com/VI shows 'AN EXTENDED LOOK - NOW PLAYING'. Both announced premieres therefore happened as announced, on the announced day, and no date in this record moved. The runtime Rockstar published with it is a separate record, extended-look-runtime, because it is new first-party text rather than a re-verification of this one. NeonPulse has still not watched the programme." } ], "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#extended-look-aug-27" }, { "id": "extended-look-capture-provenance", "claim": "Rockstar states that Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look was 'Captured entirely from in-game footage on PlayStation 5'.", "evidenceTier": "official", "lifecycle": "active", "topic": "trailers", "region": "global", "scope": "The quoted words are Rockstar's own, from the Newswire post published the day of the Netflix premiere. WHAT IT ESTABLISHES: the capture source. The footage came out of the game running on PlayStation 5 rather than from pre-rendered CG or an in-engine cinematic assembled outside the game. WHAT IT DOES NOT ESTABLISH, none of which Rockstar states: that any of it is player-controlled gameplay rather than scripted or camera-directed capture; that it runs at the resolution or frame rate the retail game will; that its performance is final; or that the Xbox Series X|S version looks or performs the same. \"In-game\" is a statement about where the pixels came from, not a specification, and it must never be reported as one. SCOPE OF OUR OWN CHECK: NeonPulse has NOT watched the programme - no authenticated Netflix session was available - so this record rests entirely on Rockstar published text and on nothing anyone here saw on screen. No runtime accompanies the statement: Rockstar has still published none, and at 2026-08-27T19:45:40Z the Extended Look itself was not yet on Rockstar's YouTube channel, where a runtime would first become readable. The same post also calls the footage the \"biggest, most immersive evolution of the series yet\". That is promotional copy about their own product, it is not a checkable fact, and it is recorded here only so that its absence from the claim above is visibly deliberate.", "primarySource": { "url": "https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/4k138k8okkk483/grand-theft-auto-vi-an-extended-look-now-playing", "title": "Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look — Now Playing", "publisher": "Rockstar Games Newswire", "type": "official", "publishedAt": "2026-08-27", "inRegistry": true }, "secondarySources": [], "firstPublishedAt": "2026-08-27", "lastCheckedAt": "2026-08-27", "lastMateriallyChangedAt": "2026-08-27", "supersedes": [], "supersededBy": null, "replacementClaim": null, "reviewerId": "agent-first-party-cross-check", "changeLog": [ { "changedAt": "2026-08-27", "type": "created", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Rockstar published the statement in the 'An Extended Look - Now Playing' Newswire post on 2026-08-27. Re-read directly from the live page at 2026-08-27T19:44:42Z, immediately before this record was written; the title was matched in both the h1 and og:title so a redirected or cached page could not be mistaken for it. Verification method is stated exactly rather than flattened into 'verified': this was an agent driving a browser, NOT a human review, which is why reviewerId reads agent-first-party-cross-check and not the masthead editor used by the human-reviewed records. Receipt: audit/aug27-evidence-desk/FIRST-PARTY-RECHECK-2026-08-27T19-44Z.md.", "sourceUrl": "https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/4k138k8okkk483/grand-theft-auto-vi-an-extended-look-now-playing" } ], "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#extended-look-capture-provenance" }, { "id": "fy27-guidance", "claim": "Take-Two reiterated FY2027 net bookings guidance of $8.0–8.2 billion at Q1 results on August 7, 2026.", "evidenceTier": "official", "lifecycle": "active", "topic": "business", "region": "global", "scope": "Re-verified at the Q1 FY2027 release, so this is no longer a May figure carried forward. Scope matters: only NET BOOKINGS was reiterated. The release headline reads \"updates fiscal year 2027 outlook and reiterates expectation for Net Bookings of $8.0 to $8.2 billion\", and comparing the outlook tables shows what \"updates\" covered — Non-GAAP EBITDA came down from $1,013–1,070M to $993–1,053M and capital expenditures rose from approximately $200M to approximately $290M, while diluted EPS of $0.55–0.75 was unchanged. Do not restate this claim as \"guidance held\" without that scope. expiresAt = next earnings.", "primarySource": { "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/946581/000162828026054580/ttwo1q27earningsrelease.htm", "title": "Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Reports Results for Fiscal First Quarter 2027", "publisher": "Take-Two Interactive (SEC Form 8-K, Exhibit 99.1)", "type": "official", "publishedAt": "2026-08-07", "inRegistry": true }, "secondarySources": [], "firstPublishedAt": "2026-05-14", "lastCheckedAt": "2026-08-07", "lastMateriallyChangedAt": "2026-08-07", "expiresAt": "2026-11-07", "supersedes": [], "supersededBy": null, "replacementClaim": null, "reviewerId": "editor-in-chief", "changeLog": [ { "changedAt": "2026-07-19", "type": "created", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Initial ledger entry" }, { "changedAt": "2026-08-07", "type": "corrected", "previousStatus": "official", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Re-verified against the Q1 FY2027 results release. Net bookings guidance reiterated unchanged; EBITDA guidance lowered and capex raised in the same table, so the claim was rescoped to net bookings explicitly rather than left as a general \"guidance\" statement.", "sourceUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/946581/000162828026054580/ttwo1q27earningsrelease.htm" } ], "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#fy27-guidance" }, { "id": "earnings-aug-7", "claim": "Take-Two reported Q1 FY2027 results on Friday, August 7, 2026, before U.S. market open. The release restated November 19, 2026 for GTA 6 and disclosed no pre-order total.", "evidenceTier": "official", "lifecycle": "active", "topic": "business", "region": "global", "scope": "A schedule entry that has become a dated historical record. What the written release contains: Q1 net bookings of $1.39 billion, down 3% from $1.42 billion, which the company describes as slightly above its guidance range; a GAAP net loss of $34.1 million, or $0.18 per share, against $11.9 million, or $0.07, a year earlier; a $43.4 million impairment for deciding not to proceed with an unannounced title from a third-party developer, which the company neither names nor connects to GTA 6; November 19, 2026 stated twice, in Strauss Zelnick's quoted remarks and in the future-lineup table; and no pre-order figure at all — the word does not appear. Guidance scope is tracked separately in fy27-guidance, because only net bookings was reiterated. BOUNDARY: the conference call began at 12:00 UTC, after this document. Its only primary record is a registration-walled webcast replay this ledger has not reviewed, so no claim is made here about what was or was not said, asked or answered on the call. expiresAt dropped: a completed event, correctly dated, has nothing left to re-verify.", "primarySource": { "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/946581/000162828026054580/ttwo1q27earningsrelease.htm", "title": "Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Reports Results for Fiscal First Quarter 2027", "publisher": "Take-Two Interactive (SEC Form 8-K, Exhibit 99.1)", "type": "official", "publishedAt": "2026-08-07", "inRegistry": true }, "secondarySources": [ { "url": "https://www.take2games.com/ir/news/take-two-interactive-software-inc-report-first-quarter-fiscal-7", "title": "Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. to Report First Quarter Fiscal Year 2027 Results on Friday, August 7, 2026", "publisher": "Take-Two Interactive (Investor Relations)", "type": "official", "publishedAt": "2026-07-09", "inRegistry": true } ], "firstPublishedAt": "2026-07-10", "lastCheckedAt": "2026-08-08", "lastMateriallyChangedAt": "2026-08-08", "supersedes": [], "supersededBy": null, "replacementClaim": null, "reviewerId": "editor-in-chief", "changeLog": [ { "changedAt": "2026-07-19", "type": "created", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Initial ledger entry" }, { "changedAt": "2026-08-08", "type": "corrected", "previousStatus": "official", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "The event happened. Rewritten from a forward schedule statement (\"reports on August 7\") into a dated record of what was reported, because read the day after, the old wording announced a past event as pending. Primary source moved from the July 9 scheduling announcement to the results release itself, which is now the better evidence; the scheduling announcement is kept as a secondary source. expiresAt (2026-08-08) removed rather than extended: it existed to force a re-check once the event landed, and the re-check is this entry.", "sourceUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/946581/000162828026054580/ttwo1q27earningsrelease.htm" } ], "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#earnings-aug-7" }, { "id": "gta5-benchmark", "claim": "GTA 5 has sold ~230M lifetime units; its 2013 launch hit $1B in three days (Guinness-certified).", "evidenceTier": "official", "lifecycle": "active", "topic": "business", "region": "global", "scope": "230M is the Take-Two-reported catalog figure (May 2026); the 2013 records are Guinness-certified.", "primarySource": { "url": "https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2013/10/confirmed-grand-theft-auto-breaks-six-sales-world-records-51900", "title": "Confirmed: Grand Theft Auto 5 breaks 6 sales world records", "publisher": "Guinness World Records", "type": "record-body", "publishedAt": "2013-10-08", "inRegistry": true }, "secondarySources": [ { "url": "https://www.vgchartz.com/article/467903/gta-series-tops-470m-rdr-series-nears-115m-civilization-tops-80m/", "title": "GTA Series Tops 470M, RDR Series Nears 115M, Civilization Tops 80M", "publisher": "VGChartz", "type": "reporting", "publishedAt": "2026-05-21", "inRegistry": true } ], "firstPublishedAt": "2026-05-14", "lastCheckedAt": "2026-07-22", "lastMateriallyChangedAt": "2026-07-19", "supersedes": [], "supersededBy": null, "replacementClaim": null, "reviewerId": "editor-in-chief", "changeLog": [ { "changedAt": "2026-07-19", "type": "created", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Initial ledger entry" } ], "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#gta5-benchmark" }, { "id": "india-pricing", "claim": "India pricing on the PlayStation Store: ₹5,999 Standard / ₹7,499 Ultimate.", "evidenceTier": "official", "lifecycle": "active", "topic": "india", "region": "India", "platform": "PS5", "scope": "Store listing renders prices with \"Rs\". Price claims are region+timestamp-bound; re-verify monthly (expiresAt).", "primarySource": { "url": "https://www.playstation.com/en-in/games/grand-theft-auto-vi/", "title": "Grand Theft Auto VI - PS5 Games | PlayStation (India)", "publisher": "PlayStation India (Sony Interactive Entertainment)", "type": "official", "publishedAt": null, "inRegistry": true }, "secondarySources": [ { "url": "https://store.playstation.com/en-in/product/EP1004-PPSA01547_00-GTAVISTANDARD001", "title": "Grand Theft Auto VI — PlayStation Store (India)", "publisher": "PlayStation Store (Sony Interactive Entertainment)", "type": "official", "publishedAt": null, "inRegistry": true } ], "firstPublishedAt": "2026-06-25", "lastCheckedAt": "2026-09-15", "lastMateriallyChangedAt": "2026-07-19", "expiresAt": "2026-10-15", "supersedes": [], "supersededBy": null, "replacementClaim": null, "reviewerId": "editor-in-chief", "changeLog": [ { "changedAt": "2026-09-15", "type": "verified", "previousStatus": "official", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "PlayStation Store India product page read directly (not the marketing hub): Rs 5,999 Standard and Rs 7,499 Ultimate on the page. Claim unchanged; expiry extended one month because the check was actually performed. Method: an agent driving a browser and reading the rendered page. NOT a human review; reviewerId is left as originally recorded. Receipt: audit/p2-content/SOURCE-RECEIPTS-2026-09-15.md.", "sourceUrl": "https://store.playstation.com/en-in/product/EP1004-PPSA01547_00-GTAVISTANDARD001" }, { "changedAt": "2026-07-19", "type": "created", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Initial ledger entry" }, { "changedAt": "2026-08-23", "type": "verified", "previousStatus": "official", "newStatus": "official", "reason": "Re-verified, unchanged. The claim expired on 2026-08-22 and the expiry correctly failed the production build. The PlayStation India listing was fetched again on 2026-08-23 (HTTP 200) and still displays \"Rs 5,999\" for the Standard Edition and \"Rs 7,499\" for the Ultimate Edition, so the dates are advanced on evidence rather than on convenience. Next re-verification due 2026-09-23. Recorded as verified rather than corrected because the claim, its source, its scope and its status were all unchanged; only the check happened.", "sourceUrl": "https://www.playstation.com/en-in/games/grand-theft-auto-vi/" } ], "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#india-pricing" }, { "id": "analyst-projections", "claim": "Analyst first-year projections: Piper Sandler ~35M copies; DFC Intelligence ~40M / $3.2B.", "evidenceTier": "estimate", "lifecycle": "active", "topic": "business", "region": "global", "scope": "Method: named-analyst forecasts as reported; never company guidance. Uncertainty: forecasts predate launch by months.", "primarySource": { "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/gta-6-could-sell-35-132047794.html", "title": "GTA 6 Could Sell 35 Million Copies By April 2027, Report Says", "publisher": "GameSpot (syndicated on Yahoo Finance)", "type": "reporting", "publishedAt": "2026-06-02", "inRegistry": true }, "secondarySources": [ { "url": "https://gamefragger.com/multiplatform/action-adventure/grand-theft-auto-5/analyst-predicts-gta-6-will-make-over-3-billion-in-its-first-year-a26902", "title": "Analyst Predicts GTA 6 Will Make Over $3 Billion In Its First Year", "publisher": "GameFragger", "type": "reporting", "publishedAt": "2025-01-02", "inRegistry": true } ], "firstPublishedAt": "2026-06-26", "lastCheckedAt": "2026-07-22", "lastMateriallyChangedAt": "2026-07-19", "supersedes": [], "supersededBy": null, "replacementClaim": null, "reviewerId": "editor-in-chief", "changeLog": [ { "changedAt": "2026-07-19", "type": "created", "newStatus": "estimate", "reason": "Initial ledger entry" } ], "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#analyst-projections" }, { "id": "trailer3-august-theory", "claim": "As of July 23, 2026, no new GTA 6 footage had an announced date, and insider Tom Henderson was predicting a third trailer in early August 2026, near Take-Two's earnings call.", "evidenceTier": "outdated", "lifecycle": "superseded", "topic": "trailers", "region": "global", "scope": "Henderson was explicit that this was pattern-reading from Take-Two's marketing plans, NOT sourced information. What actually happened: no trailer dropped in early August. On August 6, 2026 Rockstar announced footage dated for August 27, under its own name, An Extended Look. A drop was predicted; an announcement arrived. Kept rather than deleted because the site reported the prediction, so the record of it belongs here.", "primarySource": { "url": "https://gameranx.com/updates/id/561899/article/tom-henderson-says-he-is-sticking-to-my-guns-on-gta-6s-3rd-trailer-coming-early-august/", "title": "Tom Henderson Says He Is 'Sticking To My Guns' On GTA 6's 3rd Trailer Coming Early August", "publisher": "Gameranx (Ryan Parreno)", "type": "reporting", "publishedAt": "2026-03-24", "inRegistry": true }, "secondarySources": [], "firstPublishedAt": "2026-03-24", "lastCheckedAt": "2026-08-07", "lastMateriallyChangedAt": "2026-08-07", "supersedes": [], "supersededBy": "extended-look-aug-27", "replacementClaim": "Rockstar announced 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' on August 6, 2026. It premiered on Netflix on Thursday, August 27, 2026 at 3:00 p.m. ET, and launched on Rockstar's official YouTube channel and the Grand Theft Auto VI site at 9:00 p.m. ET the same day. Both premieres happened as announced.", "reviewerId": "editor-in-chief", "changeLog": [ { "changedAt": "2026-07-23", "type": "created", "newStatus": "reported", "reason": "Source verified and entered" }, { "changedAt": "2026-08-07", "type": "superseded", "previousStatus": "reported", "newStatus": "outdated", "reason": "Resolved by Rockstar's August 6, 2026 announcement of An Extended Look for August 27. The claim was rewritten from live present tense ('Trailer 3 has NO announced date') to a dated historical statement, because read today the old wording told readers no new footage was dated. expiresAt dropped: a superseded record has nothing left to re-verify.", "sourceUrl": "https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/9k2kaa1o3297k9/" } ], "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#trailer3-august-theory" }, { "id": "online-32-players", "claim": "Court documents from Rockstar's suit against fired employees referenced online playtests with 'at least 32 players'.", "evidenceTier": "reported", "lifecycle": "active", "topic": "online", "region": "global", "scope": "A floor from an internal message in a legal filing — not a spec, not an announcement. No online mode is announced.", "primarySource": { "url": "https://kotaku.com/gta-6-multiplayer-one-detail-leak-court-docs-player-count-32-rockstar-2000659780", "title": "A Detail About GTA 6's Super Secret Multiplayer Just Got Accidentally Revealed", "publisher": "Kotaku", "type": "reporting", "publishedAt": "2026-01-14", "inRegistry": true }, "secondarySources": [], "firstPublishedAt": "2026-01-15", "lastCheckedAt": "2026-07-22", "lastMateriallyChangedAt": "2026-07-20", "supersedes": [], "supersededBy": null, "replacementClaim": null, "reviewerId": "editor-in-chief", "changeLog": [ { "changedAt": "2026-07-20", "type": "created", "newStatus": "reported", "reason": "Initial ledger entry (originator linked)" } ], "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#online-32-players" }, { "id": "voice-actors", "claim": "Manni Perez is widely reported as the voice of Lucia. Rockstar has confirmed NO cast member for any role.", "evidenceTier": "rumor", "lifecycle": "disputed", "topic": "characters", "region": "global", "scope": "Consistent across outlets but zero first-party confirmation; Rockstar historically never confirms performers pre-launch.", "primarySource": { "url": "https://www.sportskeeda.com/gta/who-manni-l-perez-likely-gta-6-s-voice-actor", "title": "Who is Manni L. Perez, and why is she likely to be GTA 6's voice actor?", "publisher": "Sportskeeda", "type": "reporting", "publishedAt": "2023-12-25", "inRegistry": true }, "secondarySources": [], "firstPublishedAt": "2026-07-20", "lastCheckedAt": "2026-07-22", "lastMateriallyChangedAt": "2026-07-20", "supersedes": [], "supersededBy": null, "replacementClaim": null, "reviewerId": "editor-in-chief", "changeLog": [ { "changedAt": "2026-07-20", "type": "created", "newStatus": "rumor", "reason": "Initial ledger entry" } ], "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#voice-actors" }, { "id": "fake-39m-preorders", "claim": "'39 million pre-orders / $3B in 24 hours' — a viral figure from one unsourced social post.", "evidenceTier": "rumor", "lifecycle": "disputed", "topic": "business", "region": "global", "scope": "Take-Two has published no pre-order count, and the figure traces to a single unsourced social post rather than to any company disclosure, retailer report, or named-analyst estimate. It is unsupported by any disclosed primary source — which is not the same as having been shown to be false.", "primarySource": { "url": "https://khelnow.com/gaming/fact-check-did-gta-6-pre-orders-sell-39-million-copies-did-3-billion-in-revenue-202606", "title": "FACT CHECK: Did GTA 6 pre-orders sell 39 million copies & did $3 Billion in revenue?", "publisher": "Khel Now", "type": "reporting", "publishedAt": "2026-06-27", "inRegistry": true }, "secondarySources": [ { "url": "https://www.gamingamigos.com/post/are-gta-6-39-million-pre-order-numbers-real", "title": "Are GTA 6's Viral 39 Million Pre-Order Numbers Real? Here's What We Actually Know", "publisher": "Gaming Amigos", "type": "reporting", "publishedAt": "2026-06-28", "inRegistry": true } ], "firstPublishedAt": "2026-06-27", "lastCheckedAt": "2026-08-02", "lastMateriallyChangedAt": "2026-08-02", "supersedes": [], "supersededBy": null, "replacementClaim": null, "reviewerId": "editor-in-chief", "changeLog": [ { "changedAt": "2026-06-27", "type": "created", "newStatus": "rumor", "reason": "Viral claim appeared" }, { "changedAt": "2026-07-08", "type": "status_changed", "previousStatus": "rumor", "newStatus": "disproved", "reason": "Traced to a single unsourced post; no primary source found", "sourceUrl": "https://khelnow.com/gaming/fact-check-did-gta-6-pre-orders-sell-39-million-copies-did-3-billion-in-revenue-202606" }, { "changedAt": "2026-07-26", "type": "corrected", "previousStatus": "disproved", "newStatus": "disproved", "reason": "Evidence wording corrected: the record now states the figure is unsupported by a disclosed primary source rather than asserting it was proven false, and drops an analyst-comparison framing that compared a pre-order claim against a fiscal-year units estimate." }, { "changedAt": "2026-08-02", "type": "status_changed", "previousStatus": "disproved", "newStatus": "rumor", "reason": "Classification corrected. \"Disproved\" claimed this site had shown the figure to be false; it had not. Two fact-checks traced it to one unsourced post and found no supporting data, which establishes that it is unsupported. \"Rumor\" is the published definition that fits: a circulating claim with a named origin and no first-party confirmation. The article prose had said \"unsupported, not disproven\" since 2026-07-26 while the ledger status still said disproved." } ], "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#fake-39m-preorders" }, { "id": "fake-collectors-edition", "claim": "The viral GTA 6 'Collector's Edition' mockups and 'pre-order' listings are not official — none appears on Rockstar's Newswire or the first-party stores.", "evidenceTier": "disproved", "lifecycle": "withdrawn", "topic": "editions", "region": "global", "scope": "As of 2026-07-25 no official Rockstar page lists any edition beyond Standard and Ultimate. This debunks the specific circulating fakes as unofficial; it is not a claim that a Collector's Edition can never be announced.", "primarySource": { "url": "https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/4QfG4FmZCf5W1gS8jy4UVT/grand-theft-auto-vi-platform-editions-and-versions", "title": "Grand Theft Auto VI Platforms, Editions, and Versions", "publisher": "Rockstar Games Customer Support", "type": "official", "publishedAt": "2026-06-24 (Last Updated)", "inRegistry": true }, "secondarySources": [], "firstPublishedAt": "2026-06-25", "lastCheckedAt": "2026-09-15", "lastMateriallyChangedAt": "2026-07-25", "supersedes": [], "supersededBy": null, "replacementClaim": null, "reviewerId": "editor-in-chief", "changeLog": [ { "changedAt": "2026-09-15", "type": "verified", "previousStatus": "disproved", "newStatus": "disproved", "reason": "Rockstar Support lists two editions; rockstargames.com/VI contains no \"collector\" string. No first-party collector's edition exists as of this read. Claim unchanged. Method: an agent driving a browser and reading the rendered page. NOT a human review; reviewerId is left as originally recorded. Receipt: audit/p2-content/SOURCE-RECEIPTS-2026-09-15.md.", "sourceUrl": "https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/4QfG4FmZCf5W1gS8jy4UVT/grand-theft-auto-vi-platform-editions-and-versions" }, { "changedAt": "2026-07-19", "type": "created", "newStatus": "disproved", "reason": "Initial ledger entry (debunk)" }, { "changedAt": "2026-07-25", "type": "corrected", "newStatus": "disproved", "reason": "Reworded to debunk the specific unofficial mockups/listings rather than assert non-existence of the concept." } ], "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#fake-collectors-edition" } ], "history": [ { "date": "2026-09-15", "changeType": "verified", "kind": "reverified", "claimId": "editions-two", "claim": "Rockstar and the platform stores currently list two editions: Standard $79.99 and Ultimate $99.99. No Collector's Edition has been announced as of 2026-07-25.", "from": "official", "to": "official", "reason": "Rockstar Support lists Standard and Ultimate only; rockstargames.com/VI and the US PlayStation Store show the same two at $79.99 and $99.99 (PlayStation Store US read the same day). No third edition anywhere first-party. Claim unchanged. Method: an agent driving a browser and reading the rendered page. NOT a human review; reviewerId is left as originally recorded. Receipt: audit/p2-content/SOURCE-RECEIPTS-2026-09-15.md.", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#editions-two" }, { "date": "2026-09-15", "changeType": "verified", "kind": "reverified", "claimId": "fake-collectors-edition", "claim": "The viral GTA 6 'Collector's Edition' mockups and 'pre-order' listings are not official — none appears on Rockstar's Newswire or the first-party stores.", "from": "disproved", "to": "disproved", "reason": "Rockstar Support lists two editions; rockstargames.com/VI contains no \"collector\" string. No first-party collector's edition exists as of this read. Claim unchanged. Method: an agent driving a browser and reading the rendered page. NOT a human review; reviewerId is left as originally recorded. Receipt: audit/p2-content/SOURCE-RECEIPTS-2026-09-15.md.", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#fake-collectors-edition" }, { "date": "2026-09-15", "changeType": "verified", "kind": "reverified", "claimId": "india-pricing", "claim": "India pricing on the PlayStation Store: ₹5,999 Standard / ₹7,499 Ultimate.", "from": "official", "to": "official", "reason": "PlayStation Store India product page read directly (not the marketing hub): Rs 5,999 Standard and Rs 7,499 Ultimate on the page. Claim unchanged; expiry extended one month because the check was actually performed. Method: an agent driving a browser and reading the rendered page. NOT a human review; reviewerId is left as originally recorded. Receipt: audit/p2-content/SOURCE-RECEIPTS-2026-09-15.md.", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#india-pricing" }, { "date": "2026-09-15", "changeType": "verified", "kind": "reverified", "claimId": "launch-date", "claim": "GTA 6 launches Thursday, November 19, 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. The PlayStation listing additionally carries a PS5 Pro Enhanced badge.", "from": "official", "to": "official", "reason": "rockstargames.com/VI read in a browser: \"COMING NOVEMBER 19, 2026 · PlayStation 5 · Xbox Series X|S\". Two platforms named, no PC. Claim unchanged. Method: an agent driving a browser and reading the rendered page. NOT a human review; reviewerId is left as originally recorded. Receipt: audit/p2-content/SOURCE-RECEIPTS-2026-09-15.md.", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#launch-date" }, { "date": "2026-09-15", "changeType": "verified", "kind": "reverified", "claimId": "no-disc", "claim": "The boxed physical edition contains a download code, not a disc.", "from": "official", "to": "official", "reason": "Rockstar Support re-read: \"A disc will not be included in the box\"; physical version is a download code. Claim unchanged. Method: an agent driving a browser and reading the rendered page. NOT a human review; reviewerId is left as originally recorded. Receipt: audit/p2-content/SOURCE-RECEIPTS-2026-09-15.md.", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#no-disc" }, { "date": "2026-09-15", "changeType": "verified", "kind": "reverified", "claimId": "no-pc", "claim": "No PC version has been announced.", "from": "official", "to": "official", "reason": "rockstargames.com/VI read in a browser: platforms shown are PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S; the string \"PC\" does not appear. Claim unchanged. Method: an agent driving a browser and reading the rendered page. NOT a human review; reviewerId is left as originally recorded. Receipt: audit/p2-content/SOURCE-RECEIPTS-2026-09-15.md.", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#no-pc" }, { "date": "2026-09-15", "changeType": "verified", "kind": "reverified", "claimId": "preload-nov-12", "claim": "Digital pre-load opens November 12, 2026; boxed copies ship from the same date.", "from": "official", "to": "official", "reason": "Rockstar Support re-read: \"pre-load will begin at local midnight on November 12, 2026\"; physical version \"available starting November 12\". Claim unchanged. Method: an agent driving a browser and reading the rendered page. NOT a human review; reviewerId is left as originally recorded. Receipt: audit/p2-content/SOURCE-RECEIPTS-2026-09-15.md.", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#preload-nov-12" }, { "date": "2026-09-15", "changeType": "verified", "kind": "reverified", "claimId": "preorders-open", "claim": "Pre-orders opened June 25, 2026, at midnight local time, region by region.", "from": "official", "to": "official", "reason": "Take-Two IR release of June 24, 2026 re-read: \"pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI will begin on June 25, 2026, at midnight local time\". Claim unchanged. Method: an agent driving a browser and reading the rendered page. NOT a human review; reviewerId is left as originally recorded. Receipt: audit/p2-content/SOURCE-RECEIPTS-2026-09-15.md.", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#preorders-open" }, { "date": "2026-09-15", "changeType": "verified", "kind": "reverified", "claimId": "single-player-launch", "claim": "GTA 6 is currently described by Rockstar as a single-player experience. No multiplayer or successor online mode has been announced.", "from": "official", "to": "official", "reason": "Take-Two IR release re-read: the game \"features a single-player experience\". No online mode named on rockstargames.com/VI the same day. Claim unchanged. Method: an agent driving a browser and reading the rendered page. NOT a human review; reviewerId is left as originally recorded. Receipt: audit/p2-content/SOURCE-RECEIPTS-2026-09-15.md.", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#single-player-launch" }, { "date": "2026-09-15", "changeType": "verified", "kind": "reverified", "claimId": "vvcp-offer", "claim": "All pre-orders AND purchases before November 20, 2026 include the Vintage Vice City Pack. This is a purchase cutoff that includes launch-day purchases, not a pre-order deadline.", "from": "official", "to": "official", "reason": "Rockstar Support editions page (their Last Updated: August 18, 2026) re-read: digital pre-orders and purchases \"prior to November 20, 2026\" include the Vintage Vice City Pack; the GTA+ month is listed for digital only and absent from the physical list. Take-Two IR says the same. Claim unchanged. Method: an agent driving a browser and reading the rendered page. NOT a human review; reviewerId is left as originally recorded. Receipt: audit/p2-content/SOURCE-RECEIPTS-2026-09-15.md.", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#vvcp-offer" }, { "date": "2026-08-28", "changeType": "corrected", "kind": "corrected", "claimId": "extended-look-aug-27", "claim": "Rockstar announced 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' on August 6, 2026. It premiered on Netflix on Thursday, August 27, 2026 at 3:00 p.m. ET, and launched on Rockstar's official YouTube channel and the Grand Theft Auto VI site at 9:00 p.m. ET the same day. Both premieres happened as announced.", "from": "official", "to": "official", "reason": "POST-EVENT DISPOSITION. Both announced premieres have now happened, so this record stops describing something scheduled and starts describing something that occurred. Three things changed and nothing else. The claim moves to past tense, with the August 6 announcement date and both premiere instants preserved word for word. expiresAt, which read 2026-08-29, is REMOVED rather than extended: expiry exists to force re-verification of a claim that can still move, and a premiere that has happened cannot move. Extending it would have meant re-verifying a settled historical fact on a schedule, which is how a date gets bumped to clear a gate rather than because anyone checked. The status stays 'official' because the claim was confirmed by events, not falsified by them, and lastVerifiedAt stays 2026-08-24, the last date a person read the sources - this entry is an agent's disposition of a record, not a human review of it. What Rockstar published with the upload is a separate record, extended-look-runtime; this one is the announcement and its fulfilment.", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#extended-look-aug-27" }, { "date": "2026-08-28", "changeType": "verified", "kind": "reverified", "claimId": "extended-look-aug-27", "claim": "Rockstar announced 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' on August 6, 2026. It premiered on Netflix on Thursday, August 27, 2026 at 3:00 p.m. ET, and launched on Rockstar's official YouTube channel and the Grand Theft Auto VI site at 9:00 p.m. ET the same day. Both premieres happened as announced.", "from": "official", "to": "official", "reason": "SECOND PREMIERE CONFIRMED. Rockstar published the Extended Look to its official YouTube channel at 2026-08-28T01:00:48Z, 48 seconds after the announced 9:00 p.m. ET instant, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJbzMqJGH4k. rockstargames.com/VI shows 'AN EXTENDED LOOK - NOW PLAYING'. Both announced premieres therefore happened as announced, on the announced day, and no date in this record moved. The runtime Rockstar published with it is a separate record, extended-look-runtime, because it is new first-party text rather than a re-verification of this one. NeonPulse has still not watched the programme.", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#extended-look-aug-27" }, { "date": "2026-08-28", "changeType": "created", "kind": "newly-confirmed", "claimId": "extended-look-runtime", "claim": "Rockstar's official upload of 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' runs 26 minutes 49 seconds. It was published to Rockstar Games' YouTube channel at 2026-08-28T01:00:48Z, 48 seconds after the announced 9:00 p.m. ET instant.", "to": "official", "reason": "Observed on Rockstar Games' official YouTube channel at 2026-08-28T08:05Z: title 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look', duration PT26M49S, uploadDate 2026-08-27T18:00:48-07:00. The GTA VI site carried 'AN EXTENDED LOOK - NOW PLAYING' at the same time.", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#extended-look-runtime" }, { "date": "2026-08-27", "changeType": "verified", "kind": "reverified", "claimId": "extended-look-aug-27", "claim": "Rockstar announced 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' on August 6, 2026. It premiered on Netflix on Thursday, August 27, 2026 at 3:00 p.m. ET, and launched on Rockstar's official YouTube channel and the Grand Theft Auto VI site at 9:00 p.m. ET the same day. Both premieres happened as announced.", "from": "official", "to": "official", "reason": "POST-PREMIERE CHECK OF THE NETFLIX WINDOW. Rockstar published a second Newswire post on 2026-08-27, 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look - Now Playing', stating that the Extended Look is now playing on Netflix and is coming to the official YouTube channel and the Grand Theft Auto VI site later today at 9 p.m. ET. rockstargames.com/VI flipped its banner from 'AN EXTENDED LOOK, COMING AUGUST 27' to 'AN EXTENDED LOOK: NOW PLAYING'. So the Netflix premiere happened as announced and the second premiere is still on for 9 p.m. ET: this record's scheduling claim is confirmed by events, not changed by them, which is why the type is 'verified' and the status did not move. Two things did NOT happen and are recorded so they cannot be misread later. First, the full Extended Look was still NOT on Rockstar's YouTube channel at 2026-08-27T19:45:40Z - the newest upload there remains the 26-second announcement clip - and it was not on the Grand Theft Auto VI site either, so no runtime exists and runtime stays UNAVAILABLE. Second, lastVerifiedAt is deliberately NOT moved to 2026-08-27. It renders on the desk under 'Last human verification', and this check was performed by an agent driving a browser, not by a person; moving it would have published a human review that did not occur. The agent cross-check is dated separately on the page and its receipt is audit/aug27-evidence-desk/FIRST-PARTY-RECHECK-2026-08-27T19-44Z.md. expiresAt moves 2026-08-28 to 2026-08-29 for one reason only: the second premiere lands at 2026-08-28T01:00:00Z, so the original date would have expired the record while half of what it describes was still in the future.", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#extended-look-aug-27" }, { "date": "2026-08-27", "changeType": "created", "kind": "newly-confirmed", "claimId": "extended-look-capture-provenance", "claim": "Rockstar states that Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look was 'Captured entirely from in-game footage on PlayStation 5'.", "to": "official", "reason": "Rockstar published the statement in the 'An Extended Look - Now Playing' Newswire post on 2026-08-27. Re-read directly from the live page at 2026-08-27T19:44:42Z, immediately before this record was written; the title was matched in both the h1 and og:title so a redirected or cached page could not be mistaken for it. Verification method is stated exactly rather than flattened into 'verified': this was an agent driving a browser, NOT a human review, which is why reviewerId reads agent-first-party-cross-check and not the masthead editor used by the human-reviewed records. Receipt: audit/aug27-evidence-desk/FIRST-PARTY-RECHECK-2026-08-27T19-44Z.md.", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#extended-look-capture-provenance" }, { "date": "2026-08-24", "changeType": "corrected", "kind": "corrected", "claimId": "extended-look-aug-27", "claim": "Rockstar announced 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' on August 6, 2026. It premiered on Netflix on Thursday, August 27, 2026 at 3:00 p.m. ET, and launched on Rockstar's official YouTube channel and the Grand Theft Auto VI site at 9:00 p.m. ET the same day. Both premieres happened as announced.", "from": "official", "to": "official", "reason": "Evidence strengthened; the claim itself and its official status did not change. Pre-event reverification three days before the premiere: all six first-party surfaces were re-read on 2026-08-24 between 10:35 and 10:45 UTC - the Newswire announcement, the Newswire index, the Grand Theft Auto VI site, Rockstar's YouTube channel and its Live tab, and the Netflix title page. Both announced times are still stated word for word, the Newswire index carries no newer Grand Theft Auto VI post, no runtime and no content description exists on any surface, and no premiere is publicly scheduled on the channel. What is new is the evidence for the naming: the GTA VI site carries numbered 'Watch Trailer 2' and 'Watch Trailer 1' buttons beside an unnumbered Extended Look banner, so the point rests on a positive observation rather than on the absence of a phrase. Also recorded so it cannot be misread later: the 0:26 video on Rockstar's channel is the announcement clip, not the Extended Look, and its runtime is not the premiere's runtime. The premiere had not happened at the time of this check.", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#extended-look-aug-27" }, { "date": "2026-08-23", "changeType": "corrected", "kind": "corrected", "claimId": "extended-look-aug-27", "claim": "Rockstar announced 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' on August 6, 2026. It premiered on Netflix on Thursday, August 27, 2026 at 3:00 p.m. ET, and launched on Rockstar's official YouTube channel and the Grand Theft Auto VI site at 9:00 p.m. ET the same day. Both premieres happened as announced.", "from": "official", "to": "official", "reason": "Reverified, nothing changed. All four first-party surfaces were re-read in a browser on 2026-08-23 between 18:39 and 18:41 UTC: the Newswire post, the Grand Theft Auto VI page, Rockstar's YouTube channel and the Netflix title page. The premiere wording is byte-for-byte what it was, no runtime or content description has appeared anywhere, and none of the four uses the name 'Trailer 3'. The date moves because the check happened, not to make the page look fresher — the claim itself is untouched.", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#extended-look-aug-27" }, { "date": "2026-08-23", "changeType": "verified", "kind": "reverified", "claimId": "india-pricing", "claim": "India pricing on the PlayStation Store: ₹5,999 Standard / ₹7,499 Ultimate.", "from": "official", "to": "official", "reason": "Re-verified, unchanged. The claim expired on 2026-08-22 and the expiry correctly failed the production build. The PlayStation India listing was fetched again on 2026-08-23 (HTTP 200) and still displays \"Rs 5,999\" for the Standard Edition and \"Rs 7,499\" for the Ultimate Edition, so the dates are advanced on evidence rather than on convenience. Next re-verification due 2026-09-23. Recorded as verified rather than corrected because the claim, its source, its scope and its status were all unchanged; only the check happened.", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#india-pricing" }, { "date": "2026-08-22", "changeType": "corrected", "kind": "corrected", "claimId": "launch-date", "claim": "GTA 6 launches Thursday, November 19, 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. The PlayStation listing additionally carries a PS5 Pro Enhanced badge.", "from": "official", "to": "official", "reason": "Attribution corrected, date unchanged. The claim previously read \"on PS5, PS5 Pro and Xbox Series X|S\", which presents three launch platforms. The cited Newswire post names exactly two — PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S — and so does the pre-order module on rockstargames.com/VI. PS5 Pro appears in this repository only as a PS5 Pro Enhanced badge on the PlayStation Store listing, which is a Sony enhancement programme marker on a PS5 SKU, not a separate platform. Found by the 2026-08-22 official-video evidence pass, which read Rockstar first-party text directly.", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#launch-date" }, { "date": "2026-08-08", "changeType": "corrected", "kind": "corrected", "claimId": "earnings-aug-7", "claim": "Take-Two reported Q1 FY2027 results on Friday, August 7, 2026, before U.S. market open. The release restated November 19, 2026 for GTA 6 and disclosed no pre-order total.", "from": "official", "to": "official", "reason": "The event happened. Rewritten from a forward schedule statement (\"reports on August 7\") into a dated record of what was reported, because read the day after, the old wording announced a past event as pending. Primary source moved from the July 9 scheduling announcement to the results release itself, which is now the better evidence; the scheduling announcement is kept as a secondary source. expiresAt (2026-08-08) removed rather than extended: it existed to force a re-check once the event landed, and the re-check is this entry.", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#earnings-aug-7" }, { "date": "2026-08-08", "changeType": "corrected", "kind": "corrected", "claimId": "launch-date", "claim": "GTA 6 launches Thursday, November 19, 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. The PlayStation listing additionally carries a PS5 Pro Enhanced badge.", "from": "official", "to": "official", "reason": "Evidence strengthened, claim unchanged. Take-Two's Q1 FY2027 results release restates November 19, 2026 in two places, so it is added as a secondary source and named in the evidence note. Recorded because the most common question put to this record — whether the August 7 results would move the date — now has a first-party answer.", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#launch-date" }, { "date": "2026-08-07", "changeType": "created", "kind": "newly-confirmed", "claimId": "extended-look-aug-27", "claim": "Rockstar announced 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' on August 6, 2026. It premiered on Netflix on Thursday, August 27, 2026 at 3:00 p.m. ET, and launched on Rockstar's official YouTube channel and the Grand Theft Auto VI site at 9:00 p.m. ET the same day. Both premieres happened as announced.", "to": "official", "reason": "Announced Aug 6, 2026; verified on Newswire, the GTA VI page banner and Rockstar's official YouTube channel on 2026-08-07", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#extended-look-aug-27" }, { "date": "2026-08-07", "changeType": "corrected", "kind": "corrected", "claimId": "fy27-guidance", "claim": "Take-Two reiterated FY2027 net bookings guidance of $8.0–8.2 billion at Q1 results on August 7, 2026.", "from": "official", "to": "official", "reason": "Re-verified against the Q1 FY2027 results release. Net bookings guidance reiterated unchanged; EBITDA guidance lowered and capex raised in the same table, so the claim was rescoped to net bookings explicitly rather than left as a general \"guidance\" statement.", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#fy27-guidance" }, { "date": "2026-08-07", "changeType": "superseded", "kind": "superseded", "claimId": "trailer3-august-theory", "claim": "As of July 23, 2026, no new GTA 6 footage had an announced date, and insider Tom Henderson was predicting a third trailer in early August 2026, near Take-Two's earnings call.", "from": "reported", "to": "outdated", "reason": "Resolved by Rockstar's August 6, 2026 announcement of An Extended Look for August 27. The claim was rewritten from live present tense ('Trailer 3 has NO announced date') to a dated historical statement, because read today the old wording told readers no new footage was dated. expiresAt dropped: a superseded record has nothing left to re-verify.", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#trailer3-august-theory" }, { "date": "2026-08-02", "changeType": "status_changed", "kind": "corrected", "claimId": "fake-39m-preorders", "claim": "'39 million pre-orders / $3B in 24 hours' — a viral figure from one unsourced social post.", "from": "disproved", "to": "rumor", "reason": "Classification corrected. \"Disproved\" claimed this site had shown the figure to be false; it had not. Two fact-checks traced it to one unsourced post and found no supporting data, which establishes that it is unsupported. \"Rumor\" is the published definition that fits: a circulating claim with a named origin and no first-party confirmation. The article prose had said \"unsupported, not disproven\" since 2026-07-26 while the ledger status still said disproved.", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#fake-39m-preorders" }, { "date": "2026-07-26", "changeType": "corrected", "kind": "corrected", "claimId": "fake-39m-preorders", "claim": "'39 million pre-orders / $3B in 24 hours' — a viral figure from one unsourced social post.", "from": "disproved", "to": "disproved", "reason": "Evidence wording corrected: the record now states the figure is unsupported by a disclosed primary source rather than asserting it was proven false, and drops an analyst-comparison framing that compared a pre-order claim against a fiscal-year units estimate.", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#fake-39m-preorders" }, { "date": "2026-07-25", "changeType": "corrected", "kind": "corrected", "claimId": "editions-two", "claim": "Rockstar and the platform stores currently list two editions: Standard $79.99 and Ultimate $99.99. No Collector's Edition has been announced as of 2026-07-25.", "to": "official", "reason": "Reworded from \"exactly two / no Collector's Edition appears\" to a dated absence-of-announcement statement; absence of an announcement is not proof of non-existence.", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#editions-two" }, { "date": "2026-07-25", "changeType": "corrected", "kind": "corrected", "claimId": "fake-collectors-edition", "claim": "The viral GTA 6 'Collector's Edition' mockups and 'pre-order' listings are not official — none appears on Rockstar's Newswire or the first-party stores.", "to": "disproved", "reason": "Reworded to debunk the specific unofficial mockups/listings rather than assert non-existence of the concept.", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#fake-collectors-edition" }, { "date": "2026-07-23", "changeType": "corrected", "kind": "corrected", "claimId": "single-player-launch", "claim": "GTA 6 is currently described by Rockstar as a single-player experience. No multiplayer or successor online mode has been announced.", "to": "official", "reason": "evidenceNote sharpened: not-announced vs ruled-out distinction (independent review)", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#single-player-launch" }, { "date": "2026-07-23", "changeType": "created", "kind": "created", "claimId": "trailer3-august-theory", "claim": "As of July 23, 2026, no new GTA 6 footage had an announced date, and insider Tom Henderson was predicting a third trailer in early August 2026, near Take-Two's earnings call.", "to": "reported", "reason": "Source verified and entered", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#trailer3-august-theory" }, { "date": "2026-07-23", "changeType": "corrected", "kind": "corrected", "claimId": "vvcp-offer", "claim": "All pre-orders AND purchases before November 20, 2026 include the Vintage Vice City Pack. This is a purchase cutoff that includes launch-day purchases, not a pre-order deadline.", "to": "official", "reason": "Wording corrected: pre-orders AND purchases (was narrowed to pre-orders only) — independent review 2026-07-23", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#vvcp-offer" }, { "date": "2026-07-20", "changeType": "created", "kind": "created", "claimId": "online-32-players", "claim": "Court documents from Rockstar's suit against fired employees referenced online playtests with 'at least 32 players'.", "to": "reported", "reason": "Initial ledger entry (originator linked)", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#online-32-players" }, { "date": "2026-07-20", "changeType": "created", "kind": "created", "claimId": "voice-actors", "claim": "Manni Perez is widely reported as the voice of Lucia. Rockstar has confirmed NO cast member for any role.", "to": "rumor", "reason": "Initial ledger entry", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#voice-actors" }, { "date": "2026-07-19", "changeType": "created", "kind": "created", "claimId": "analyst-projections", "claim": "Analyst first-year projections: Piper Sandler ~35M copies; DFC Intelligence ~40M / $3.2B.", "to": "estimate", "reason": "Initial ledger entry", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#analyst-projections" }, { "date": "2026-07-19", "changeType": "created", "kind": "newly-confirmed", "claimId": "earnings-aug-7", "claim": "Take-Two reported Q1 FY2027 results on Friday, August 7, 2026, before U.S. market open. The release restated November 19, 2026 for GTA 6 and disclosed no pre-order total.", "to": "official", "reason": "Initial ledger entry", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#earnings-aug-7" }, { "date": "2026-07-19", "changeType": "created", "kind": "newly-confirmed", "claimId": "editions-two", "claim": "Rockstar and the platform stores currently list two editions: Standard $79.99 and Ultimate $99.99. No Collector's Edition has been announced as of 2026-07-25.", "to": "official", "reason": "Initial ledger entry", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#editions-two" }, { "date": "2026-07-19", "changeType": "created", "kind": "created", "claimId": "fake-collectors-edition", "claim": "The viral GTA 6 'Collector's Edition' mockups and 'pre-order' listings are not official — none appears on Rockstar's Newswire or the first-party stores.", "to": "disproved", "reason": "Initial ledger entry (debunk)", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#fake-collectors-edition" }, { "date": "2026-07-19", "changeType": "created", "kind": "newly-confirmed", "claimId": "fy27-guidance", "claim": "Take-Two reiterated FY2027 net bookings guidance of $8.0–8.2 billion at Q1 results on August 7, 2026.", "to": "official", "reason": "Initial ledger entry", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#fy27-guidance" }, { "date": "2026-07-19", "changeType": "created", "kind": "newly-confirmed", "claimId": "gta5-benchmark", "claim": "GTA 5 has sold ~230M lifetime units; its 2013 launch hit $1B in three days (Guinness-certified).", "to": "official", "reason": "Initial ledger entry", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#gta5-benchmark" }, { "date": "2026-07-19", "changeType": "created", "kind": "newly-confirmed", "claimId": "india-pricing", "claim": "India pricing on the PlayStation Store: ₹5,999 Standard / ₹7,499 Ultimate.", "to": "official", "reason": "Initial ledger entry", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#india-pricing" }, { "date": "2026-07-19", "changeType": "created", "kind": "newly-confirmed", "claimId": "launch-date", "claim": "GTA 6 launches Thursday, November 19, 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. The PlayStation listing additionally carries a PS5 Pro Enhanced badge.", "to": "official", "reason": "Initial ledger entry from Newswire post", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#launch-date" }, { "date": "2026-07-19", "changeType": "created", "kind": "newly-confirmed", "claimId": "no-disc", "claim": "The boxed physical edition contains a download code, not a disc.", "to": "official", "reason": "Initial ledger entry", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#no-disc" }, { "date": "2026-07-19", "changeType": "created", "kind": "newly-confirmed", "claimId": "no-pc", "claim": "No PC version has been announced.", "to": "official", "reason": "Initial ledger entry", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#no-pc" }, { "date": "2026-07-19", "changeType": "created", "kind": "newly-confirmed", "claimId": "preload-nov-12", "claim": "Digital pre-load opens November 12, 2026; boxed copies ship from the same date.", "to": "official", "reason": "Initial ledger entry", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#preload-nov-12" }, { "date": "2026-07-19", "changeType": "created", "kind": "newly-confirmed", "claimId": "preorders-open", "claim": "Pre-orders opened June 25, 2026, at midnight local time, region by region.", "to": "official", "reason": "Initial ledger entry", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#preorders-open" }, { "date": "2026-07-19", "changeType": "created", "kind": "newly-confirmed", "claimId": "protagonists", "claim": "The protagonists are Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos; the setting is the state of Leonida with regions including Vice City, Leonida Keys, Grassrivers, Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia and Mount Kalaga.", "to": "official", "reason": "Initial ledger entry", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#protagonists" }, { "date": "2026-07-19", "changeType": "created", "kind": "newly-confirmed", "claimId": "single-player-launch", "claim": "GTA 6 is currently described by Rockstar as a single-player experience. No multiplayer or successor online mode has been announced.", "to": "official", "reason": "Initial entry", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#single-player-launch" }, { "date": "2026-07-19", "changeType": "created", "kind": "newly-confirmed", "claimId": "trailer1-record", "claim": "Trailer 1 (December 4, 2023) set the Guinness record for most-viewed video game reveal in 24 hours (93M+ views).", "to": "official", "reason": "Initial ledger entry", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#trailer1-record" }, { "date": "2026-07-19", "changeType": "created", "kind": "newly-confirmed", "claimId": "trailer2-date", "claim": "Trailer 2 released May 6, 2025, captured on PS5 hardware.", "to": "official", "reason": "Initial ledger entry", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#trailer2-date" }, { "date": "2026-07-19", "changeType": "created", "kind": "newly-confirmed", "claimId": "vvcp-offer", "claim": "All pre-orders AND purchases before November 20, 2026 include the Vintage Vice City Pack. This is a purchase cutoff that includes launch-day purchases, not a pre-order deadline.", "to": "official", "reason": "Initial entry", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#vvcp-offer" }, { "date": "2026-07-08", "changeType": "status_changed", "kind": "downgraded", "claimId": "fake-39m-preorders", "claim": "'39 million pre-orders / $3B in 24 hours' — a viral figure from one unsourced social post.", "from": "rumor", "to": "disproved", "reason": "Traced to a single unsourced post; no primary source found", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#fake-39m-preorders" }, { "date": "2026-06-27", "changeType": "created", "kind": "created", "claimId": "fake-39m-preorders", "claim": "'39 million pre-orders / $3B in 24 hours' — a viral figure from one unsourced social post.", "to": "rumor", "reason": "Viral claim appeared", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#fake-39m-preorders" }, { "date": "2025-11-06", "changeType": "superseded", "kind": "superseded", "claimId": "prior-date-may-26", "claim": "The launch date was previously May 26, 2026, announced May 2, 2025.", "from": "official", "to": "outdated", "reason": "Superseded by November 19, 2026", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#prior-date-may-26" }, { "date": "2025-05-02", "changeType": "superseded", "kind": "superseded", "claimId": "coming-2025", "claim": "Trailer 1's announcement said 'Coming 2025'.", "from": "official", "to": "outdated", "reason": "Specific date (May 26, 2026) announced", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#coming-2025" }, { "date": "2025-05-02", "changeType": "created", "kind": "newly-confirmed", "claimId": "prior-date-may-26", "claim": "The launch date was previously May 26, 2026, announced May 2, 2025.", "to": "official", "reason": "Date announced", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#prior-date-may-26" }, { "date": "2023-12-05", "changeType": "created", "kind": "newly-confirmed", "claimId": "coming-2025", "claim": "Trailer 1's announcement said 'Coming 2025'.", "to": "official", "reason": "Announced with Trailer 1", "permalink": "https://neonpulsehq.com/gta-6-confirmed#coming-2025" } ] }