Grand Theft Auto VI · living fact ledger
GTA 6, confirmed
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26 tracked claims, 18 of them sourced to a first-party Rockstar or Take-Two document. Data version 2026-09-15. Every row carries a primary source URL and a last-verified date.
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Stated by Rockstar, Take-Two, or a platform holder at the linked first-party source.
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GTA 6 launches Thursday, November 19, 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. The PlayStation listing additionally carries a PS5 Pro Enhanced badge.
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.
Grand Theft Auto VI is Now Set to Launch November 19, 2026 ↗ sec.gov ↗
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- 2026-09-15: official → official — 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.
- 2026-07-19: official — Initial ledger entry from Newswire post
- 2026-08-22: official → official — 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.
- 2026-08-08: official → official — 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.
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Pre-orders opened June 25, 2026, at midnight local time, region by region.
The June 24 post announced the June 25 opening; updated note confirms global availability.
Pre-Order Grand Theft Auto VI on June 25 ↗ take2games.com ↗
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- 2026-09-15: official → official — 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.
- 2026-07-19: official — Initial ledger entry
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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.
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.
Pre-Order Grand Theft Auto VI on June 25 ↗ support.rockstargames.com ↗
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- 2026-09-15: official → official — 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.
- 2026-07-19: official — Initial entry
- 2026-07-23: official — Wording corrected: pre-orders AND purchases (was narrowed to pre-orders only) — independent review 2026-07-23
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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.
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.
Rockstar Games Announces Pre-Orders for Grand Theft Auto VI ↗ support.rockstargames.com ↗
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- 2026-09-15: official → official — 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.
- 2026-07-19: official — Initial ledger entry
- 2026-07-25: official — 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.
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The boxed physical edition contains a download code, not a disc.
Install requires an internet connection even though the campaign is single-player.
Grand Theft Auto VI Platforms, Editions, and Versions ↗
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- 2026-09-15: official → official — 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.
- 2026-07-19: official — Initial ledger entry
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Digital pre-load opens November 12, 2026; boxed copies ship from the same date.
Physical buyers install from the code in the box, so their pre-load depends on delivery.
Pre-Order Grand Theft Auto VI on June 25 ↗ support.rockstargames.com ↗
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- 2026-09-15: official → official — 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.
- 2026-07-19: official — Initial ledger entry
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GTA 6 is currently described by Rockstar as a single-player experience. No multiplayer or successor online mode has been announced.
Precision boundary: 'not announced' is NOT 'officially ruled out'. Rockstar has not excluded a future online mode; it simply has not announced one.
Pre-Order Grand Theft Auto VI on June 25 ↗ take2games.com ↗
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- 2026-09-15: official → official — 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.
- 2026-07-19: official — Initial entry
- 2026-07-23: official — evidenceNote sharpened: not-announced vs ruled-out distinction (independent review)
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No PC version has been announced.
Official page lists PS5 and Xbox Series X|S only. Historical console→PC gaps (GTA 5 ~19mo, RDR2 ~13mo) are analysis, not announcement.
Grand Theft Auto VI - Rockstar Games (official game page) ↗
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- 2026-09-15: official → official — 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.
- 2026-07-19: official — Initial ledger entry
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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.
The Only in Leonida page is the richest official character/region source; supporting cast also named there.
Grand Theft Auto VI — Only in Leonida (people and places) ↗
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Trailer 1 (December 4, 2023) set the Guinness record for most-viewed video game reveal in 24 hours (93M+ views).
YouTube premiere Dec 4; the Newswire post is dated Dec 5 — cite the upload for the premiere date.
Most viewed videogame reveal trailer on YouTube in 24 hours ↗ youtube.com ↗
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Trailer 2 released May 6, 2025, captured on PS5 hardware.
Tagline 'Explore Vice City and beyond'.
Grand Theft Auto VI — Watch Trailer 2 Now ↗ youtube.com ↗
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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.
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.
Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look ↗ rockstargames.com ↗
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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.
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.
Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look ↗ rockstargames.com ↗
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- 2026-08-28: official → official — 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.
- 2026-08-07: official — Announced Aug 6, 2026; verified on Newswire, the GTA VI page banner and Rockstar's official YouTube channel on 2026-08-07
- 2026-08-27: official → official — 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.
- 2026-08-24: official → official — 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.
- 2026-08-23: official → official — 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.
- 2026-08-28: official → official — 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.
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Rockstar states that Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look was 'Captured entirely from in-game footage on PlayStation 5'.
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.
Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look — Now Playing ↗
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Take-Two reiterated FY2027 net bookings guidance of $8.0–8.2 billion at Q1 results on August 7, 2026.
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.
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Reports Results for Fiscal First Quarter 2027 ↗
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- 2026-07-19: official — Initial ledger entry
- 2026-08-07: official → official — 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.
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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.
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.
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Reports Results for Fiscal First Quarter 2027 ↗ take2games.com ↗
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- 2026-07-19: official — Initial ledger entry
- 2026-08-08: official → official — 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.
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GTA 5 has sold ~230M lifetime units; its 2013 launch hit $1B in three days (Guinness-certified).
230M is the Take-Two-reported catalog figure (May 2026); the 2013 records are Guinness-certified.
Confirmed: Grand Theft Auto 5 breaks 6 sales world records ↗ vgchartz.com ↗
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India pricing on the PlayStation Store: ₹5,999 Standard / ₹7,499 Ultimate.
Store listing renders prices with "Rs". Price claims are region+timestamp-bound; re-verify monthly (expiresAt).
Grand Theft Auto VI - PS5 Games | PlayStation (India) ↗ store.playstation.com ↗
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- 2026-09-15: official → official — 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.
- 2026-07-19: official — Initial ledger entry
- 2026-08-23: official → official — 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.
Reported 1
Published by a named original outlet or record; real reporting, not an announcement.
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Court documents from Rockstar's suit against fired employees referenced online playtests with 'at least 32 players'.
A floor from an internal message in a legal filing — not a spec, not an announcement. No online mode is announced.
A Detail About GTA 6's Super Secret Multiplayer Just Got Accidentally Revealed ↗
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A named analyst or method produced this number; it is a forecast, not a fact.
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Analyst first-year projections: Piper Sandler ~35M copies; DFC Intelligence ~40M / $3.2B.
Method: named-analyst forecasts as reported; never company guidance. Uncertainty: forecasts predate launch by months.
GTA 6 Could Sell 35 Million Copies By April 2027, Report Says ↗ gamefragger.com ↗
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Rumor 2
Circulating claim with a named origin and no first-party confirmation.
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Manni Perez is widely reported as the voice of Lucia. Rockstar has confirmed NO cast member for any role.
Consistent across outlets but zero first-party confirmation; Rockstar historically never confirms performers pre-launch.
Who is Manni L. Perez, and why is she likely to be GTA 6's voice actor? ↗
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'39 million pre-orders / $3B in 24 hours' — a viral figure from one unsourced social post.
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.
FACT CHECK: Did GTA 6 pre-orders sell 39 million copies & did $3 Billion in revenue? ↗ gamingamigos.com ↗
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- 2026-06-27: rumor — Viral claim appeared
- 2026-07-08: rumor → disproved — Traced to a single unsourced post; no primary source found
- 2026-07-26: disproved → disproved — 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.
- 2026-08-02: disproved → rumor — 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.
Disproved 1
Checked and found false; kept on the record so it stays dead.
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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.
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.
Grand Theft Auto VI Platforms, Editions, and Versions ↗
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- 2026-09-15: disproved → disproved — 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.
- 2026-07-19: disproved — Initial ledger entry (debunk)
- 2026-07-25: disproved — Reworded to debunk the specific unofficial mockups/listings rather than assert non-existence of the concept.
Superseded 3
Was official, later replaced; the history is preserved, not deleted.
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The launch date was previously May 26, 2026, announced May 2, 2025.
Superseded Nov 6, 2025 by the Nov 19 date — the only announced-date move on record.
GTA VI Officially Delayed, Now Set To Release May 26, 2026 ↗
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- 2025-05-02: official — Date announced
- 2025-11-06: official → outdated — Superseded by November 19, 2026
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Trailer 1's announcement said 'Coming 2025'.
An open window, never a dated commitment; superseded by both specific dates.
Grand Theft Auto VI - Watch Trailer 1 Now ↗
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Replaced by: The launch date was previously May 26, 2026, announced May 2, 2025.
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- 2023-12-05: official — Announced with Trailer 1
- 2025-05-02: official → outdated — Specific date (May 26, 2026) announced
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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.
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.
Tom Henderson Says He Is 'Sticking To My Guns' On GTA 6's 3rd Trailer Coming Early August ↗
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- 2026-07-23: reported — Source verified and entered
- 2026-08-07: reported → outdated — 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.
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- Official 18
- Reported 1
- Estimate 1
- Rumor 2
- Disproved 1
- Superseded 3
What changed
Every status move on the record, newest first. A ledger that only ever grows is not being maintained — downgrades and supersessions matter more than additions, so they are listed in the same place rather than quietly edited away.
- 2026-09-15 Re-verified 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. official → official — 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.
- 2026-09-15 Re-verified 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. disproved → disproved — 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.
- 2026-09-15 Re-verified India pricing on the PlayStation Store: ₹5,999 Standard / ₹7,499 Ultimate. official → official — 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.
- 2026-09-15 Re-verified GTA 6 launches Thursday, November 19, 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. The PlayStation listing additionally carries a PS5 Pro Enhanced badge. official → official — 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.
- 2026-09-15 Re-verified The boxed physical edition contains a download code, not a disc. official → official — 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.
Full history for all 56 recorded changes is in /claims.json.
Methodology
A claim enters this ledger only with a source we opened and verified on the stated date, a named reviewer, and a change log. Official requires a first-party source. Reported requires the named original outlet — an aggregator citing another aggregator does not qualify. Estimates name the analyst. Rumors keep their origin attached and are never upgraded by repetition. Disproved and superseded claims stay on the record. The tier definitions and correction process live in the editorial policy; the dated announcement timeline is on the Record.