The Fact Ledger · Version 2026-07-23
GTA 6 confirmed: the living record
15 claims currently hold Official status — stated by Rockstar, Take-Two, or a platform holder at a source you can open. Everything else is labeled for what it is: reporting, estimates, rumors, the disproved, and the superseded. Every entry shows when we last verified it and how its status has changed. Full source list: the Source Ledger.
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- Official 15
- Reported 2
- Estimate 1
- Rumor 1
- Disproved 2
- Superseded 2
Official 15
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, PS5 Pro and Xbox Series X|S.
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.
Rockstar Games Newswire ↗ Verified 2026-07-22 · re-check due 2026-11-19
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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.
Rockstar Games Newswire ↗ Verified 2026-07-22
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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.
Rockstar Games Newswire ↗ support.rockstargames.com ↗ Verified 2026-07-23 · re-check due 2026-11-20
Status history (2)
- 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.
Take-Two Interactive (IR) ↗ support.rockstargames.com ↗ Verified 2026-07-25
Status history (2)
- 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.
Rockstar Support ↗ Verified 2026-07-22
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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.
Rockstar Games Newswire ↗ Verified 2026-07-22 · re-check due 2026-11-12
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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.
Rockstar Games Newswire ↗ Verified 2026-07-23
Status history (2)
- 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.
Rockstar Games ↗ Verified 2026-07-22
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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.
Rockstar Games ↗ Verified 2026-07-22
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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.
Guinness World Records ↗ youtube.com ↗ Verified 2026-07-22
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Trailer 2 released May 6, 2025, captured on PS5 hardware.
Tagline 'Explore Vice City and beyond'.
Rockstar Games Newswire ↗ youtube.com ↗ Verified 2026-07-22
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Take-Two guides FY2027 net bookings of $8.0–8.2 billion, driven by the November 19 launch.
Company guidance — the only official financial commitment tied to the launch. expiresAt = next earnings (guidance may be updated Aug 7).
Take-Two Interactive (IR) ↗ Verified 2026-07-22 · re-check due 2026-08-07
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Take-Two reports Q1 FY2027 earnings on August 7, 2026 — the next scheduled event where launch information could surface.
Scheduled corporate event; expires the day after it happens.
Take-Two Interactive (IR) ↗ Verified 2026-07-22 · re-check due 2026-08-08
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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.
Guinness World Records ↗ vgchartz.com ↗ Verified 2026-07-22
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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).
PlayStation Store (India) ↗ Verified 2026-07-22 · re-check due 2026-08-22
Reported 2
Published by a named original outlet or record; real reporting, not an announcement.
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Trailer 3 has NO announced date. Insider Tom Henderson predicts early August 2026 near the earnings call.
Henderson is explicit this is pattern-reading from Take-Two's marketing plans, NOT sourced information. Status 'reported' = the prediction is real and attributed; the trailer date itself remains unknown. Expires mid-August: either it happened or the theory failed.
Gameranx (reporting Henderson/Insider Gaming podcast) ↗ Verified 2026-07-23 · re-check due 2026-08-15
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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.
Kotaku (original coverage of the court filing) ↗ Verified 2026-07-22
Estimate 1
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.
Yahoo Finance (Piper Sandler note coverage) ↗ gamefragger.com ↗ Verified 2026-07-22
Rumor 1
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.
Sportskeeda (casting-claim origin coverage) ↗ Verified 2026-07-22
Disproved 2
Checked and found false; kept on the record so it stays dead.
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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. Treat it as unsupported by any disclosed primary source.
Khel Now (fact-check) ↗ gamingamigos.com ↗ Verified 2026-07-22
Status history (3)
- 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.
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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.
Rockstar Support ↗ Verified 2026-07-25
Status history (2)
- 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 2
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.
GTABase (contemporaneous report of the Rockstar announcement) ↗ Verified 2026-07-22
Status history (2)
- 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.
Rockstar Games Newswire ↗ Verified 2026-07-22
Status history (2)
- 2023-12-05: official — Announced with Trailer 1
- 2025-05-02: official → outdated — Specific date (May 26, 2026) announced
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.