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THE GTA 6 FACT LEDGER
EVERY CLAIM, GRADED TO ITS SOURCE

136 claims about Grand Theft Auto VI, each one traced to the source it actually came from and graded by how much that source can carry. Including the claims everybody repeats that Rockstar has never made.

136
Claims Tracked
100
Confirmed
9
Likely
24
Not Stated
3
Debunked
CONFIRMEDRockstar or Take-Two published it. The link goes to their words.
LIKELYOne inference step from official material. The step is named on the record.
NOT STATEDWidely repeated. Never officially said — including claims that trace to credible leaks. The link goes where it would be if it were real.
DEBUNKEDOfficial material contradicts it.
WHAT MOVEDlast 12 changes

Nothing moved this week. Rockstar has published nothing new about Grand Theft Auto VI since the June 24 pre-order announcement, so the most recent movement below is three weeks old. A ledger that manufactured activity on a quiet week would be worth less than one that says it was quiet.

These are the dates the sources moved, not the dates we wrote the records — this is the ledger’s first build, so every record was logged on 2026-07-16 and none of them say so here. A further 10 claims carry no date at all: they are things nobody official has ever said, and an absence has no date.

2026-07-02GTA 6 pre-orders have generated $3 billion. · NOT STATED
2026-06-25The Ultimate Edition Upgrade costs $20. · NOT STATED
2026-06-25Pre-orders opened on June 25, 2026, at midnight local time. · CONFIRMED
2026-06-25Rockstar Store pre-orders are limited to a published list of about thirty countries. · CONFIRMED
2026-06-25The Ultimate Edition Upgrade can be bought separately after buying the Standard Edition. · CONFIRMED
2026-06-24Five of the Ultimate Edition items are storefronts. · LIKELY
2026-06-24The Ultimate Edition includes personalized weapon variants. · CONFIRMED
2026-06-24The Ultimate Edition includes a Vice City Style item set. · CONFIRMED
2026-06-24The Ultimate Edition includes Stock 305 Clothing Store. · CONFIRMED
2026-06-24The Ultimate Edition includes a Shitzu Squalo. · CONFIRMED
2026-06-24The Ultimate Edition includes Sara's Unisex Salon. · CONFIRMED
2026-06-24The Ultimate Edition includes Rideout Customs Mod Shop. · CONFIRMED
Showing all 136 claims.
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📅RELEASE DATE & DELAYS9 claims
Grand Theft Auto VI launches on November 19, 2026.CONFIRMED
Rockstar set this date in November 2025 and Take-Two restated it in the June 24, 2026 pre-order release. Two independent official surfaces, same date.
Source: Take-Two Interactive investor press release, June 24, 2026 · publisher-press-release
First seen 2025-11-06Last changed 2025-11-06Logged 2026-07-16#release-date-nov-19-2026
November 19, 2026 is a Thursday, and Rockstar named the weekday itself.CONFIRMED
Small detail, load-bearing for launch-day planning: Rockstar wrote the weekday into the announcement rather than leaving it to be calculated.
Source: Rockstar Newswire, November 6, 2025 — launch moved to November 19, 2026 · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-11-06Last changed 2025-11-06Logged 2026-07-16#release-day-is-a-thursday
Before the current date, GTA 6 was scheduled for May 26, 2026.CONFIRMED
Superseded on November 6, 2025. Kept in the ledger because the delay history is the best available evidence about how Rockstar handles dates.
Source: Rockstar Newswire, May 2, 2025 — launch moved to May 26, 2026 · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-02Last changed 2025-11-06Logged 2026-07-16#prior-date-may-26-2026
The first trailer gave the release window as 2025.CONFIRMED
Superseded twice. From 2025 to May 2026 to November 2026.
Source: Rockstar Newswire, December 5, 2023 — Trailer 1 · rockstar-official
First seen 2023-12-05Last changed 2025-05-02Logged 2026-07-16#prior-window-2025
Rockstar's stated reason for the November 2026 delay was finishing the game to the level of polish players expect.CONFIRMED
This is Rockstar's stated reason. It is not the same as the actual reason, which nobody outside Rockstar knows.
Source: Rockstar Newswire, November 6, 2025 — launch moved to November 19, 2026 · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-11-06Last changed 2025-11-06Logged 2026-07-16#delay-reason-polish
Rockstar's stated reason for the May 2025 delay was needing extra time to deliver at the expected level of quality.CONFIRMED
Near-identical framing to the second delay seven months later.
Source: Rockstar Newswire, May 2, 2025 — launch moved to May 26, 2026 · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-02Last changed 2025-05-02Logged 2026-07-16#delay-reason-quality-may
Rockstar apologised publicly for the added wait in its delay announcement.CONFIRMED
Posted to X and the Newswire the same day, in the same words.
Source: Rockstar Games on X, November 6, 2025 — delay statement · rockstar-social
First seen 2025-11-06Last changed 2025-11-06Logged 2026-07-16#delay-apology-published
GTA 6 will be delayed a third time.NOT STATED
Listed because it circulates constantly, not because there is evidence for it. No delay past November 19, 2026 has been announced. The Newswire is where it would appear; both previous delays were posted there first. This record is a watch item, not a prediction.
Source: Rockstar Newswire — the full announcement archive · rockstar-official
No source to dateLogged 2026-07-16#no-further-delay-announced
Digital pre-orders can begin pre-loading on November 12, 2026.CONFIRMED
Seven days before launch.
Source: Take-Two Interactive investor press release, June 24, 2026 · publisher-press-release
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#preload-november-12
💵PRICING5 claims
The Standard Edition costs $79.99 USD.CONFIRMED
Stated in the Take-Two press release. Prior to June 24 every price figure in circulation was a guess, including ours.
Source: Take-Two Interactive investor press release, June 24, 2026 · publisher-press-release
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#price-standard-79-99
The Ultimate Edition costs $99.99 USD.CONFIRMED
Same source, same sentence family.
Source: Take-Two Interactive investor press release, June 24, 2026 · publisher-press-release
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#price-ultimate-99-99
The Ultimate Edition Upgrade costs $20.NOT STATED
$99.99 minus $79.99 is arithmetic, not a price. Rockstar confirmed the upgrade exists and can be bought separately at any time, but published no figure for it. The $20 is probably right — that is not the point. The point is that outlets are printing it as a confirmed Rockstar price, and it is a subtraction they did themselves. If the upgrade ships at a number other than $20, every one of those pages was wrong and this record was not.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-25Last changed 2026-06-25Logged 2026-07-16#price-upgrade-unknown
Rockstar has published an official GTA 6 price list for regions outside the US.NOT STATED
The announcement gives USD only. Local prices do exist — every regional storefront lists one — but they come from the storefronts, not from a Rockstar price list, and they do not all convert cleanly from $79.99. Check your own store. Every non-USD figure on this site, including ours, is a store reading rather than an official number.
Source: Take-Two Interactive investor press release, June 24, 2026 · publisher-press-release
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#price-only-usd-published
GTA 6 costs $69.99.DEBUNKED
$69.99 was the most common pre-announcement prediction and it was wrong. Included because it is still in circulation and was on this site until June.
Source: Take-Two Interactive investor press release, June 24, 2026 · publisher-press-release
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#price-79-99-not-69-99
📦EDITIONS & PRE-ORDER BONUSES24 claims
GTA 6 has exactly two editions: Standard and Ultimate.CONFIRMED
Rockstar's own edition comparison shows two tabs. Every additional tier reported anywhere is someone's invention.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#editions-two-only
A Collector's Edition of GTA 6 exists.NOT STATED
It does not appear on Rockstar's edition page. Nor does a Deluxe, Special, or Premium tier. This site carried phantom tiers until June 2026 and they were removed once the real structure was published.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#edition-collectors-nonexistent
The Standard Edition is sold as digital or as a code in a box.CONFIRMED
Rockstar labels the Standard tab exactly this way — “Digital or Code in Box.”
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#edition-standard-formats
The Ultimate Edition is digital only.CONFIRMED
Rockstar labels the Ultimate tab “Digital.” There is no boxed Ultimate.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#edition-ultimate-digital-only
The Ultimate Edition's extra content is threaded through the story rather than bundled as a separate mode.CONFIRMED
Rockstar describes the collection as threaded across all aspects of Jason and Lucia's story. That framing is the reason the upgrade decision is not purely cosmetic.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#edition-ultimate-scope
The Ultimate Edition Upgrade can be bought separately after buying the Standard Edition.CONFIRMED
Rockstar lists the upgrade as an add-on requiring the base game. This removes the deadline from the $99.99 decision, and it received almost no coverage.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-25Last changed 2026-06-25Logged 2026-07-16#edition-upgrade-sold-separately
The Ultimate Edition includes a '95 Grotti Cheetah.CONFIRMED
One of the very few GTA 6 vehicles Rockstar has named itself.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#ult-item-grotti-cheetah
The Ultimate Edition includes Hawk & Little Morgan Revolvers.CONFIRMED
Hawk & Little is a returning in-fiction manufacturer. The Morgan model name is new.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#ult-item-morgan-revolvers
The Ultimate Edition includes personalized weapon variants.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#ult-item-weapon-variants
The Ultimate Edition includes a Vice City Style item set.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#ult-item-vice-city-style
The Ultimate Edition includes Jason's Safehouse Vehicles.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#ult-item-jason-safehouse-vehicles
The Ultimate Edition includes a Ganado Retro Build.CONFIRMED
Rockstar named this item and this site has no page on it. Flagged as a coverage gap rather than quietly ignored.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#ult-item-ganado-retro-build
The Ultimate Edition includes Rideout Customs Mod Shop.CONFIRMED
One of two mod shops in the Ultimate Edition. Car customisation sitting behind the paid tier is the genuinely contested part of the June announcement.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#ult-item-rideout-customs
The Ultimate Edition includes Sara's Unisex Salon.CONFIRMED
Rockstar-named, zero pages on this site as of v217.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#ult-item-saras-salon
The Ultimate Edition includes a Shitzu Squalo.CONFIRMED
The Squalo's own item copy is where fishing in GTA 6 actually traces to — not to any trailer, and not to the Mount Kalaga blurb the press cited.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#ult-item-shitzu-squalo
The Ultimate Edition includes Stock 305 Clothing Store.CONFIRMED
Stock 305 is the clothing store. Stockyard is a district; Electric Fang is the tattoo parlour inside it. Several outlets merged the two into a streetwear shop that does not exist. We nearly published the same error and caught it in review — by cross-checking four summaries against each other and getting agreement.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#ult-item-stock-305
The Ultimate Edition includes a '67 Vapid Dominator Buggy.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#ult-item-dominator-buggy
The Ultimate Edition includes Electric Fang Tattoo Parlor.CONFIRMED
A tattoo parlour, not a clothing store.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#ult-item-electric-fang
The Ultimate Edition includes One-Eyed Willie's Mod Shop.CONFIRMED
The second of the two Ultimate mod shops. Rockstar-named, zero pages on this site as of v217.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#ult-item-one-eyed-willies
The Ultimate Edition includes Goodtime Gear.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#ult-item-goodtime-gear
The Ultimate Edition includes the PTT Youngin$ Illegal Goods Store.CONFIRMED
Rockstar's edition page calls it an Illegal Goods Store. Other Rockstar surfaces have called the same item a compound. Two official surfaces, two names — logged rather than resolved, because we cannot resolve it.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#ult-item-ptt-youngins
The Ultimate Edition includes a Classic Car Collection.CONFIRMED
Widely reported as Wyman's Classic Car Collection. Rockstar's edition page lists it without the name attached.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#ult-item-classic-car-collection
Rockstar lists sixteen distinct items under the Ultimate Edition.CONFIRMED
Counted directly off Rockstar's edition page on 2026-07-16, excluding the two pre-order bonuses that also apply to Standard.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#ult-item-count-16
Five of the Ultimate Edition items are storefronts.LIKELY
Rideout Customs, Sara's Unisex Salon, Stock 305, Electric Fang, One-Eyed Willie's. The inference step: Rockstar does not label them as a group, so the count is ours, from its list. Two are mod shops.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#ult-storefront-count-five
💳PRE-ORDERS8 claims
Pre-orders opened on June 25, 2026, at midnight local time.CONFIRMED
“Midnight local time” meant the rollout moved across time zones rather than opening globally at once.
Source: Rockstar Newswire, June 24, 2026 — “Pre-Order Grand Theft Auto VI on June 25” · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-25Logged 2026-07-16#preorders-opened-june-25
Rockstar announced the June 25 pre-order date a week in advance, on June 18, 2026.CONFIRMED
The June 18 post gave the date. The June 24 post gave the prices. Two separate beats, often collapsed into one in later coverage.
Source: Rockstar Newswire, June 18, 2026 — pre-orders begin June 25 · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-18Last changed 2026-06-18Logged 2026-07-16#preorder-date-pre-announced
Every pre-order or purchase made before November 20, 2026 includes the Vintage Vice City Pack.CONFIRMED
Both editions, not Ultimate only. The deadline is the day after launch, which is unusually generous and widely misreported as a pre-order-only window.
Source: Take-Two Interactive investor press release, June 24, 2026 · publisher-press-release
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#bonus-vintage-vice-city-pack
The Vintage Vice City Pack is exclusive to the Ultimate Edition.DEBUNKED
Rockstar lists it as a pre-order bonus on the Standard tab as well. Buying Ultimate is not required to get it.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#bonus-pack-applies-to-standard
Digital pre-orders include a free month of GTA+.CONFIRMED
Digital only. A code-in-box buyer does not get it.
Source: Take-Two Interactive investor press release, June 24, 2026 · publisher-press-release
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#bonus-gta-plus-free-month
The free GTA+ month is redeemable immediately rather than at launch.CONFIRMED
Take-Two's wording is explicit that it is instantly redeemable, which is why it is a GTA Online benefit in 2026 rather than a GTA 6 benefit in November.
Source: Take-Two Interactive investor press release, June 24, 2026 · publisher-press-release
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#bonus-gta-plus-instant
GTA 6 is sold through the PlayStation Store, Microsoft Store, the Rockstar Games Store, and global retailers.CONFIRMED
Source: Take-Two Interactive investor press release, June 24, 2026 · publisher-press-release
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#storefronts-official
Rockstar Store pre-orders are limited to a published list of about thirty countries.CONFIRMED
Rockstar Support publishes the list. Availability elsewhere depends on platform policy, regional regulation, and age ratings — which is Rockstar's own stated caveat, not ours.
Source: Rockstar Support — GTA VI pre-order details · rockstar-support
First seen 2026-06-25Last changed 2026-06-25Logged 2026-07-16#preorder-region-list
💿PHYSICAL COPIES4 claims
The physical version of GTA 6 contains a download code inside the box.CONFIRMED
Source: Take-Two Interactive investor press release, June 24, 2026 · publisher-press-release
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#physical-download-code
The physical version of GTA 6 contains a disc.DEBUNKED
Directly contradicted: the box holds a code. This has consequences the coverage mostly skipped — no resale, no lending, and a disc-drive-less console is no longer a reason to buy physical.
Source: Take-Two Interactive investor press release, June 24, 2026 · publisher-press-release
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#physical-has-disc
The physical version becomes available starting November 12, 2026.CONFIRMED
Take-Two states the boxed version arrives on the 12th specifically so code-in-box buyers can pre-load alongside digital buyers. A week before launch, not on launch day.
Source: Take-Two Interactive investor press release, June 24, 2026 · publisher-press-release
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#physical-avail-november-12
Steelbook or retailer-exclusive physical variants exist.NOT STATED
None are listed anywhere official. There is also no disc to put in a steelbook.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#physical-steelbook
🎮PLATFORMS8 claims
GTA 6 launches on PlayStation 5.CONFIRMED
Named on every official surface since Trailer 1.
Source: Take-Two Interactive investor press release, June 24, 2026 · publisher-press-release
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2023-12-05Logged 2026-07-16#platform-ps5
GTA 6 launches on Xbox Series X|S.CONFIRMED
Source: Take-Two Interactive investor press release, June 24, 2026 · publisher-press-release
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2023-12-05Logged 2026-07-16#platform-xbox-series
GTA 6 is coming to PC.NOT STATED
Rockstar has never announced a PC version, a PC window, or a PC date, and its own site still lists two platforms. Take-Two's CEO has addressed it directly, though, which is why this record is graded rather than blank. Asked for a PC framework on the Q4 FY2026 earnings call (May 21, 2026), Strauss Zelnick called PC a great market that the company serves avidly and said virtually all of its hit titles reach every platform over time — then drew the line himself: “That said, Rockstar Games has announced GTA 6 for console only so far.” Quotes in circulation routinely stop one sentence short of that. A pattern described about past titles, with the application to this one withheld by the speaker, is not an announcement. GTA V reached PC 19 months after console: precedent, not commitment.
Source: Rockstar Games — Grand Theft Auto VI official site · rockstar-official
Source: Take-Two Q4 FY2026 earnings call, May 21, 2026 — full transcript · publisher-earnings-call
First seen 2023-12-05Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#platform-pc
GTA 6 is coming to Nintendo Switch 2.NOT STATED
No official statement of any kind exists.
Source: Rockstar Games — Grand Theft Auto VI official site · rockstar-official
No source to dateLogged 2026-07-16#platform-switch-2
GTA 6 is coming to PS4 or Xbox One.NOT STATED
Never announced, and the trailer platform line has excluded last-gen from the beginning.
Source: Rockstar Games — Grand Theft Auto VI official site · rockstar-official
First seen 2023-12-05Last changed 2023-12-05Logged 2026-07-16#platform-last-gen
Rockstar's GTA 6 site carries a “Plays Best On PlayStation 5” badge.CONFIRMED
A marketing arrangement, not a technical claim. It sits on Rockstar's own site and links to a PlayStation features page. Nothing published says what, if anything, differs on Xbox.
Source: Rockstar Games — Grand Theft Auto VI official site · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#platform-plays-best-ps5
PlayStation hosts a GTA VI features page that Rockstar links to directly.CONFIRMED
Linked from the footer of rockstargames.com/VI. Worth watching — platform-exclusive framing tends to arrive there before it arrives on the Newswire.
Source: PlayStation — GTA VI features page (linked from Rockstar's VI site) · platform-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#platform-ps5-benefits-page
GTA 6 is available to pre-order on Steam.NOT STATED
Follows from there being no PC version. Take-Two's storefront list names three digital stores and Steam is not among them.
Source: Take-Two Interactive investor press release, June 24, 2026 · publisher-press-release
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#storefront-steam
🌐MULTIPLAYER & ONLINE3 claims
Take-Two describes GTA 6 as a single-player experience.CONFIRMED
The exact framing sits in the first paragraph of the pre-order press release. It is the single most consequential wording in the whole June announcement and got the least attention.
Source: Take-Two Interactive investor press release, June 24, 2026 · publisher-press-release
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#single-player-experience
GTA 6 ships with an online or multiplayer mode at launch.NOT STATED
Not announced, and the official framing points the other way. GTA V shipped single-player first and added Online 22 days later, so the pattern is available — but a pattern is not a plan.
Source: Take-Two Interactive investor press release, June 24, 2026 · publisher-press-release
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#gta6-online-at-launch
GTA 6 will eventually get an online mode.LIKELY
The inference step: GTA Online is Take-Two's largest recurrent-spending business and the free GTA+ month is being used to keep GTA Online buyers warm. That is commercial logic, not an announcement. Rockstar has said nothing.
Source: Take-Two Interactive investor press release, June 24, 2026 · publisher-press-release
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#gta6-online-ever
⭐GTA+2 claims
The GTA+ month gives access to the GTA+ Games Library, which includes Grand Theft Auto V.CONFIRMED
Source: Take-Two Interactive investor press release, June 24, 2026 · publisher-press-release
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#bonus-gta-plus-library
The free GTA+ month carries over into GTA 6 benefits at launch.NOT STATED
Take-Two describes the month in GTA Online and Games Library terms only. Whether GTA+ does anything in GTA 6 has not been addressed at all.
Source: Take-Two Interactive investor press release, June 24, 2026 · publisher-press-release
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#bonus-gta-plus-carries-to-gta6
📖STORY4 claims
The story begins with a score that goes wrong and opens into a conspiracy across Leonida.CONFIRMED
This is Rockstar's standing synopsis, unchanged across the VI site, both press releases, and the Trailer 2 copy.
Source: Take-Two Interactive investor press release, June 24, 2026 · publisher-press-release
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#story-easy-score-goes-wrong
GTA 6 is a Bonnie and Clyde story.LIKELY
The inference step: Rockstar has never used the phrase. It describes two partners in crime who depend on each other, and the press supplied the comparison. Reasonable, but it is a reading, not a quote.
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#story-bonnie-and-clyde
GTA 6's story is structured in chapters.LIKELY
Upgraded from rumour in June 2026: Rockstar's own edition copy refers to content threaded across the story in a way that implies chaptering, and the item list is organised to match. Still one inference step short of a statement. The specific five-chapter count still traces to a 2025 leak and nothing else.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#story-chapters
GTA 6 uses Red Dead Redemption 2's chapter structure specifically.NOT STATED
The RDR2 comparison is an outlet addition. Nothing official mentions RDR2 in connection with GTA 6's structure.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#story-rdr2-chapter-structure
👤CHARACTERS29 claims
Jason and Lucia are the two protagonists.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2023-12-05Last changed 2023-12-05Logged 2026-07-16#story-two-protagonists
Both Jason and Lucia are playable.LIKELY
The inference step: Rockstar presents both as protagonists with equal billing and separate character pages, but has never described the switching mechanic. Everything specific about how switching works is leak-sourced.
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2023-12-05Last changed 2023-12-05Logged 2026-07-16#story-playable-both
Jason Duval is a protagonist.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2023-12-05Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#char-jason-duval
Jason served in the Army before arriving in the Keys.CONFIRMED
From Rockstar's own character bio.
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#char-jason-army
Jason works for local drug runners in the Leonida Keys.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#char-jason-drug-runners
Jason grew up around grifters and crooks.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#char-jason-grifters
Lucia Caminos is a protagonist.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2023-12-05Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#char-lucia-caminos
Lucia was imprisoned in the Leonida Penitentiary and is out at the start of the story.CONFIRMED
Rockstar names the prison. It is one of the few Leonida locations named in a character bio rather than on the map.
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#char-lucia-penitentiary
Lucia's mother came to Leonida from Liberty City.CONFIRMED
The only explicit link Rockstar has drawn between GTA 6 and an earlier GTA setting.
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#char-lucia-liberty-city
Lucia was taught to fight by her father from a very young age.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#char-lucia-fighter
Cal Hampton is a named character and a friend of Jason's.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#char-cal-hampton
Cal monitors Coast Guard communications from home.CONFIRMED
From Rockstar's bio. The conspiracy-theorist characterisation is Rockstar's own framing, not a fan reading.
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#char-cal-coast-guard
Cal is an associate of Brian's, as is Jason.CONFIRMED
Rockstar's bio ties Cal to Brian Heder explicitly, which is how the Keys cluster of characters is linked.
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#char-cal-brian-associate
Boobie Ike is a named character.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#char-boobie-ike
Boobie Ike's businesses span real estate, a strip club, and a recording studio.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#char-boobie-empire
Boobie Ike is in business with Dre'Quan Priest through Only Raw Records.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#char-boobie-partnership
Dre'Quan Priest is a named character.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#char-drequan-priest
Dre'Quan Priest has signed the Real Dimez to Only Raw Records.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#char-drequan-signs-real-dimez
Real Dimez is a rap duo made up of Bae-Luxe and Roxy.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#char-real-dimez
Bae-Luxe and Roxy have been friends since high school.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#char-real-dimez-history
DWNPLY is a named local rapper who had an early hit with Real Dimez.CONFIRMED
Named in Rockstar's Real Dimez bio, five years before the story's present.
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#char-dwnply
Raul Bautista is a named character and a bank robber.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#char-raul-bautista
Raul Bautista runs a crew and recruits for scores.CONFIRMED
The closest thing to a heist-structure signal in any official material — and it is a character bio, not a mechanic description.
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#char-raul-crew
Brian Heder is a named character and a veteran drug runner.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#char-brian-heder
Brian Heder's third wife is named Lori.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#char-brian-lori
Brian Heder moves product through his boat yard.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#char-brian-boatyard
Jason lives rent-free in one of Brian Heder's properties in exchange for doing local shakedowns.CONFIRMED
This is the clearest cause-and-effect Rockstar has published about how Jason gets pulled into anything.
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#char-brian-houses-jason
Boobie Ike and Raul Bautista appear on the official cover art.CONFIRMED
Sourced from Rockstar's own alt text on the edition page, which names both. Alt text is an odd place for a confirmation to live, but it is Rockstar's text on Rockstar's site.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#char-cover-boobie-raul
Rockstar has published individual character bios for eight named characters or acts.CONFIRMED
Jason, Lucia, Cal, Boobie, Dre'Quan, Real Dimez, Raul, Brian. Counted off the Only in Leonida page on 2026-07-16. Every other GTA 6 character name in circulation comes from trailers, leaks, or fans.
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#char-count-official
🗺️MAP & LOCATIONS11 claims
GTA 6 is set in Vice City and the wider state of Leonida.CONFIRMED
Named in the Trailer 1 announcement and restated in every official description since.
Source: Rockstar Newswire, December 5, 2023 — Trailer 1 · rockstar-official
First seen 2023-12-05Last changed 2023-12-05Logged 2026-07-16#story-vice-city-leonida
Leonida is the state GTA 6 is set in.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Newswire, December 5, 2023 — Trailer 1 · rockstar-official
First seen 2023-12-05Last changed 2023-12-05Logged 2026-07-16#map-leonida-state
Leonida Keys is an official region.CONFIRMED
One of six regions Rockstar links to by name from the Only in Leonida page.
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#map-leonida-keys
Grassrivers is an official region.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#map-grassrivers
Port Gellhorn is an official region.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#map-port-gellhorn
Ambrosia is an official region.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#map-ambrosia
Mount Kalaga is an official region.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#map-mount-kalaga
Vice City is an official region within Leonida.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2023-12-05Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#map-vice-city-region
Rockstar has named six explorable regions plus Vice City.LIKELY
The inference step: Rockstar links to six region pages from the Only in Leonida page, but has never said the map has six regions or that these are all of them. The count is ours, off its own navigation.
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#map-six-regions
GTA 6's map is a specific multiple of GTA V's.NOT STATED
Rockstar has published no map dimensions, no area figure, and no comparison. Every “X times bigger” number in circulation is derived from leaked material or invented outright.
Source: Rockstar Games — Grand Theft Auto VI official site · rockstar-official
No source to dateLogged 2026-07-16#map-size-claim
The Leonida Penitentiary is a named location.CONFIRMED
Named in Lucia's bio rather than on the map.
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#map-leonida-penitentiary
🕹️GAMEPLAY14 claims
Fishing is in GTA 6.CONFIRMED
Rockstar's own item copy for the Shitzu Squalo describes casting and reeling in catches. Worth reading twice: the press reached the right answer by the wrong road, citing a Mount Kalaga blurb and a columnist's guess rather than the sentence that actually says it. Underreading a primary source is quieter than overreading one, and it leaves a correct fact standing on nothing.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#gameplay-fishing
Car customisation is in GTA 6.CONFIRMED
Two mod shops are Ultimate Edition items. That confirms customisation exists; it does not tell you what the Standard Edition gets, and Rockstar has not said.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#gameplay-car-customisation
Car customisation requires the Ultimate Edition.NOT STATED
The two named mod shops are Ultimate items. Whether Standard players get any mod shop at all is simply unaddressed. This is the sharpest open question from the June announcement and it is being answered confidently in both directions by people with no source.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#gameplay-customisation-ultimate-only
Tattoo parlours are in GTA 6.CONFIRMED
Electric Fang is an Ultimate item.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#gameplay-tattoos
Clothing stores are in GTA 6.CONFIRMED
Stock 305 is an Ultimate item.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#gameplay-clothing-stores
Hair salons are in GTA 6.CONFIRMED
Sara's Unisex Salon is an Ultimate item.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#gameplay-hair-salons
Boats are in GTA 6.CONFIRMED
The Shitzu Squalo is a boat and an Ultimate item. Brian Heder's bio also puts a boat yard in the Keys.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#gameplay-boats
Player property ownership is in GTA 6.LIKELY
The inference step: Jason lives in a property Brian owns, and Jason's Safehouse Vehicles is an Ultimate item implying a safehouse with a garage. Neither says the player buys or manages property.
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#gameplay-property-ownership
Fencing stolen goods is in GTA 6.LIKELY
The inference step: an Illegal Goods Store is an Ultimate item, which strongly implies a channel for moving stolen property. Rockstar has not described the mechanic.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#gameplay-fencing
GTA 6 has a weapon locker.NOT STATED
Reported as confirmed after the June dump. The edition list supports weapons and weapon variants existing; a locker system is an outlet extrapolation.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#gameplay-weapon-locker
GTA 6 has heists.LIKELY
The inference step: Raul Bautista is a bank robber who recruits a crew for scores, and the synopsis opens on a score gone wrong. That is a story premise. No heist mechanic has been described.
Source: Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#gameplay-heists
GTA 6 has watchable in-game television.NOT STATED
Macca the Gator is described as a TV show character, which tells you television exists in the fiction. Whether you can sit down and watch it is a different claim, and one nobody official has made. GTA IV and V both had watchable TV, which is why the assumption slid through unexamined.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#gameplay-in-game-tv
GTA 6 has a six-star wanted level.NOT STATED
Widely leaked, never formally confirmed. Our own confirmed-features page rates this Highly Likely and that is not a contradiction — it grades how likely a claim is to be true, this ledger grades what the claim rests on. Six stars can be probable and leak-sourced at the same time. Where the two pages differ, they are answering different questions.
Source: Rockstar Newswire — the full announcement archive · rockstar-official
No source to dateLogged 2026-07-16#gameplay-six-star-wanted
Swimming is in GTA 6.NOT STATED
Almost certainly true, and still unsourced. Listed to make the point that this ledger's bar is what has been said, not what is obvious. A GTA set in the Keys without swimming is hard to imagine — imagination is not a source.
Source: Rockstar Games — Grand Theft Auto VI official site · rockstar-official
No source to dateLogged 2026-07-16#gameplay-swimming
📈BUSINESS & CORPORATE8 claims
GTA 6 has not been assigned an ESRB rating.CONFIRMED
Stated in bold in the press release, and Rockstar's site still carries the rating-pending notice. Five months from launch.
Source: Take-Two Interactive investor press release, June 24, 2026 · publisher-press-release
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#esrb-not-yet-rated
GTA 6 will be rated AO (Adults Only).NOT STATED
A recurring rumour with no official basis. Every mainline GTA has been rated M.
Source: Rockstar Games — Grand Theft Auto VI official site · rockstar-official
No source to dateLogged 2026-07-16#esrb-ao-rating
The cover art includes a helicopter, a flamingo over a speedboat, and an alligator in water.CONFIRMED
Same alt text. Useful mainly as a check on cover-art readings that claim to see more than is there.
Source: Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#char-cover-elements
The Grand Theft Auto series has sold in over 470 million units.CONFIRMED
Rockstar's boilerplate figure as of June 2026. It said 440 million in the May 2025 Trailer 2 release — roughly 30 million units in thirteen months, with no new mainline game. That movement is the fact, not the round number.
Source: Take-Two Interactive investor press release, June 24, 2026 · publisher-press-release
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#business-470m-sold-in
The Grand Theft Auto series had sold in over 440 million units as of May 2025.CONFIRMED
Superseded by the 470 million figure. Retained so the delta is checkable rather than asserted.
Source: Take-Two Interactive investor press release, May 6, 2025 — Trailer 2 · publisher-press-release
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#business-440m-superseded
GTA 6 pre-orders have generated $3 billion.NOT STATED
This figure comes from a union estimate made during a recognition dispute, not from a Take-Two disclosure. It is circulating as though Take-Two published it. Take-Two has published no pre-order figure at all.
Source: Rockstar Newswire — the full announcement archive · rockstar-official
First seen 2026-07-02Last changed 2026-07-02Logged 2026-07-16#business-preorder-revenue
Rockstar Games is a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive.CONFIRMED
Source: Take-Two Interactive investor press release, June 24, 2026 · publisher-press-release
First seen 2026-06-24Last changed 2026-06-24Logged 2026-07-16#business-publisher
Rockstar has published a marketing calendar for the run-up to launch.NOT STATED
Take-Two executives have talked about marketing ramping up. No dated plan, beat list, or schedule has been published by anyone.
Source: Rockstar Newswire — the full announcement archive · rockstar-official
No source to dateLogged 2026-07-16#business-marketing-campaign
🎬TRAILERS6 claims
Trailer 1 was released on December 5, 2023.CONFIRMED
Source: Rockstar Newswire, December 5, 2023 — Trailer 1 · rockstar-official
First seen 2023-12-05Last changed 2023-12-05Logged 2026-07-16#trailer1-date
Trailer 2 was released on May 6, 2025.CONFIRMED
Four days after the delay to May 26, 2026 — Rockstar followed bad news with the trailer inside the same week.
Source: Rockstar Newswire, May 6, 2025 — Trailer 2 · rockstar-official
First seen 2025-05-06Last changed 2025-05-06Logged 2026-07-16#trailer2-date
Trailer 2 was captured entirely in-game on a PlayStation 5.CONFIRMED
Rockstar stated this the day after release. It is the only claim Rockstar has made about how any GTA 6 footage was produced.
Source: Rockstar Games on X, May 7, 2025 — how Trailer 2 was captured · rockstar-social
First seen 2025-05-07Last changed 2025-05-07Logged 2026-07-16#trailer2-captured-ps5
Trailer 2 is made of roughly equal parts gameplay and cutscenes.CONFIRMED
Rockstar's own characterisation. It does not say which shots are which, and no official shot-by-shot breakdown exists.
Source: Rockstar Games on X, May 7, 2025 — how Trailer 2 was captured · rockstar-social
First seen 2025-05-07Last changed 2025-05-07Logged 2026-07-16#trailer2-gameplay-cutscene-split
Trailer 3 has been announced.NOT STATED
Rockstar's VI site still lists Trailer 2 as its only video. Every Trailer 3 date in circulation — including ones tied to earnings calls — is a fan theory. Checked against the live site on 2026-07-16.
Source: Rockstar Games — Grand Theft Auto VI official site · rockstar-official
No source to dateLogged 2026-07-16#trailer3-announced
Rockstar has released a gameplay reveal or extended gameplay demo.NOT STATED
It has not. GTA V's gameplay video came about three months before launch and RDR2's about two, which is a pattern several outlets have noted — patterns are not schedules.
Source: Rockstar Games — Grand Theft Auto VI official site · rockstar-official
No source to dateLogged 2026-07-16#trailer-gameplay-reveal
🔧MODDING1 claims
Rockstar will support modding in GTA 6.NOT STATED
Nothing has been announced. The roleplay community's plans are running well ahead of anything Rockstar has said, and the third-party GTA V multiplayer shutdowns through 2026 have not been linked by Take-Two to GTA 6 in either direction.
Source: Rockstar Newswire — the full announcement archive · rockstar-official
No source to dateLogged 2026-07-16#gta6-modding-support

HOW THIS WAS BUILT

Every record here starts from a source, not from a claim. We went to Rockstar’s own pages, Take-Two’s investor releases and the Newswire archive, read them, and wrote down what they actually establish. Where a widely repeated claim had no source underneath it, we kept the claim and marked the absence instead of dropping it — those records are the ones worth your time.

Two rules govern the grading. The first: every source here is one you can open. That rule has teeth — it is why there is no grade for leaks. An earlier draft of this page had one, and every record under it pointed at an official page that did not mention the leak at all, because official pages never do. A citation to a source that does not contain the claim is worse than no citation: it borrows authority it has not earned. So the grade was deleted and its records moved to NOT STATED, where they belong.

The second: outlet republication of official copy is not the official copy. Four summaries agreeing with each other is not corroboration — they converge on the same error as happily as on the same fact. That is not a hypothetical. It is how the press turned a district into a clothing shop in June, and it is how they credited GTA 6 fishing to a columnist’s hunch when Rockstar had already written it down. Every confirmed record here was checked against the primary itself.

One thing this ledger is not: a confidence rating. Our confirmed features page grades how likely a claim is to be true. This page grades what a claim rests on. Those are different questions and they give different answers — the six-star wanted level is rated Highly Likely there and NOT STATED here, and both are right. It is probably true. It is also sourced to a leak and nothing else. If you want to know what to expect in November, read that page. If you want to know what has actually been established, read this one.

Where the two genuinely conflict, the ledger is newer and the other page gets fixed. That has already happened once: the confirmed-features entry for chapter structure credited a 2025 leak as its only source months after Rockstar’s own June copy had moved the claim forward. Corrected in the same build as this page shipped.

WHAT WOULD MAKE US WRONG

Plenty. Rockstar can change its own pages without telling anyone, and several records here rest on copy that lives on a marketing site rather than in a press release — marketing sites get rewritten. A handful of records rest on Rockstar’s image alt text, which is real Rockstar text on a real Rockstar page and also the kind of thing a contractor updates without ceremony. Dates move. The NOT STATED records are the most fragile of all by design: every one of them is a single announcement away from becoming CONFIRMED, and that is exactly what the grade is for.

If you find a record that is wrong, it is wrong — not defended. Tell us and it changes, and the change log will show that it changed and when.

THE SOURCE LIST

Every record above points at one of these 16. The line under each one says how we checked it, and the two words there are not interchangeable. Fetched means we pulled the page and read the text a record rests on. Search result means we read it through a search index rather than opening it directly — weaker, and marked as such. One source, Rockstar Support, returns a 503 to every automated request; it opens fine in a browser, and we are telling you that instead of quietly implying we read it. All fifteen URLs were checked for a live response on 2026-07-16.

PlayStation — GTA VI features page (linked from Rockstar's VI site)
platform-official · 1 record(s) · checked 2026-07-16 (link present on fetched rockstargames.com/VI)
Take-Two Interactive investor press release, June 24, 2026
publisher-press-release · 25 record(s) · checked 2026-07-16 (fetched, full text)
Take-Two Interactive investor press release, May 6, 2025 — Trailer 2
publisher-press-release · 1 record(s) · checked 2026-07-16 (search result)
Rockstar Games — GTA VI edition comparison
rockstar-official · 41 record(s) · checked 2026-07-16 (fetched)
Rockstar Games — Grand Theft Auto VI official site
rockstar-official · 9 record(s) · checked 2026-07-16 (fetched)
Rockstar Games — “Only in Leonida” people & places
rockstar-official · 39 record(s) · checked 2026-07-16 (fetched)
Rockstar Newswire — the full announcement archive
rockstar-official · 5 record(s) · checked 2026-07-16 (search result)
Rockstar Newswire, December 5, 2023 — Trailer 1
rockstar-official · 4 record(s) · checked 2026-07-16 (search result)
Rockstar Newswire, June 18, 2026 — pre-orders begin June 25
rockstar-official · 1 record(s) · checked 2026-07-16 (search result)
Rockstar Newswire, June 24, 2026 — “Pre-Order Grand Theft Auto VI on June 25”
rockstar-official · 1 record(s) · checked 2026-07-16 (fetched; body is client-rendered, metadata read)
Rockstar Newswire, May 2, 2025 — launch moved to May 26, 2026
rockstar-official · 2 record(s) · checked 2026-07-16 (search result)
Rockstar Newswire, May 6, 2025 — Trailer 2
rockstar-official · 1 record(s) · checked 2026-07-16 (search result)
Rockstar Newswire, November 6, 2025 — launch moved to November 19, 2026
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Rockstar Games on X, May 7, 2025 — how Trailer 2 was captured
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Rockstar Games on X, November 6, 2025 — delay statement
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Rockstar Support — GTA VI pre-order details
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