GTA 6 release date — November 19, 2026

Short version: GTA 6 comes out on Thursday, November 19, 2026 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. There is no PC version at launch — I go into when to expect one separately.

The date is official, confirmed by Rockstar, and — more telling than any statement — pre-orders opened on June 25, 2026. That is about as solid a signal as this industry gives you: nobody starts taking money up front while the studio is still nervous about the schedule.

The delay history

The date moved twice, and both times the community took it badly:

Announced	What changed
December 2023	release window — “2025”
May 2, 2025	pushed to May 26, 2026
November 6, 2025	pushed to November 19, 2026

The official reason was the same both times: the game needed more time to reach the level of polish people expect from Rockstar. Given that GTA 5 spent more than a decade building an audience nobody at the studio wants to let down, the logic tracks.

The road to launch

Date	Event
December 4, 2023	Trailer 1 — the announcement
May 6, 2025	Trailer 2 — first look at the game
June 25, 2026	Pre-orders open, Standard and Ultimate editions
August 27, 2026	An Extended Look — Netflix premiere, free on YouTube six hours later
November 12, 2026	Pre-load on PS5 and Xbox Series
November 19, 2026	Launch on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S

Less than three months to go, and the big pre-release landmark is behind us: on August 27 Rockstar aired the Extended Look — 26 minutes of gameplay captured on a base PS5 — and confirmed the date inside the video itself. Every mechanic from it is broken down on the gameplay page, short answers to everything else are in the questions and answers, and anything new gets covered in the news issues and on the channel.

I’m planning a launch marathon on stream — it starts on November 18 at 11:00 UTC, with the first wave that opens — and if you don’t want to miss it, follow on Telegram or YouTube below.