After more than a decade, Rockstar Games will finally deliver a sequel to Grand Theft Auto 5, the open-world crime spree that has sold more than 200 million copies across multiple console generations. In 2023, GTA fans got their first official look at Grand Theft Auto 6 in the form of a teaser trailer.
We already knew some details about GTA 6, after an unprecedented leak of the game in 2022, but the game’s first trailer blew the lid off. It’s full of street-level chaos, including illegal street races, convenience-store robberies, gator wrangling, and general Floridian weirdness. The trailer also shows its dual protagonists getting up to all sorts of low-level crime.
Here’s everything we do know about Grand Theft Auto 6 so far.
When does GTA 6 come out?
Rockstar hasn’t announced a release date yet for GTA 6, but publisher Take-Two Interactive has narrowed down a release window: fall 2025.
While GTA 6 may be targeting a fall 2025 release, Rockstar is famous for delaying its biggest games in the name of polish. Its last major release, Red Dead Redemption 2, was publicly delayed three times. And back in 2013, Grand Theft Auto 5 saw a significant delay, slipping from its original spring release date to its ultimate September 2013 launch.
In other words, even if Rockstar gives us a release date or window, history tells us that nothing is set in stone.
When does the GTA 6 trailer come out?
Good news. It’s out! Rockstar released the first Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer in December 2023 — a day early, in response to a leak. Enjoy the chaotic South Florida vibes, which are set to Tom Petty’s “Love Is a Long Road.”
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Where does GTA 6 take place?
Grand Theft Auto 6 will be set in Vice City, the fictional GTA version of Miami. That location was previously explored in 2002’s Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and its 2006 prequel, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. Those entries were set during the mid-1980s, but GTA 6 will tell a modern-day, Bonnie and Clyde-inspired story featuring two leads named Jason and Lucia, based on early gameplay videos and leaks. Lucia would be the GTA series’ first playable female protagonist in a mainline game.
What happened with the big GTA 6 leak?
In 2022, more than 90 videos of the in-development version of Grand Theft Auto 6 were published online at the message board GTAForums. The hacker responsible claimed to have accessed the videos — some 50 minutes in total footage — directly from Rockstar Games’ internal Slack.
The videos show robberies, gunplay, open-world driving, a police chase, a crowded nightclub scene, and conversations with full voice acting. The game footage was clearly not intended to be shown publicly, with debug programming elements visible on-screen at the time.
One of the longer videos showed the female player character robbing a diner, as well as threatening staff and customers, who react in fear to having a gun pulled on them. Then she and her male accomplice get in a shootout with police before jumping in the police patrol car and driving off. The game’s graphical treatment is quite realistic, but still consistent with GTA games’ style.
How long has GTA 6 been in development?
Reportedly since 2014, though Rockstar did not officially acknowledge the game’s existence until February 2022.
What platforms will GTA 6 be released on?
GTA publisher Take-Two Interactive announced that Grand Theft Auto 6 will come to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X in 2025. A PC version has not been announced. That’s not uncommon for Grand Theft Auto games, though; the series has had staggered releases on consoles and PC, and the lack of an announced PC version certainly doesn’t rule one out at this point.
In May 2024, at a tech conference, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick addressed the question (albeit indirectly) about a PC port of GTA 6, saying “the lack of an announcement is not something that could be set in stone, near as I could tell.”
“Rockstar has an approach to platforms we’ve seen before, and they will make more announcements in due time,” Zelnick added. “I do believe that the right strategy for our business is to be where the consumer is, and historically what this company has done is address consumers anywhere they are, [on] any platform that makes sense, over time.”
There’s another potential platform coming that could be home to Grand Theft Auto 6: Nintendo’s Switch successor. Rockstar has embraced the Switch with releases like L.A. Noire, Red Dead Redemption, and Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy — The Definitive Edition, so don’t rule out an eventual release of GTA 6 on Switch 2.
How much will GTA 6 cost?
Rockstar and publisher Take-Two haven’t announced a price point, but it seems likely that Grand Theft Auto 6 will carry a $69.99 price point, increasingly the standard for AAA video games with big budgets.
Don’t worry about those unfounded rumors that GTA 6 will cost $150, or will be priced per hour, based on misinterpreted comments from Zelnick. There may be higher-priced premium or collector’s edition versions of GTA 6 that cost more than the industry-standard $69.99, but hold your horses (and your pre-orders) until Rockstar makes it official.
What happens to Grand Theft Auto Online when GTA 6 comes out?
Rockstar hasn’t said, but given the massive popularity of GTA Online, which is also sold as a stand-alone experience, it will likely continue. Rockstar may have more grand ambitions for an online mode for GTA 6, and it may run two versions of the online experience for each game. The future of GTA Online is one of the biggest open questions — not to mention Rockstar’s trickiest needle to thread — when it comes to discussing GTA 6. Rockstar may very well keep those plans under wraps for the foreseeable future.
