Rockstar Games has set November 19, 2026, as the release date for Grand Theft Auto VI, the company's most anticipated game after nearly 13 years since the last main title in the GTA series, released in September 2013. The game will be available on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, and players in Romania will be able to access it on Thursday, at midnight.
The release has been postponed twice. Initially, the title was scheduled for autumn 2025, then for May 26, 2026, before the date was moved again to November. The lengthy development cycle explains why the series has such an impact on the industry: each main title in the Grand Theft Auto franchise has become an event in its own right, and fan expectations have grown over this period.
In Romania, the standard version costs 399.90 lei, while the Ultimate edition costs 499.90 lei. Those who pre-order the game receive the Vintage Vice City pack, and pre-orders also include one month of GTA+ subscription. For now, the launch is only in single-player mode, and details about the multiplayer component have not been announced, leaving open the question of how players will interact in the game world after launch.
On PlayStation 5, Rockstar is targeting a frame rate of 30 FPS, with no 60 FPS mode announced so far. The PS5 Pro version benefits from PSSR upscaling and ray-traced shadows, an important technical difference for those who bought Sony's newest console. On Xbox Series X and Series S, the target is also 30 FPS. Xbox One players can access the game via Xbox Cloud Gaming, while a PlayStation 4 version is not planned.
The required storage space could reach 212 GB, a requirement that matters for users with limited console capacity. For the PC version, there is still no official release date and no published system requirements, so the computer version remains unknown.
The action takes place in Vice City and in the fictional state of Leonida, and the protagonists are Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos. On November 5, official images from the game were published, the first major visual materials to appear in this phase of promotion.
The launch also follows incidents that affected the project. In 2022, roughly 90 recordings from a development version leaked online, an episode that showed how vulnerable large projects can be during the creative phase. More recently, The Verge reported on other allegedly leaked video materials, published under the name CyberLeek. Rockstar has not confirmed the authenticity of these materials, and the company has not yet commented on whether they come from the final game.