By GamGem ResearchPublished 13 Sept 2026 · Last updated 15 Sept 2026
Grand Theft Auto VI arrives on 19 November 2026, and the volume of confident writing about it has long outrun the volume of published fact. This page takes the questions people actually ask and answers each one with the state of its answer attached: what the publisher has stated, what a named developer has said in an interview, what is visible but never claimed, where published sources contradict each other — and, most often, that nobody has said.
No answer here is a prediction. Where nothing has been established, the answer says so and stops, rather than filling the gap with what seems likely. Every source was opened on the date shown beside it.
The questions with the firmest answers, and the ones that have none. Notice which is which — the release date is on a Rockstar page, the PC version is on nobody's page, and nobody outside the studio has played it.
19 November 2026, on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
Rockstar's own game page carries the line "Coming November 19, 2026" and lists two platforms: PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. The date has moved twice to get there — an initial fall 2025 window became 26 May 2026, which became 19 November 2026 — and it is the third date the game has carried.
Nobody can answer this, and anyone who says otherwise is guessing.
Take-Two has reaffirmed 19 November publicly and the date sits inside the company's own financial guidance, which is a harder thing to walk back than a marketing line. That is evidence of intent, not a guarantee — and the same intent was on the record before both previous slips. The only honest answer is that the date currently stands.
Still open — A third delay would most likely surface on an earnings call rather than a Newswire post, which is where the last two were framed.
No PC version has been announced. No date, no window, no store page.
Rockstar's game page lists PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S and nothing else. There is no PC store listing, no system requirements page and no stated window. Every "GTA 6 PC release date" headline is an extrapolation from Rockstar's past release patterns — GTA V reached PC about 19 months after consoles, Red Dead Redemption 2 about 13 — and a pattern is not an announcement.
Still open — Whether a PC version exists at all is unstated. Rockstar has shipped one for every recent title, but has never committed to one for this game.
None of them has been announced. The only listed platforms are PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.
Rockstar has named two platforms and no others. Previous-generation consoles, the Switch 2 and PC are all in the same position: unannounced. This is one question where the absence is close to an answer — a title built for current-generation hardware and shown running on PlayStation 5 is unlikely to arrive on a 2013 console — but Rockstar has not said so.
Still open — Rockstar has not ruled any platform out either. It has simply named two.
Pre-load opens at local midnight on 12 November 2026, one week before launch.
Rockstar has stated the pre-load date: 12 November 2026, starting at local midnight — meaning midnight in the time zone attached to your store account, not a single global moment. Anyone with a digital pre-order can pre-load. Buyers of the boxed edition can too, but only after redeeming the download code inside it.
Rockstar has not published an install size. The numbers you have seen are estimates.
No official install size has been published on either store listing. The 150–200 GB range that circulates is a community estimate built from comparable open-world titles and unverified press reports. The real figure normally appears on the store page shortly before pre-load opens, which would put it around 12 November.
Still open — Whether the boxed edition needs the full download — it contains a code rather than a disc, so it almost certainly does.
No. Take-Two has said its frontline titles do not launch day-and-date on subscriptions.
Take-Two's chief executive has stated the position plainly: the company's biggest releases are not put on subscription services at launch. Everything about this release is arranged around selling it — the $79.99 price, the single-player-first shape, the fiscal-year forecast built on it. Older Rockstar titles have reached those services, but years later and usually on temporary rotations.
Still open — Whether it arrives on a subscription eventually. "At the appropriate time" is the phrasing, and it has never come with a date.
Not for the campaign. There is no online mode at launch for a subscription to gate.
Console subscriptions are required for online multiplayer, and GTA VI ships as a single-player experience with no online mode bundled. The store listings carry a single-player tag. So the game is bought once and played without a subscription — which is a different answer from the one about whether it is INCLUDED in a subscription.
Still open — If an online mode follows, the usual subscription rules would presumably apply to it. Nothing has been said.
No. The July 2026 press event was hands-off — Rob Nelson played and the guests watched.
Rockstar held a closed-door session at Rockstar North in Edinburgh in July 2026 for a small set of outlets and creators. Devices were taken at the door, nobody was given a controller, and most of what was published afterwards came from Rob Nelson describing mechanics out loud while he played. That is why "hands-on" appears in headlines about an event where no hands were on anything — and why a preview impression of how the game FEELS is not evidence of anything.
Still open — Whether any playable session happens before launch. None has been announced.
Neither. There is no announced PC version, so there is no storefront question yet.
A Steam or Epic listing requires a PC release, and Rockstar has announced none. GTA V reached Steam nineteen months after its console launch and Red Dead Redemption 2 took thirteen; both are facts about other games. Nothing published says which storefronts a GTA VI PC version would use, or whether it would appear on Rockstar’s own launcher first as its predecessor did.
Still open — The PC version itself. Everything about storefronts follows from an announcement that has not happened.
Announced in full on 24 June 2026, a day before pre-orders opened. This is the section where almost everything is settled.
$79.99 for the standard edition and $99.99 for the Ultimate edition, in the US.
Rockstar announced the pricing on 24 June 2026, a day before pre-orders opened. The standard edition is $79.99 and the Ultimate edition is $99.99. We read both figures at GTA BOOM's countdown page after Forbes' report returned HTTP 403 to us; the two agree, and the figures also appear on the store listings.
Still open — Regional pricing outside the US has not been collected here.
No. The boxed edition contains a download code, not a disc.
The physical release is a box with a download code inside. That has three practical consequences readers ask about separately: the box cannot be played offline without first downloading the game, it cannot be resold once the code is redeemed, and it cannot be installed on a disc-less console any faster than the digital edition.
Every pre-order includes the Vintage Vice City Pack. Pre-orders opened 25 June 2026.
Pre-orders opened at local midnight on 25 June 2026 across the PlayStation Store, the Microsoft Store, the Rockstar Games Store and participating retailers, and every pre-order carries the Vintage Vice City Pack. The Ultimate edition adds a further collection of vehicles, weapons and apparel on top of it.
Still open — The pack's exact contents have not been itemised in a Rockstar list we could open.
ESRB Mature 17+ is everywhere — and it surfaced through a marketing email, not a rating announcement.
The M 17+ rating and its content descriptors entered circulation through a Sony promotional email rather than an ESRB or Rockstar announcement, and coverage from May 2026 onwards has repeated it as settled. Nobody has disputed its accuracy, and ratings do routinely surface through platform partners before a formal release. But "reported from a retailer email" and "announced by the rating board" are different objects, and only one of them is what a reader thinks they are getting.
Still open — A PEGI rating for Europe had not been issued as of mid-2026. The expectation is 18; the expectation is not the rating.
One interview supplies most of what is known here — and the same interview supplies the clearest example on this site of a sentence changing meaning as it travels. The hardware questions below have no source at all.
Rockstar North's Rob Nelson said 30fps was what the console build was running at the time.
In an interview with the YouTuber Davy Jones, Rockstar North co-studio head Rob Nelson said 30fps is what the console version was currently running at. Asked directly about a 60fps performance mode, he said he would need to check with the technical team. That is the whole of what the source said — a current state and an open question, delivered in an interview rather than a specification.
Still open — Whether a 60fps or 40fps mode ships at launch, later, or at all. It has been neither promised nor ruled out.
The word "locked" appears in headlines. It does not appear in the source.
One interview produced five materially different headlines within days: "Rockstar Suggests" (eXputer), "Sounds Like It Won't Be 60FPS" (Kotaku), "will launch at 30fps… 'for now', confirms Rockstar" (TechRadar), "Confirmed to Run at 30 FPS" (TechPowerUp) and "Locked at 30 FPS on Consoles, PS5 Pro Too" (tech-insider.org). The range runs from "suggests" to "locked", and "locked" — the one word the source never used, and the one that forecloses the future update Nelson explicitly left open — is the version that reads most authoritative.
Still open — Nothing about the shipped frame rate is settled by any of these headlines. Only the interview is evidence, and it said what it said.
The PlayStation listing carries the PS5 Pro Enhanced badge. What the badge covers has not been detailed.
GTA 6 is labelled PS5 Pro Enhanced on its PlayStation store listing — that part is published. What the enhancement consists of is not: Rockstar has said it will talk about the PlayStation 5 Pro version later and has published no platform-by-platform feature chart. Sony's own criteria for the badge require an improvement in resolution, frame rate or ray tracing, which narrows the possibilities without naming one.
Still open — Which of the three the badge is earned by, and whether it changes the frame rate answer above.
No feature chart has been published. Retail copy is not a specification.
Rockstar has published no ray tracing feature list for any platform. Descriptions mentioning advanced lighting, global illumination and reflections come from retailer listings and marketing copy, which are written to sell and are not authored by the studio. The PS5 Pro Enhanced badge makes some form of improved lighting plausible; plausible is not stated.
Still open — Every specific: which effects, on which platform, in which mode.
Rockstar has not named an engine for this title.
RAGE — the Rockstar Advanced Game Engine — is the in-house technology behind every recent Rockstar release, and almost every article about GTA VI says the game runs on it. Rockstar itself has not said so for this title. That gap is small and it is real: an engine name repeated across a hundred pages is still a hundred repetitions of an assumption.
Still open — Which version, and what changed. Neither has been described, and engine details usually surface only in post-launch technical analysis.
There are none, because there is no announced PC version to have them.
Specification tables for GTA VI circulate on hardware sites and comparison blogs, complete with minimum and recommended tiers. They are constructed — a scaling of Red Dead Redemption 2’s requirements, or an estimate from console hardware. Rockstar has published no PC version, no release window for one and no specification of any kind, so a table with a GPU model in it is a guess with a layout.
Still open — Whether a PC version exists at all. Requirements are the second question, not the first.
Nobody has said. No VR mode, headset or port has been announced.
Rockstar has announced GTA VI for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S and named no other hardware. The series has never shipped an official VR mode; what exists for GTA V is a community modification, which says nothing about this game. The absence here is unusually clean — this is not a case of conflicting reports, it is a case of nobody claiming anything.
Still open — Whether any platform beyond the two announced consoles is planned.
Six region names are official. Every dimension of the map is either a ratio or a measurement of somebody's reconstruction.
Twice the size of GTA 5's world and three times Red Dead Redemption 2's — as a ratio, never in miles.
Rockstar North's head of development, Rob Nelson, gave the YouTuber TGG a set of size comparisons: the world is twice the size of GTA 5's and three times the size of Red Dead Redemption 2's. The outlets that covered it paraphrased him rather than quoting him, so this answer does too. Notice the shape of the claim — it is a ratio, and a ratio cannot be converted into an area without knowing the area it is a ratio of.
Still open — Whether the comparison counts water, and whether it counts interiors. Neither was specified.
Rockstar has never printed a square-mileage figure. Not once.
Every "GTA 6 is 132 square miles" headline is a measurement taken off a community reconstruction — a fan-assembled map built from trailer frames and, in some versions, leaked material. Measuring a reconstruction tells you the size of the reconstruction. The figures that circulate cluster around 118–132 square miles, and they vary because the reconstructions do.
Still open — The real area will not be settled until the game ships and can be measured in it.
Six names are official: Vice City, Leonida Keys, Grassrivers, Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia and Mount Kalaga National Park.
Those six are named in Rockstar's own material, and they are names rather than places: nothing published states where any boundary falls, how the regions connect, or how large each one is. This is the exact distinction our map page is built on — we can list the regions with confidence and cannot draw them without inventing the thing the page exists to document.
Still open — Every boundary, every adjacency, and whether the six are the complete list.
Nothing published says so. The state of Leonida is what has been named.
Rockstar has described the setting as the state of Leonida and named six regions inside it. No other state, city or returning location has been named in published material. Speculation about a returning map is built on series history rather than on anything stated about this game.
Still open — Whether the map grows after launch. No post-launch content plan has been published.
The fictional state GTA 6 is set in. Vice City is the city inside it.
Leonida is the state; Vice City is one place within it, alongside the Leonida Keys, Grassrivers, Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia and Mount Kalaga National Park. The distinction matters more than it sounds — "the GTA 6 map" and "Vice City" are not the same object, and comparisons that use them interchangeably are comparing different areas.
Still open — How much of the state is city and how much is not. No proportion has been published.
Swimming and scuba diving both appear in the published gameplay material.
The gameplay showing included swimming, scuba diving and a run of other activities — basketball, racing, base jumping. These were shown rather than described, which is the useful distinction: footage establishes that something exists in the build that was filmed, and says nothing about how deep the system goes or whether it is a mission, a minigame or an ambient action.
Still open — Whether diving is a free-roam activity or gated behind equipment, missions or story progress.
Helicopters have been shown. Planes have not been confirmed by anything published.
Helicopters appear in the official trailers, which settles that they exist. Planes are a different case: no published Rockstar material shows or names one, and the expectation that a full aircraft roster exists comes from every previous game in the series rather than from this one. A staple is not a statement.
Still open — The roster itself. Our vehicle pages carry what has been identified; the totals other sites print are discussed on the radar.
A passenger train is visible on an elevated line in the second trailer. Whether you can ride it is a different question, and unanswered.
The train appears at roughly 0:45 of the second trailer, running on elevated track through the city, in a livery that reads as a real transit system rather than freight. That establishes the object. It does not establish a network: nothing published says how far the line runs, whether stations are enterable, whether the player can board, or whether anything crosses the state. Our own claim ledger keeps "a rail system crosses the state" open for exactly that reason.
Still open — Whether it is rideable, where the line goes, and whether buses, taxis or a metro exist as systems rather than as traffic.
Animals appear in published material. A pet system — owning, feeding, training — has not been shown or stated.
Wildlife is visible in the trailers and in the publisher’s own screenshots, and the cast includes a dog. Beyond that, descriptions of petting, feeding and training routines are assembled from Red Dead Redemption 2, where those systems exist, and applied to this game on the assumption that they carry across. They are a reading of a different game, and several pages present them as GTA VI features without saying so.
Still open — Whether any interaction beyond presence exists — ownership, care, or a collection the game tracks.
Two protagonists, a switching system with stated limits, and a story whose length nobody outside the studio knows.
Two: Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos.
Both are named in Rockstar's own material and both appear across the published trailers and the Extended Look, in cinematic and gameplay footage alike. This is one of the few character questions with a settled answer — the supporting cast is named but thinly described, and their roles are mostly inferred from short appearances.
No. Switching depends on the mission and where you are in the story.
Rob Nelson said the ability to swap depends on the mission and on your position in the story: some missions allow free switching, some sections deliberately hold you to one character's perspective, and there are moments where switching is not available at all. Outside missions, the pair can travel together or separate — the example given was driving as Jason and swapping to Lucia in the passenger seat.
Still open — How often the restriction applies across the whole story, and whether it relaxes after completion.
Not a full one at launch. A first-person view is available while aiming certain weapons.
Rob Nelson said the studio focused its effort on third-person animation and that a dedicated first-person mode is not part of the launch build. A first-person perspective does exist while aiming with some weapons. Note where this came from: an interview during a preview event, not a public announcement — which is why some coverage says "confirms" and some says "reportedly".
Still open — Whether a full first-person mode arrives later. GTA V received one about a year after its original release, but nothing has been said about this game.
No length has been stated, and no reviewer has finished it.
Rockstar has published no mission count, no chapter count and no estimated completion time. Nobody outside the studio has played the game to completion, so no independent figure exists either. Any hour count you see before launch is derived from the length of previous Rockstar titles.
Still open — The first reliable figures will come from review embargo coverage, typically a few days before release.
In the mainline series, yes — with one distinction worth keeping.
Lucia Caminos is named by Rockstar as one of two protagonists, and every mainline lead before her — from Claude through to the three of GTA V — was male. The distinction people elide: GTA Online has let players create a female character since 2013, so she is the first female lead you are GIVEN rather than the first female character you can play. That is a real difference and it is the reason the phrasing varies across coverage.
Rockstar has announced no cast. Two names circulate, and this page does not repeat them.
No performer has been announced for any GTA VI character. Two names are attributed to the protagonists across fan sites and social posts, assembled from voice and likeness comparison rather than from a credit. ⚖️ We are not printing them, and the reason is narrower than caution: a casting attribution is a claim about a named living person, and the standard that applies to a vehicle count does not loosen because the subject is a performer. The cast becomes knowable from the credits.
Still open — The entire cast. Rockstar has historically not announced performers before release.
Songs used in the trailers are known. The radio line-up has not been published.
Tracks heard in the published trailers can be identified by anyone with the footage, and several have been. That is not a soundtrack: a song used to cut a trailer may or may not be in the game, and a radio station is a curated list nobody outside the studio has seen. Totals in circulation — "thirty licensed songs" and similar — are counts of what people have assembled, not of what ships.
Still open — Station count, station names and the full licensing list. Rockstar publishes these at or after launch.
Nobody has said. Two leads are named and published; no third has been announced or denied.
GTA V had three, which is the entire basis for expecting a third here. Rockstar has profiled Jason and Lucia as the playable pair and has said nothing to close the question either way — and "nothing has been said" cuts both directions: it is not evidence of a hidden third lead, and it is not evidence that there is none. Every list of "confirmed playable characters" longer than two is somebody completing a pattern.
Still open — The whole of it, including whether any character becomes playable for a single sequence.
The single-player answer is settled. Everything else here splits two ways: the features one closed-door session described out loud, and the questions an unannounced online mode cannot yet have answers to.
No. Rockstar describes GTA 6 as a single-player experience, and the store listings agree.
The product description frames the game as a single-player experience, and the PlayStation Store listing carries a single-player tag. No online mode is bundled with the 19 November release. The existing GTA Online, inside GTA V, is unaffected and continues to run.
Still open — Whether a new online mode follows later. Rockstar has not announced one, has not ruled one out, and has not described how it would be released.
No crossplay has been announced — and at launch there is no online mode for it to apply to.
This question is usually asked about an online mode that has not been announced. Rockstar has said nothing about cross-platform play, and with no multiplayer bundled at launch there is nothing for a crossplay feature to connect. The question becomes answerable only if and when an online mode is announced.
Still open — Both halves: the online mode, and then crossplay within it.
None exist to be published. Every pre-launch cheat list is invented or recycled.
Cheat codes are discovered by players after a game ships, or published by the studio; neither has happened. Pages listing GTA 6 cheat codes today are either recycling GTA V strings or inventing plausible-looking ones. Our cheats page says "none verified" and will stay that way until a code has been entered on a real console and recorded.
Still open — Whether the game ships with a cheat system at all. GTA V did; that is series history, not a statement about this game.
No. Take-Two has said it expects to keep supporting it after launch.
Take-Two's chief executive said in 2026 that he has every reason to believe GTA Online will continue to be supported, into 2027 and beyond. Progress is not being migrated or retired, and no sunset date exists. The expectation across coverage is a gradual transition rather than a shutdown — and since GTA VI ships without an online mode, GTA Online remains the only live GTA multiplayer there is.
Still open — What happens when a GTA VI online mode eventually exists. Nothing about a transition has been described.
None announced — and Rockstar has not shipped a story expansion since 2009.
No single-player expansion has been announced for GTA VI. The series record is the useful context: The Ballad of Gay Tony in 2009 was the last one, and both GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2 shipped none at all. Reporting that a live-service online mode is the post-launch plan is widely repeated and comes from journalism rather than from Rockstar.
Still open — Whether "expanded over time" means an online mode, paid story content, or both. Rockstar has described no roadmap.
Nothing has been announced for the single-player game.
Shark Cards are a GTA Online product, and GTA VI ships without an online mode. Rockstar has described no in-game purchases for the campaign, and the Ultimate edition's extras are a pre-order bundle rather than a store. That is the whole of what can be said; the question really becomes answerable when an online mode exists.
Still open — Everything about monetisation beyond the box price. It has not been described.
Six stars are visible on the HUD in the Extended Look. Rockstar has not said a word about what the sixth one means.
The star meter in the 27 August 2026 gameplay footage has room for six, two beyond the ceiling GTA V has held since 2013, and it was read off the screen rather than announced — Engadget noted it on the day. That settles the display and nothing else. What triggers a sixth star, what the police do differently at it, and whether it can be escaped are all unpublished, and the coverage that reports this as "Rockstar confirms" has turned a frame into a statement.
Still open — What the sixth star actually brings — thresholds, escalation, and how a pursuit at that level ends.
Yes, according to the press previews. Rockstar Editor was not in the build they were shown.
Outlets at the July 2026 session reported a photo mode in the version Rockstar demonstrated, and reported that the Rockstar Editor — the video capture and editing suite GTA V shipped — was absent from it. Both come from the same hands-off event rather than from anything Rockstar has published, and a feature present in a demonstration build is not a promise about the retail one.
Still open — What the mode actually offers, and whether the Editor arrives at launch, later, or not at all.
Reported from the previews: a setting that disables copyrighted music so broadcasts are not struck.
A mode that mutes licensed radio tracks matters to anyone who streams, and the previews describe one. It has not been documented by Rockstar, so what it covers is unknown — whether it silences the radio entirely, substitutes cleared tracks, or reaches score and incidental music as well. Every published description of it traces back to the same room.
Still open — What it silences, and whether it survives from the demonstration build into the shipped one.
Garages, yes. Safehouses are reported as story unlocks rather than purchases.
The previews describe garages that can be bought to expand personal vehicle storage, and safehouses that the story gives you rather than the map selling you. That is a meaningful difference from GTA V, where property was a purchase list, and it is the kind of detail that gets flattened into "you can buy property" within one hop. A wider economy — businesses, rentals, anything generating income — has not been described at all.
Still open — Whether any income-producing property exists, and how many garages there are.
Within limits. Hair grows and is cut at a barber; bodies change with what the characters eat and lift.
This is character maintenance rather than character creation — the leads have fixed identities and you adjust them. The previews describe hair that can be cut shorter at a safehouse but only lengthened at a barber, and physiques that respond to gym use and diet, which is the Red Dead Redemption 2 system applied to two named people. Clothing, tattoos and how deep any of it goes have not been described.
Still open — The wardrobe, and whether appearance affects anything the world does in response.
Nobody has said. No difficulty selector, assist preset or easy mode has been announced.
Neither GTA V nor Red Dead Redemption 2 shipped a difficulty selector; both used targeting modes as the nearest equivalent, and the previews describe manual aiming with an assist in this game. None of that is a statement about a difficulty menu. Pages that list "difficulty options" among GTA VI’s features are describing what the series has done before, in the present tense.
Still open — Whether any difficulty or accessibility preset exists, and what the aim assist actually does.
Nothing has been published about saving — not autosave, not manual slots, not cloud saves.
Every description of the GTA VI save system in circulation is a description of GTA V’s, written in the future tense. Cloud saves through PlayStation Plus and Xbox are a platform feature rather than a game one and would be unremarkable, but Rockstar has documented nothing: not how often it saves, not how many slots exist, not whether a mission can be left halfway.
Still open — The entire system. This is one of the few questions that is answered the minute anyone plays it.
Nobody has said — and Rockstar has never carried player progress between two games.
The honest answer has two halves and most pages print only the reassuring one. First: no online mode has been announced for GTA VI, so there is nothing for progress to transfer INTO. Second: Rockstar has moved GTA Online characters between platforms, which is a migration inside one game, and has never moved progress from one title to the next — not GTA IV to V, not Red Dead to Red Dead Online. A pattern across two decades is still not a statement about this game, in either direction.
Still open — Whether an online mode arrives at all, and what it does with accounts that already exist.
Nothing has been published about an online requirement either way.
Rockstar describes GTA VI as a single-player experience, which is a statement about the content and not about connectivity. Whether the game checks in at launch, requires a one-off activation, or runs with the console disconnected has not been documented — and those are three different answers with the same marketing sentence behind them. GTA V’s story mode plays offline; that is a fact about GTA V.
Still open — The requirement itself, which is normally printed on the box and has not been.
Vehicles, collectibles, missions, completion, the wanted ceiling. Questions with confident answers all over the internet and, for most of them, no published source anywhere.
Three major databases published 294, "over 100" and 54 on the same day. All three are honest.
Rockstar published no vehicle list before launch, so every total is somebody's count of something — and they count different things. GTABase listed 294, drawing on official trailers, screenshots and the Extended Look. GTAVISpot said over 100 and states that it includes leaked development footage. GTA BOOM's index returned 54, a curated list of vehicles identified by name. Three methods, three answers, one game.
Still open — The real total is unknowable until the game ships. Until then, the only meaningful question is what a given number counted.
No collectible list exists. The counts you have seen are GTA 5's, used as a placeholder.
GTA Codex publishes a checklist with approximate counts — around 100 hidden packages, 50 letter scraps, 50 stunt jumps, 50 under-the-bridge challenges, 15 knife flights and more. Run the familiar ones against GTA 5 and they match to the unit. The page says so itself, in plain text: "Counts (≈) are the GTA V baseline we're assuming for GTA VI — real Leonida locations get added as they're found." That is exactly the right disclosure. The problem is that the caveat does not survive a search snippet, a thumbnail, or a screenshot into a chat server — and what arrives at the other end is a sentence nobody wrote.
Still open — Whether the categories themselves carry over. A couple on that list are Leonida-flavoured inventions rather than GTA 5 holdovers.
No mission list or count has been published.
Rockstar has not published a mission list, a chapter structure or a total. Mission names that circulate come from readings of trailer footage rather than from a published list, and a scene in a trailer is not a mission with a name. Any numbered walkthrough available today is a structure someone invented.
Still open — A trophy and achievement list normally appears a few days before launch and usually reveals the story's shape before anyone has played it.
The completion criteria have not been published, and no trophy list exists yet.
Completion requirements in a Grand Theft Auto game are normally derived from the trophy and achievement list plus in-game progress tracking, neither of which exists publicly for this title. Checklists published today are GTA 5's categories with the name changed. The real list becomes knowable when the trophy data appears, typically within a week of release.
Still open — Whether Rockstar keeps the strict in-game completion counter that GTA 5 used, or replaces it.
No unlock time has been published. The pre-load time has.
Rockstar has stated that pre-load opens at local midnight on 12 November. It has said nothing about when the game becomes playable on 19 November — and the two are separate decisions. Console releases usually unlock at local midnight, but "usually" is where the guesses that fill this gap come from.
Still open — Whether the unlock is local midnight, a single global moment, or staggered by region.
What has aired, and what has been scheduled — which is nothing.
A 27-minute in-game showing, on Netflix on 27 August 2026 and on YouTube the same evening.
Rockstar ran the showing on Netflix at 3 p.m. ET on 27 August 2026 and published it on its own YouTube channel at 9 p.m. ET the same day — a six-hour exclusivity window and a first-of-its-kind partnership for the series. The footage was captured entirely in-game on PlayStation 5, and featured both protagonists in cinematic and gameplay scenes across Vice City.
No further showing has been scheduled publicly.
Rockstar has announced no additional trailer or showing between now and 19 November. Its pattern before a launch is a short run of material in the final weeks, but a pattern is not a schedule, and the studio has never pre-announced its trailer calendar.
Still open — A launch trailer is conventional and would normally arrive in the final fortnight. Nothing has been said.
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