When does GTA 6 come out?

Rockstar set 19 November 2026 on 6 November 2025 and has not moved it since. It is a Thursday, which matters less than it sounds: the day tells you nothing about the hour, and the hour is the part nobody official has stated.

What is actually fixed

• The date. Thursday 19 November 2026, on Rockstar’s own product page, which read “Coming November 19, 2026” when we checked it on 23 September 2026, and in the Newswire post of 6 November 2025 that set it.
• The platforms. PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, on the same product page. Nothing else; see what consoles GTA 6 is on.
• Pre-loading. 12 November 2026 for digital pre-orders, one week ahead, in Take-Two’s announcement of 24 June 2026; the US PlayStation Store lists the same thing as a seven-day pre-load.
• The physical box. Also 12 November, in Take-Two’s words “containing a download code inside the box” rather than a disc. See the physical copy page.

What is not fixed: the hour

Rockstar has not published an unlock time, and its product page carries none. What exists is the storefronts’ own timestamps. The US PlayStation Store lists the release as 19 November 2026 at 05:00 UTC, which is midnight on the US East Coast, and GTAboom, reading the Store’s regional listings on 7 September 2026, found the same pattern in every one of 63 countries: local midnight, in fifteen windows, New Zealand first at 11:00 UTC on 18 November and Mexico last at 06:00 UTC on the 19th. That is a platform holder’s listing and a third party’s reading of it, not a Rockstar statement, and either can change before the day. But it is the only timetable in existence, and it says the game unlocks at midnight where you are rather than everywhere at once. Our unlock time page has the table.

Every countdown clock you can find, including the one in the corner of this site, is counting to a date and not to a moment; our countdown page lets you set it to your own store region instead. The distinction is worth holding onto for the week of the 19th, because the gap between a midnight-local unlock and a synchronised one is several hours for most of the world, and the store timestamps say it is the former.

Has anything changed since the last delay?

This is the question underneath the question, so here is the honest version. The game has slipped twice: a 2025 window became 26 May 2026 in a Newswire post of 2 May 2025, and that became 19 November 2026 in a post of 6 November 2025. On Take-Two’s earnings call of 15 May 2025, as the transcript published by MarketBeat records it, Strauss Zelnick called the extra time “a worthy investment” for “such a groundbreaking project”; that is the only reason either company has given, and it is a reported quote rather than a Rockstar statement. The full history is on how many times GTA 6 has been delayed.

Two things are different from the position before either previous slip, and both are facts rather than readings:

• Rockstar is taking money. Pre-orders opened on 25 June 2026, and both previous delays were announced while nothing was on sale.
• Rockstar has published a pre-load date. That is a logistics commitment to two storefronts, not a marketing line.

What that does not give you is a guarantee. Both earlier delays were announced on the Newswire with no warning, roughly six months out each time; as this is written, on 23 September 2026, the launch is 57 days away. Draw from that what you like. We are not going to dress up an inference as news.

What we will do

If the date moves, it will move on the Rockstar Newswire first, and this page changes the same day with the announcement quoted and the old date left visible above it. The delay history is kept for exactly that reason: a page that quietly rewrites itself is worth nothing.