GTA 6 is on Sony servers ahead of PS5 pre-load, report says

PS5 pre-loading opens at midnight local time on 10 November, starting in New Zealand at 11:00 GMT on 9 November. The files may already be waiting. “Grand Theft Auto VI PS5 download has gone live on Sony servers, the download manifest is up,” dataminer videotech wrote on X on the morning of 9 November, adding that the account is “now waiting for the NZ switch to go live”. Rockstar and Sony have not said this themselves.

Four add-ons on the pre-order screen

Earlier that night, at 01:53 Amsterdam time, GTA 6 Intel posted two pictures of the PS5 screen for a pre-ordered game. It lists Grand Theft Auto VI and four add-ons named Extra2, Extra3, Extra4 and Extra5, each marked “PS5 | Add-on” with an expected auto-download date of 9/11/2026. The names are plain placeholders; the screen does not say what is in them. PlayStation Game Size posted half an hour later that the current game version is 01.001.004 and that “All Extra Packs comes as License, No Extra Download (1MB Packs)”.

223 GB, or 212?

At 06:17 Amsterdam time, GTA 6 Intel wrote “GTA 6 is 223 GB on PS5”, citing PlayStation Game Size. We did not find that account’s own post with the number. Rockstar’s figure, in its Pre-Load FAQ, is that the pre-load “will require up to 212 GB of available space depending on your device”, and the PlayStation Blog tells PS5 owners to clear at least 212 GB. Our file size page has the space per console.

What Rockstar says about pre-load

Nothing in these posts moves the date. According to Rockstar, “On PlayStation 5, digital pre-load begins at midnight local time in your respective time zone on November 10, 2026”, so New Zealand gets it before Europe and the Americas. To have it download on its own, Rockstar says auto-downloads must be on and the console must be powered on or in Rest Mode. Our unlock time page has the moment for your region, and the claim in our claims register moves when Rockstar or Sony confirms it.