“Rockstar” recently revealed, through the second trailer for the game “Grand Theft Auto 6” or “GTA 6” (GTA 6), the start date for pre-booking for the game, which will be officially released on November 19 on the home platforms PlayStation 5 and Xbox, according to a report by the British newspaper “The Independent”.
GTA 6 is one of the most anticipated and spent entertainment projects because the game has been in development for more than 13 years since the release of the fifth part.
The previous part was able to sell more than 225 million copies of the game across all platforms on which it was released, according to an independent report from the American technical website Wccftech.
The report also states that the company spent more than $3 billion in employee salaries between 2019 and 2025, which reflects the amount of spending on other aspects of the game.
But what does GTA 6 offer to justify all this spending? Can the game live up to the level expected of it?
When and where will GTA 6 be released?
The release date of GTA 6 has been subjected to a large number of postponements since it was first announced in December 2023, as the game was supposed to be released in 2025 without specifying a month for its release.
But in May 2025, the developing company decided to extend the deadline for developing the game to 2026, to be released in May 2026, and it was later postponed to its current date, which is the deadline for launching it on the PlayStation and Xbox devices.
For its part, Rockstar explained in several press releases that it needed a longer period to finish developing the game in a way that befits it, so we can expect an unprecedented level of development in GTA 6.
Rockstar maintains its habit of releasing games that began with GTA 3, releasing the game first on home platforms and then on the personal computer. The WCCF Tech report indicates the possibility of releasing the game in late 2027 or early 2028.
Why won’t GTA 6 be released on PC from the beginning?
Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two, the company responsible for publishing GTA 6, explained that their company’s philosophy has always been to focus on home platforms first, make sure the game is released well and appropriately on them, and then move to the personal computer, according to a report by the “Tech Radar” website.
But the report states that there is another side to the company’s behavior, as it seeks to boost “GTA” sales by initially releasing it on platforms and then transferring it to the personal computer.
The PC version of GTA always has a multiplayer mode and allows users to modify the game and add new features and characters to it, as happened with GTA 5, which allows the game to survive for a long period of time.
In these cases, it becomes better for the company to postpone launching the game on PC until it boosts its sales and the customization capabilities in its engine become available and ready.
Price is close to $100
A report by the American news site “Vice” reveals the expected price of “GTA 6” after the game appeared in a European store. The report suggests that the game will come at a price close to $80 for the standard version of the game, with some copies approaching the price of $200.
However, Rockstar has not yet determined the final price for the game, and the final price is expected to appear with the start of pre-booking in the coming days, according to the report.
The first female championship
Rockstar is trying to do many different things in GTA 6, including adding a heroine to the game for the first time, as the game stars two characters, Jason Duvall and Lucia Camiones.
Although the details about the mechanism of transition between the two characters are still unclear, according to the WCC FTech website, it will most likely be similar to what happened in the previous part when the player chose one of the three characters to play with.
The characters in the game have a story directly linked to the criminal world in Vice City, but the company’s official data suggests that they are low-level criminals compared to the rest of the criminals appearing in the game and its criminal world.
The game has a variety of different supporting characters, ranging from social influencers and rappers to gangsters and friends.
The game “GTA 6” differs from the rest of the games in the series in that it simulates the modern era in all its details, so it is expected that influencers, social media platforms, digital currencies, and other attributes of the era will have a prominent presence in the events of the game and the details of the various characters.
Returning to Vice City after years
The Independent report confirms that in this part we return to the famous city of Vice City, which previously had its own part, but this time the world expands to include a group of regions that are geographically different from Vice City, but connected to it.
The game includes an area of swamps and sub-tropical forests, along with an industrial city, an industrial port, and even a group of connected islands in the southern part of the map, as well as a mountainous area and an additional area, the details of which the game has not yet revealed.
The evolution of “GTA Online”
The multiplayer part of GTA 5 achieved unprecedented public success, as it was the first time that the game had a multiplayer mode that forced players to remain inside its world even after the story mode ended.
Although the game was released more than 13 years ago, the multiplayer mode is still prominent in game broadcast lists on various platforms thanks to its wide modification possibilities and the different experiences it offers.
The WCC FTech report confirms the company’s intention to provide an experience that mimics the famous MMO games, meaning that the multiplayer experience will include more details with its own stores and more advanced modification features than before.
It is also stated that the game will provide users with the ability to sell customizations and objects that they design and develop within the game.
What’s new in GTA 6?
Over the past years, Rockstar has obtained a group of different patents related to the world of gaming, and although it has not officially confirmed the use of these patents in the game, the WCC FTech report suggests that they are used in it.
Among these technologies comes a set of advantages related to the side characters in the game, as this patent gives the secondary characters different and changing characteristics based on the events of the game, as well as making them move dynamically and constantly adapt to the variables within the game.
Other patents relate to technical aspects that work in the background of the game to improve the graphical level, character movement, and even enhance the graphics within the game.
The report also indicates a group of side activities that may take place alongside the main tasks within the game, including basketball matches, even golf matches, fishing, sports battles, and store robberies.
Internet connection
On the other hand, a rumor has spread on social media that GTA 6 will require a permanent Internet connection, even in the single-player story mode, which players used to play offline in the previous version. These leaks claim that the reason behind this is that the game world is so complex that it relies on online cloud processing to operate artificial intelligence and game physics.
But so far, the company has not confirmed or denied the veracity of this rumor, with some opinions refuting the veracity of these allegations, stressing that the game is designed to run locally at full strength on various platforms because the company will not technically take the risk of banning millions of players who do not have high and stable internet speeds from playing the single-player mode.
Game rating
As of June 2026, the game has not received an official final rating from the US ESRB, and is still listed on many stores as “rated under review” or “likely 17+”.
However, almost all observers expect the game to receive a rating of +17 in America and +18 in Europe, like its previous version.
Other sources indicate that the game was recently spotted on the Xbox Store in the Arab region with a rating of +21, due to the harsh and violent content, strong profanity, sexual content and innuendos, in addition to drug and alcohol abuse.
