GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch

Rockstar Games has yet announced the terms of GTA 6, portion confirming it features a “single-player experience” astatine launch.

Rockstar said GTA 6 costs $79.99 crossed PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S, confirming a $10 leap from the modular $70 we’ve seen this generation. The Ultimate Edition, meanwhile, is $20 more, priced $99.99.

There’s nary connection yet connected immoderate caller mentation of GTA Online, which suggests the existing acquisition volition proceed to run arsenic GTA 6 launches this November.

The terms of GTA 6 had been 1 of the biggest talking points successful the video crippled industry, with immoderate analysts suggesting Rockstar could spell arsenic precocious arsenic $100 for the basal game. It hasn't gone rather that far, but by mounting a $79.99 price, it whitethorn unfastened the floodgates for each caller triple-A games to travel suit. Only Nintendo has sold a caller crippled for $80 truthful acold (Switch 2 motorboat rubric Mario Kart World), with Microsoft backtracking connected its ain plans to bash the aforesaid past year.

Preorders for GTA 6 motorboat astatine midnight section clip connected June 25, with the Ultimate Edition and preorder bonuses already detailed. GTA 6 carnal copies bash not see a disc, Rockstar has confirmed. They're conscionable a codification successful a box.

Rockstar is yet pulling backmost the curtain connected GTA 6 arsenic it nears launch. Alongside the Ultimate Edition and preorder bonus announcement is simply a important GTA 6 screenshot release, showing up much of the game. We besides person authoritative GTA 6 screen art, and a caller look astatine Vice City.

Discussion of the terms of GTA 6 comes amid speculation it whitethorn beryllium the astir costly video crippled ever made, with genitor institution Take-Two estimated to person spent $1-1.5 cardinal truthful far. Earlier this year, Business Insider suggested the eye-watering fund based connected manufacture expert estimations arsenic portion of an interrogation with Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick. Zelnick wouldn’t accidental however overmuch the institution had spent connected GTA 6 truthful far, but did admit “it was expensive.”

To enactment GTA 6 into context, astir of the triple-A video crippled budgets that marque headlines bash truthful for being successful the hundreds of millions of dollars range. Bungie's precocious released extraction shooter reportedly had a fund of implicit $250 million, for example. Concord's archetypal improvement woody was astir $200 million, according to a study by Kotaku. In 2023, caller documents submitted arsenic portion of the Xbox Federal Trade Commission lawsuit accidentally revealed The Last of Us: Part II and Horizon Forbidden West each outgo much than $200 cardinal to develop. Last year, the astronomical improvement budgets of the Call of Duty games were revealed for the archetypal clip aft a tribunal papers confirmed Activision pumped $700 cardinal into Black Ops Cold War alone, though that was implicit the shooter's beingness cycle. GTA 6, clearly, surpasses them all.

Neither Take-Two nor Rockstar has explained the determination to spell to $80 for GTA 6, but arsenic reported by IGN, Zelnick told an assemblage astatine iicon precocious that “consumers wage for the worth that you bring to them, and our occupation is to complaint mode way mode little of the worth delivery. How you consciousness astir thing you bargain is the intersection of the happening itself and what you wage for. Consumers request to consciousness similar the happening itself is astonishing and the terms they were charged was just for what they got.”

GTA 6 launches connected November 19, 2026.

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].