GTA 6 release date and unlock time
Grand Theft Auto VI comes out on Thursday 19 November 2026, on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. The date is official. The exact minute it unlocks in your region isn’t, yet.
The date: Thursday 19 November 2026
Rockstar moved the game to 19 November 2026 in a Newswire post in November 2025, and the Take-Two pre-order announcement in June 2026 repeats that date for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Both the UK and the US get the game on the same calendar day.
If you buy digitally, you can preload from 12 November, a week early, so the download is out of the way before launch. More on that in the preload guide.
What time does it unlock?
Rockstar has not confirmed regional unlock times as of 18 October 2026. GamingBible noted on 13 October that exact unlock times per region were still to be announced, and warned that retailer countdowns to a specific minute may not be accurate.
So treat any “unlocks at 00:00” or “unlocks at 23:00 the night before” claim as a guess until Rockstar, PlayStation or Xbox publish it. We’ll update this page when they do.
The road to 19 November
GTA VI was first set for 2025, then moved to 26 May 2026, and then to 19 November 2026, according to the timeline in GamingBible’s launch round-up. Pre-orders opened at midnight local time on 25 June 2026 (Take-Two).
Want a live clock? The GTA 6 countdown counts down to the start of 19 November in your own time zone.