GTA 6: All the news on Rockstar’s next game and its first trailer

After more than a decade, Rockstar Games will finally deliver a sequel to Grand Theft Auto 5, the open-world crime spree that has sold more than 200 million copies across multiple console generations. In 2023, GTA fans got their first official look at Grand Theft Auto 6 in the form of a teaser trailer.

We already knew some details about GTA 6, after an unprecedented leak of the game in 2022, but the game’s first trailer blew the lid off. It’s full of street-level chaos, including illegal street races, convenience-store robberies, gator wrangling, and general Floridian weirdness. The trailer also shows its dual protagonists getting up to all sorts of low-level crime.

Here’s everything we do know about Grand Theft Auto 6 so far.

When is GTA 6’s release date?

Rockstar hasn’t announced a release date yet for Grand Theft Auto 6, but publisher Take-Two Interactive has narrowed down a release window: fall 2025. The publisher reconfirmed that timing in a February 2025 earnings call.

While GTA 6 may be targeting a fall 2025 release, Rockstar is famous for delaying its biggest games in the name of polish. Its last major release, Red Dead Redemption 2, was publicly delayed three times. And back in 2013, Grand Theft Auto 5 saw a significant delay, slipping from its original spring release date to its ultimate September 2013 launch.

In other words, even if Rockstar gives us a release date or window, history tells us that nothing is set in stone.

When does the GTA 6 trailer come out?

Good news. It’s out! Rockstar released the first Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer in December 2023 — a day early, in response to a leak. Enjoy the chaotic South Florida vibes, which are set to Tom Petty’s “Love Is a Long Road.”

OK, but when does the NEXT GTA 6 trailer come out?

Rockstar hasn’t announced a second trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6, despite the community desperately searching for clues for a GTA 6 trailer 2 release date. Suffice it to say, when Rockstar is ready to show more GTA 6 footage, it will announce it loudly and proudly.

Where is GTA 6 taking place?

Grand Theft Auto 6 will be set in Vice City, GTA’s fictional version of Miami. That location was previously explored in 2002’s Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and its 2006 prequel, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. Those entries were set during the mid-1980s, but GTA 6 will tell a modern-day, Bonnie and Clyde-inspired story featuring two leads named Jason and Lucia, based on early gameplay videos and leaks. Lucia would be the GTA series’ first playable female protagonist in a mainline game.

What happened with the big GTA 6 leak?

In 2022, more than 90 videos of the in-development version of Grand Theft Auto 6 were published online at the message board GTAForums. The hacker responsible claimed to have accessed the videos — some 50 minutes in total footage — directly from Rockstar Games’ internal Slack.

Those leaks show police chases, robberies, gunplay, open-world driving, a crowded nightclub scene, and conversations with full voice acting. The game footage was clearly not intended to be shown publicly, with debug programming elements visible on-screen at the time.

One of the longer videos showed the female player character robbing a diner, as well as threatening staff and customers, who react in fear to having a gun pulled on them. Then she and her male accomplice get in a shootout with police before jumping in the police patrol car and driving off. The game’s graphical treatment is quite realistic, but still consistent with GTA games’ style.

How long has GTA 6 been in development?

Reportedly since 2014, though Rockstar did not officially acknowledge the game’s existence until February 2022.

What platforms will GTA 6 be released on?

GTA publisher Take-Two Interactive announced that Grand Theft Auto 6 will come to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X in 2025. A PC version has not been announced. That’s not uncommon for Grand Theft Auto games, though; the series has had staggered releases on consoles and PC, and the lack of an announced PC version certainly doesn’t rule one out at this point.

In May 2024, at a tech conference, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick addressed the question (albeit indirectly) about a PC port of GTA 6, saying “the lack of an announcement is not something that could be set in stone, near as I could tell.”

“Rockstar has an approach to platforms we’ve seen before, and they will make more announcements in due time,” Zelnick added. “I do believe that the right strategy for our business is to be where the consumer is, and historically what this company has done is address consumers anywhere they are, [on] any platform that makes sense, over time.”

There’s another potential platform coming that could be home to Grand Theft Auto 6: Nintendo Switch 2. Rockstar has embraced the Switch with releases like L.A. Noire, Red Dead Redemption, and Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy — The Definitive Edition, so don’t rule out an eventual release of GTA 6 on Switch 2, which is also confirmed for a 2025 launch.

How much will GTA 6 cost?

Rockstar and publisher Take-Two haven’t announced a price point, but it seems likely that Grand Theft Auto 6 will carry a $69.99 price point, increasingly the standard for AAA video games with big budgets. But expect pricing to be one of the very last things that Rockstar announces when it comes to revealing new details about GTA 6.

Is GTA 6 going to cost $100?

Speculation that Grand Theft Auto 6 could cost, at a base level, $100 appears to come from a report from Epyllion analyst Matthew Ball. In his presentation The State of Video Gaming in 2025, Ball said that “some gamemakers hope GTA 6 will be priced at $80-100, breaking the $70 barrier” and effectively raising the price going forward of many video games.

Ball’s presentation garnered a lot of buzz on social media, even though he never said GTA 6 will cost $100, just that some game makers would certainly like to see that happen. The situation is not unlike earlier comments from Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, which were misinterpreted to imply that GTA 6 could cost up to $150 or be priced by the hour.

Of course, there may be higher-priced premium or collector’s edition versions of GTA 6 that cost more than the increasingly industry-standard buy-in price of $69.99. When Rockstar launched Red Dead Redemption 2 in 2018, it released a standard $59.99 version of the game alongside a $79.99 special edition and a $99.99 ultimate edition. The game maker could follow a similar pricing scheme for GTA 6, but the real windfall will come after the game’s release, in the form of game subscriptions and sales of premium currencies.

Hold your horses (and your pre-orders) until Rockstar makes the price of GTA 6 official.

What happens to Grand Theft Auto Online when GTA 6 comes out?

Rockstar hasn’t said, but given the massive popularity of GTA Online, which is also sold as a stand-alone experience, it will likely continue. Rockstar may have more grand ambitions for an online mode for GTA 6, and it may run two versions of the online experience for each game. The future of GTA Online is one of the biggest open questions — not to mention Rockstar’s trickiest needle to thread — when it comes to discussing GTA 6. Rockstar may very well keep those plans under wraps for the foreseeable future.