GTA 6 release date: November 19, 2026 — the confirmed date and full delay timeline

Grand Theft Auto VI has a firm, officially confirmed release date: November 19, 2026, on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. That date comes straight from Take-Two Interactive’s Q2 FY2026 earnings release (November 6, 2025), and it is the second date Rockstar has set — the game was first announced as “coming 2025,” then dated May 26, 2026, before it landed on its current November window. This page tracks the confirmed date, the full delay history with each announcement sourced, and — per our editorial standard — exactly what Rockstar still has not announced. For the world and cast behind the date, see the database.

One sourcing note up front: Take-Two’s investor-relations releases verify live and are our tier-1 anchors for the date. Rockstar’s own Newswire posts return 403 to automated archiving, so where they are load-bearing (the first delay) we treat them as tier-2 — official text that is not machine-archivable, admissible only once at least two reputable outlets corroborate it, which is the bar our source standard sets.

The confirmed date

• Release date: November 19, 2026.
• Platforms: PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S — the only two officially confirmed. No PC, PS4, Xbox One, or Nintendo Switch / Switch 2 version has been announced.
• Digital preload: November 12, 2026, one week ahead of launch, for players who buy a digital version.

The date was set in Take-Two’s Q2 FY2026 earnings release, dated November 6, 2025 (for the quarter ended September 30, 2025), which states plainly that “Rockstar Games will now release Grand Theft Auto VI on November 19, 2026.” That release verifies live and is our tier-1 source; the move was widely reported by outlets including Variety and ScreenRant.

The November 12 preload date is confirmed too — it is stated in Take-Two’s pre-orders release (June 24, 2026) and corroborated by outlets such as TheSixthAxis. It is therefore not an open question, and you will not find it in the “still unannounced” list below.

As prose, not a ticker: from today, July 27, 2026, November 19, 2026 is 115 days away. We do not run a live countdown — the number here is simple arithmetic off the official date, and it is only as current as this page’s date.

The full delay timeline

The headline “November 19, 2026” hides a two-delay history. Each step below is tied to the announcement that set it.

”Coming 2025” — announced December 4, 2023

GTA VI was first revealed with Trailer 1 on December 4, 2023, uploaded to the official @RockstarGames YouTube channel after a leak forced an early release. The reveal tagged the game “coming 2025” — a window, not a dated launch. (For the full trailer history, see our trailers timeline.)

First delay: May 26, 2026 — announced May 2, 2025

On May 2, 2025, Rockstar announced via its Newswire that GTA VI was moving out of the 2025 window to a specific date: May 26, 2026. The Newswire post is tier-2 (it returns 403 to automated archiving), but its title appeared verbatim in search indexes and the delay was index-corroborated by two independent outlets — CNN and Variety. Days later, Trailer 2 arrived on May 6, 2025, reaffirming that then-current May 26, 2026 window.

Second delay: November 19, 2026 — announced November 6, 2025

The second delay moved the game from May 26, 2026 to its current date, November 19, 2026, announced in Take-Two’s Q2 FY2026 earnings release on November 6, 2025 (again corroborated by Variety).

So the complete date history reads: “coming 2025” (Dec 4, 2023) → May 26, 2026 (announced May 2, 2025) → November 19, 2026 (announced Nov 6, 2025). Two delays in total.

Is the date firm?

November 19, 2026 is the firm official date per Take-Two, and management has publicly reaffirmed it — Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has said the game will not be delayed again. That reaches us as a press report of an on-record remark, not as an archivable official statement — we have not matched it to a Take-Two investor-relations release or transcript, which makes it the weakest-tier citation on this page. We report that as what it is: an executive statement of confidence, attributed — not an immutable guarantee. The date is the best information available and the one to plan around; the two prior delays are simply the reason we phrase it that way rather than promising it can never move.

What is still unannounced

Honesty is the product, so in one place, here is what Rockstar has not said as of July 27, 2026:

• Trailer 3. No third trailer and no date for one has been announced. The window the games press keeps floating — late July into mid-August, often pinned to Take-Two’s August 7, 2026 earnings call — is projection off past Rockstar marketing cycles, not an announcement (see Forbes and Digit). Fake “Trailer 3” uploads circulate — the tell is that the uploader is not the official @RockstarGames channel. We track Trailer 3 status in our trailers timeline.
• Review embargo / review date. No Rockstar or Take-Two channel has published a review embargo or review-copy timing, and no reliable source states one exists.
• PC, PS4, Xbox One, or Switch / Switch 2 versions. Only PS5 and Xbox Series X|S are confirmed. Any last-gen, PC, or Switch release is unannounced — do not read its absence here as “coming soon.” See platforms.

Separately unconfirmed and often misreported: map-size numbers and voice-actor casting. Neither has an official figure or announcement behind it. Note the one thing that is now confirmed and does not belong on this list: the November 12, 2026 digital preload date, covered above.

When Rockstar names or announces any of these — a Trailer 3 date, a review embargo, a new platform — this page and the database update the same day, and our FAQ carries the short answers with sources attached.

Changelog

• 2026-07-27 — Maintenance pass, no new claims. Countdown recomputed off the same official date (115 days, from July 27). The Trailer 3 pointer now goes to our trailers timeline; the page it used to name was unpublished on 2026-07-26 and no longer exists. Narrowed the tier-2 note to the first delay — Trailer 2 is cited to the official @RockstarGames upload, which is tier-1, so calling it tier-2 understated it. Labelled the Zelnick reaffirmation as the press-tier citation it is. The May 2, 2025 delay now carries the second corroboration our tier-2 rule requires (Variety alongside CNN), and the sourcing note above states that two-outlet bar outright. The “still unannounced” tracker was re-checked against outside reporting and re-stamped to July 27: still no announced Trailer 3 and nothing official, with the press window now running late July into mid-August and commonly pinned to Take-Two’s August 7 earnings call — projection, not an announcement, and labelled as such.
• 2026-07-18 — Initial version: confirms the November 19, 2026 date sourced to Take-Two’s Q2 FY2026 earnings, lays out the full two-delay timeline with each announcement cited, and tracks what remains unannounced (Trailer 3, review embargo, non-PS5/Xbox platforms).