GTA 6 costs $79.99. Rockstar confirmed it on June 25, 2026, the day pre-orders opened, and it settled a question the whole industry had been circling for two years. The $69.99 ceiling that held for the last console generation did not hold for GTA 6. There is also an Ultimate Edition at $99.99. Here is the full breakdown by platform and region, why the price landed where it did, and whether it is worth paying.
The confirmed prices
Two editions, both digital, both confirmed:
- Standard Edition: $79.99. The full game on PS5 and Xbox Series X and S. Nothing cut.
- Ultimate Edition: $99.99. The same base game plus a bundle of in-game content: extra vehicles, mod shop access, and a Classic Car Collection.
Both editions include the same pre-order bonus, the Vintage Vice City Pack. There is no third tier and no physical Collector’s Edition. If you want the full comparison of what the extra $20 buys, read our Ultimate vs Standard breakdown.
Rockstar sets these prices, so they are the same across the Rockstar Store, the PlayStation Store, the Xbox and Microsoft Store, Amazon, GameStop, and Best Buy in the US. No retailer is cheaper.
PS5 price
On PlayStation 5, GTA 6 costs $79.99 for Standard and $99.99 for Ultimate.
The PS5 Digital Edition, the console without a disc drive, does not change the price. You pay the same and download instead of redeeming a code. Sony’s digital pricing matches retail pricing for new releases, and GTA 6 is no exception.
Xbox Series X and S price
Same numbers on Xbox: $79.99 for Standard, $99.99 for Ultimate, on both Series X and Series S.
The Series S costs less as a console but the game does not cost less on it. Publishers almost never price a Series S version below the Series X version, and Rockstar did not.
Worth knowing if you are buying hardware alongside the game: Xbox console prices rise on August 1, 2026. Our Xbox price increase breakdown covers what changes.
PC price
There is no PC version at launch and Rockstar has not announced one. No date, no price, nothing official.
Based on Rockstar’s pattern, detailed in our release date guide, a PC version usually follows the console release by 12 to 19 months. That would put it somewhere in 2027 or 2028. Any PC price you see quoted anywhere is a guess, including ours, so we are not going to give you a number and pretend it is real. When Rockstar announces it, this page gets updated.
Why the price went to $79.99
The $69.99 standard arrived with the PS5 and Xbox Series X in 2020 and stuck for years. Plenty of people, including us, expected Rockstar to sit on it. That read was wrong, and the reasons GTA 6 went higher are worth understanding because they tell you where console pricing is heading.
Take-Two, Rockstar’s parent company, has been signalling this for years. CEO Strauss Zelnick said on a 2020 earnings call: “We believe in variable pricing. We’ve always believed in variable pricing. We think that you should price titles based on what you’re delivering to the consumer, and the experience that you’re delivering.” He repeated versions of that line for years without ever naming a GTA 6 price. GTA 6 is where the philosophy turned into a number.
The production case is straightforward. GTA 6 has been in development for somewhere between seven and thirteen years depending on how you count, longer than any previous Rockstar game. Reporting has put the peak team size above 1,000 people across multiple Rockstar studios. GTA 5’s development and marketing budget was estimated at $265 million back in 2013. A project of GTA 6’s scale and duration costs far more than that, and Rockstar priced accordingly.
The commercial case is that Rockstar had almost no downside. GTA 5 sold over 200 million copies. Demand for GTA 6 is not price-sensitive in the way a mid-tier release is. A $10 increase on a game tens of millions of people had already decided to buy is close to free money, and every other publisher now has cover to follow.
Whether you think that is fair depends on where you sit. The honest read is that Rockstar tested the ceiling because it was the one publisher that could, and it worked.
Regional pricing
Rockstar has not published a public regional price table we can cite, and we have not verified individual store pages outside the US. The US figures below are confirmed. Everything else on this list is our estimate, derived from the $79.99 US price plus each region’s usual tax and distribution pattern. Check your own storefront for the exact number before you buy.
United States (confirmed): $79.99 Standard, $99.99 Ultimate. Sales tax varies by state, from 0% to over 10%, so your checkout total may land between $79.99 and roughly $88.
United Kingdom (estimate): around £70 for Standard. UK prices include 20% VAT in the displayed figure, so the sticker looks closer to the US number than a straight currency conversion suggests.
European Union (estimate): around €90 for Standard. EU pricing includes VAT and generally runs above the US price after conversion.
India (estimate, unconfirmed): Amazon India listed the PS5 version at Rs. 5,999 earlier in 2026. We have not re-verified that listing against the confirmed $79.99 US price, so treat Rs. 5,999 as unconfirmed rather than a current figure. Check the live listing: GTA 6 on PS5 at Amazon.
Australia (estimate): around AUD 125 for Standard. Australian pricing includes 10% GST and regional distribution costs.
Japan (estimate): around JPY 11,000 for Standard, based on where major PS5 titles have settled.
Historical GTA launch prices, adjusted for inflation
This is the context that makes $79.99 easier to judge. Here is what every mainline GTA cost at launch, with rough CPI-adjusted equivalents in 2026 dollars. The adjusted figures are approximations, not precise conversions.
GTA 3 (2001): $49.99 at launch, roughly $88 in 2026 dollars.
GTA Vice City (2002): $49.99 at launch, roughly $86 in 2026 dollars.
GTA San Andreas (2004): $49.99 at launch, roughly $80 in 2026 dollars.
GTA 4 (2008): $59.99 at launch, roughly $87 in 2026 dollars.
GTA 5 (2013): $59.99 at launch, roughly $79 in 2026 dollars.
GTA 6 (2026): $79.99 at launch. That is 2026 dollars already.
Read that list again, because it cuts against the reaction the $79.99 announcement got. In real terms, GTA 6 costs about what GTA 5 cost, and less than GTA 3, Vice City, or GTA 4. The nominal price climbed from $49.99 to $79.99 across 25 years, and inflation ate most of that.
That does not make $79.99 painless. It is $10 more than the game you bought last year, out of the same wallet, and the increase is real. But GTA games have not become more expensive relative to everything else you buy. Movie tickets, concert tickets, and streaming subscriptions have all outrun game prices over the same period.
Is GTA 6 worth $79.99?
Depends how you measure.
By hours of content, almost certainly. GTA 5’s story campaign ran 30 to 50 hours, and GTA Online held players for over a decade. If GTA 6 delivers a comparable campaign plus an online mode, your cost per hour drops under a dollar fast. Very little else you spend $80 on returns that ratio.
By what you actually get for the money, the Standard edition is the whole game. No mission, no district, and no core system is locked behind Ultimate. You are not paying $79.99 for a partial product, which is not something you can say about every AAA release at this price.
By personal interest, that is your call and nobody else’s. If you loved GTA 5 and want more of it in a new city, $79.99 is a fair number for the thing you have been waiting a decade for. If you are lukewarm on GTA, $79.99 is a lot to spend on finding out, and waiting for reviews costs you nothing but a few weeks.
For where to buy and which edition to pick, see our GTA 6 pre-order guide and our retailer comparison.
Will the price drop?
Not soon. This is one of the most consistent things about Rockstar as a publisher: their games hold price for years while other AAA titles are discounted within months.
GTA 5 launched at $59.99 in September 2013 and did not see a permanent drop to $39.99 until 2017, four years later. Red Dead Redemption 2 launched at $59.99 in October 2018 and held until a permanent drop in 2021, three years later. Both saw occasional promotional discounts before that, but the list price barely moved.
Expect the same shape from GTA 6:
- First six months (November 2026 to May 2027): $79.99. Possibly a small promotional discount at a specific retailer around Black Friday, likely $10 at most.
- Six to twelve months: still $79.99 at most stores, with 10% to 15% off during major digital sales events at best.
- Twelve to eighteen months: a permanent drop is plausible, especially if a PC version arrives and Rockstar wants a second sales wave.
- Two years and beyond: discounting gets real, probably alongside a bundle that includes online content.
Those are projections from Rockstar’s own history, not announcements. Rockstar has said nothing about future pricing.
Should you wait for a sale?
If you play games at launch, follow the discussion, and want to be in the world during the first few weeks when everyone is discovering it together: buy at launch. That window does not come back. You pay $79.99 and you get your money’s worth inside 50 hours.
If you are patient and genuinely do not mind arriving late, waiting will save you real money, but you are looking at 2028 before the discount is meaningful. By then you will have spent a year dodging spoilers about the most talked-about game of the decade. For some people that trade is fine. For most GTA fans it is not.
The middle path is worth naming: wait for reviews, not for a sale. Reviews land within days of launch, cost you nothing, and answer the only question that actually matters, which is whether the game is good.
Pre-order GTA 6
GTA 6 is available to pre-order now. Standard is $79.99 and Ultimate is $99.99, and both include the Vintage Vice City Pack.