Grand Theft Auto VI, probably the most anticipated video game of the last ten years, will enter the next week in the critical phase of its long approach campaign. Rockstar Games has published a post on its social media and updated the official site of the game, indicating that the preorders will open on June 25, almost five months before the scheduled release for November 19, 2026. For now the platforms indicated are PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, while there is still no official price information, special editions or any version for PC.
The news counts because GTA VI has been the most observed video game of industry for years, even when Rockstar only publishes a few seconds of trailer or a new promotional image. The wait has become part of the communication itself of the game: every update is analyzed for days, often more for what it lets you guess than for what it really says. The opening of the preorders changes the type of waiting, because it brings the game out of the field of trailers and hypotheses and approaches it to the real sale.
Rockstar also published the official cover, available in the media section of the site along with artwork, screenshots and downloadable materials. The cover resumes the most recognizable visual structure of the series, with a mosaic of characters, vehicles and fragments of the setting. It is a quite consistent choice with the history of Grand Theft Auto, which for years has built a part of its identity even through very recognizable images, designed to work on packaging, digital stores, posters and social media.
The game will be set in Vice City and the imaginary state of Leonida, a fictional and amplified version of Florida. The protagonists are Jason and Lucia, a couple involved in a criminal history that Rockstar presents as extended beyond the city alone. Vice City had already been used in 2002 in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, where it was used to re-elaborate the Miami imagination of the 1980s. In GTA VI it will return in a contemporary form, built around beaches, highways, marshy areas, tourist districts, locals, social networks and small communities outside the city center.
The expectation around GTA VI also depends on the numbers of the previous chapter. Grand Theft Auto V came out in 2013 and continued to sell for over ten years, supported especially by GTA Online, which turned the game into an updated platform over time. According to Reuters, Take-Two said in May that GTA V sold nearly 230 million copies. This is the comparison with which the new chapter will come: Rockstar is preparing a very rare launch even for the standards of great video games, and the preorders of June 25 will be the first moment when that wait will become measurable.
L’articolo GTA VI has a date for preorders and the official cover comes from IlNewyorkese.
