GTA 6 costs $79.99, and the Ultimate Edition is $99.99

Grand Theft Auto 6 costs $79.99 for the standard edition and $99.99 for the Ultimate Edition. Pre-orders opened at midnight on 25 June 2026.

What each edition gets you

• Standard, $79.99. The full single-player story across Vice City and Leonida. Neither edition includes the online mode, which isn't there at launch.
• Ultimate, $99.99. Adds vehicles, weapons, apparel and a salon, threaded through the campaign instead of walled off in a separate mode.

There's no collector's, deluxe or special edition beyond those two. If you're holding out for a steelbook with a statue in it, nobody's announced one.

The extra twenty dollars doesn't arrive all at once

Most coverage skips this bit, and it changes the decision.

Rockstar's own wording is that the Ultimate Edition is an exclusive collection of items threaded across all aspects of the story. Threaded is the important word there. The content becomes available as you reach the chapters it belongs to, so you don't get it in a lump at midnight.

Better still, the upgrade's sold separately and you can buy it any time. So you can get the standard game, play it, and decide in December whether the extras are worth it. By then you'll know whether you're the sort of player who actually reaches the chapters they're threaded through. We went through the whole thing here.

Nothing in the pricier edition gets you in early. Everyone gets it at the same midnight for their store region.

The boxed copy is just a code

A boxed copy exists, but what's inside is a download code. There's no disc.

That matters more than it sounds. You can lend a disc, sell it on, or play it on a machine that's offline. A redeemed code is tied for good to the account that used it, so there's basically no second-hand market for this game. If you buy physical so you can trade your games in afterwards, this won't work for you.

It isn't a backup either. Preloading opens 12 November and the download's estimated at 150 to 200GB whichever version you buy (Rockstar hasn't given a figure), so the case in your hand saves you nothing on launch night.

Where eighty dollars sits

At $79.99, the standard price puts Grand Theft Auto 6 at the top of the current console tier, and no higher. That's worth remembering, since a lot of pre-launch coverage predicted a $100 base game.

Console games sat at $59.99 for most of two decades, went up to $69.99 with the PlayStation 5 generation, and have been drifting toward $79.99 since. Several publishers had already reached that ceiling, and Rockstar's confirming it here.

The genuinely unusual bit is that there's nothing above the Ultimate. No $150 edition with an art book and a map, which is the usual way to get more out of the people who'll pay anything. Two editions and an upgrade path is a pretty restrained line-up for a game this size.