How to Prepare for Grand Theft Auto 6 Preorders

In lawsuit you someway missed the news, Grand Theft Auto 6 preorders commencement June 25 astatine midnight section time, depending connected your region. Now I've covered a fewer large preorders successful my time, astir notably the PS5 six years agone and the Nintendo Switch 2 conscionable past year, and successful my experience, it ever goes the same: complete and utter chaos! Websites crash. Queues form. Social media melts down. You cognize the drill.

GTA 6 Preorders - Cheat Sheet

• Preorders commencement astatine midnight section clip connected June 25, 2026.
• GTA 6 volition outgo $79.99: Retailers similar Amazon and Walmart won't complaint you to preorder until the crippled ships. If you privation other clip to prevention up, this is your champion option.
• Follow @IGNFinds and @IGN connected X/Twitter - crook notifications connected for instant updates.
• Bookmark retailer pages (e.g., Amazon) to get a caput commencement astatine midnight.
• Bookmark IGN's GTA 6 preorder guide: We'll beryllium updating it done to November 19, 2026.
• Don't panic! Retailer sites volition apt crash, oregon go highly slow, from a monolithic influx of traffic. Stay the course, and you'll yet beryllium capable to unafraid your copy.
• If you can, add the crippled to your retailer circumstantial wishlist whenever possible, and preorder via there. This volition navigate astir the monolithic influx of postulation hitting the retailer pages.
• Log successful to to your favourite retailers, and person your recognition paper saved + each different applicable info, transportation code etc, acceptable to go.

GTA 6: Should I Preorder a Physical oregon Digital Copy?

Grand Theft Auto 6 - Preorders Start June 25 - Credit: Rockstar

The evident counterpoint to the thought of "physically owning" GTA 6 takes a spot of a deed erstwhile you retrieve there's nary disc successful the box, conscionable a download code.

While this surely isn't ideal, and decidedly won't satify astir carnal media advocates, myself included, I tin absolutely inactive spot radical wanting to ain the container arsenic a collector's item, a memento, oregon simply a marker of gaming history.

And there's nary shame successful that. Let's beryllium honest, this is astir apt going to beryllium the biggest crippled motorboat of each time. I'll beryllium treating it arsenic such, and you should too. (Still, it besides would've been bully if they included a disc arsenic well).

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My 2nd crushed is simply a somewhat much economical one. How sensible of me.

The planetary system is simply a spot dicey close present (potentially understatement of the year, I know). Now, that's not going to halt millions of radical buying GTA 6, but an $80 terms tag is decidedly capable to marque astatine slightest some of america hesitate. At least, that's what Reddit commenters support telling me, and they're famously the astir intelligent among us.

For anyone who's not thrilled astir paying $80 contiguous for a integer copy, and past waiting respective months to really play the crippled (or simply doesn't person the currency disposable close now) a carnal preorder done retailers similar Amazon, Walmart, oregon Best Buy could marque much sense.

Thanks to their preorder guarantees, these retailers won't complaint you until your bid ships. So if you're readying to dispersed the outgo implicit the 2nd fractional of the year, a carnal preorder whitethorn really beryllium the smarter option.

Still, astatine the extremity of the day, this is wholly subjective. Just bash immoderate is champion for you. Want to bargain digitally? Go for it. Fancy a carnal transcript to hold the cost, oregon arsenic a collector's item? Crack on!

Try Not to Panic When Preordering GTA 6

GTA 6 - Vintage Vice City Pack - Credit: Rockstar

I deliberation it's beauteous inevitable that retailer sites volition crash, oregon go highly slow, from the monolithic influx of postulation erstwhile GTA 6 preorders spell live. My advice? Stay the course, and you'll yet beryllium capable to unafraid your copy, adjacent if it takes a spot longer than you'd like.

One of the biggest reasons I expect GTA 6 preorders to beryllium a batch much manageable than thing similar the Nintendo Switch 2 motorboat is simple: it's software.

This is simply a crippled that tin only beryllium downloaded. There isn't a constricted Collector's Edition that's going to vanish successful 30 seconds. There's a modular variation and an "Ultimate Edition" with immoderate other in-game goodies for $20 much (i.e. nary carnal bonus items).

That's fundamentally it. Everyone is buying 1 of 2 versions of the aforesaid thing. It's improbable retailers volition merchantability out, simply due to the fact that the lone happening Rockstar is manufacturing is simply a integrative container with a download codification included. No discs required.

Honestly, it mightiness adjacent beryllium worthy giving the full June 25 unreserved a miss and simply preordering whenever you consciousness similar it betwixt present and November 19. It's not going to merchantability out, is it? Surely?

Well, retrieve erstwhile I said radical would beryllium buying GTA 6 arsenic a collector's item? That's wherever things get a small little straightforward.

If you're perfectly determined to ain a Grand Theft Auto 6 container with a PS5 oregon Xbox logo slapped crossed the top, past possibly you're allowed a tiny magnitude of panic. Rockstar has stated that carnal preorders are disposable "while banal lasts", which suggests determination is, successful fact, a bounds to however galore copies volition beryllium produced.

Now, does that mean carnal editions volition go genuinely hard to find? Probably not. Does it mean Rockstar has simply decided connected a definite fig of integrative boxes, printed them all, and called it a day? Maybe.

Nobody extracurricular Rockstar knows for sure. But if the carnal container itself is important to you, that's astir apt the 1 script wherever preordering sooner alternatively than aboriginal makes immoderate sense.

GTA 6's Preorder Bonuses and Ultimate Edition Explained

GTA 6 Ultimate Edition - $99.99 - Credit: Rockstar

So, what astir preorder bonuses? And that Ultimate Edition I support mentioning, is it really worthy the other $20? All successful bully time, my friends.

First up, each GTA 6 preorder, whether carnal oregon digital, comes with the Vintage Vice City Pack. As agelong arsenic you preorder earlier November 20, you'll get the aforesaid bonus careless of wherever you bargain the game.

The Vintage Vice City Pack includes a fistful of themed cosmetics and extras inspired by the neon-soaked glory days of Vice City, including a classical '55 Vapid Stanier, a idiosyncratic store adjacent Ocean Beach, immoderate flashy outfits for Jason and Lucia, and a limb tegument inspired by Tommy Vercetti's legendary tropical shirt.

It's a decent small postulation of bonuses, though it's astir apt not the benignant of happening that should person anyone to preorder who wasn't already readying to. If you've waited thirteen years for GTA 6, I fishy a escaped linen suit isn't going to beryllium the deciding factor.

The bigger question is whether the Ultimate Edition is worthy spending $100 connected alternatively of $80. Once again, I indispensable punctual you that the Ultimate Edition lone includes integer bonus items, and doesn't travel with immoderate existent satellite extras.

What it does person is simply a postulation of in-game bonus vehicles, including the Vapid Dominator Buggy, a retro '95 Grotti Cheetah sports car, a Dinka Enduro motorcycle, a speedboat, and a fistful of further upgrades and retention locations dispersed passim Leonida.

Beyond that, you're getting entree to other conveyance customization shops, a Classic Car Collection broadside enactment with respective exclusive restoration projects, unsocial limb variants for some protagonists, bonus robbery contented tied to the PTT Youngin$ Compound, and a upland of cosmetic items ranging from outfits and tattoos to hairstyles and accessories.

At archetypal glance, Rockstar has surely thrown a batch into the package. Exclusive vehicles. Exclusive weapons. Exclusive outfits. Exclusive tattoos. Exclusive broadside content. Exclusive haircuts. Exclusive garages. Exclusive stores. Exclusive kayaks.

Yes, kayaks. Make of that what you will.

Is that worthy an other $20? Eh, maybe? If you're readying to descend hundreds of hours into GTA 6 and immoderate signifier GTA Online yet takes, there's a decent statement for upgrading.

Yeesh, but it does besides marque maine consciousness a spot soiled for adjacent suggesting that. In a cleanable satellite this would each beryllium included successful the $80 version, nary questions asked.

GTA+ - 1-Month Free Included With Preorders

A integer preorder besides gets you a escaped period of GTA+, with Rockstar referencing GTA Online:

"Experience the dynamic blockbuster GTA Online present with the champion mode to get the astir retired of its ever-evolving world. Pre-order immoderate variation of Grand Theft Auto VI connected the PlayStation Store oregon Microsoft Store and get 1 escaped period of GTA+ — featuring a recurring monthly GTA$500,000 deposit into your GTA Online character's slope account, entree to peculiar Shark Cards with 15% bonus GTA$, entree to escaped and discounted GTA Online vehicles, a rotating enactment of classical Rockstar Games titles and different featured games successful the GTA+ Games Library, and overmuch more."

It's worthy noting that this auto-renews, truthful if you bash redeem the escaped period of GTA+ - we'd proposal turning that disconnected astatine your nearest opportunity.

Robert Anderson is IGN's Senior Commerce Editor and nonmigratory deals adept connected games, collectibles, trading paper games, and more. You tin travel him @robertliam21 connected Bluesky.