How Much Is GTA 6? Every GTA Launch Price in 2026 Dollars

Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA 6) costs $79.99 for the Standard Edition in the US, on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Take-Two published the price on 24 June 2026, and the PlayStation Store and Microsoft Store US pages showed it again on 13 November 2026, six days before the 19 November launch.

These are US prices. Take-Two's release does not name a country, and we did not verify a price for any other market, so none is given here.

The physical version is a box with a download code, not a disc, according to Take-Two and the Rockstar Store page. No PC version has been announced: Take-Two's release and Rockstar's GTA VI page name only PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, which is not the same as saying one will never come.

Pre-orders on both editions carry the Vintage Vice City Pack, which adds a 55 Vapid Stanier sedan with a garage, outfits and hairstyles and an exclusive weapon pattern. Digital pre-orders also include one month of GTA+.

The GTA 6 Ultimate Edition costs $99.99, exactly $20 above Standard. The PlayStation Store lists 11 extra items and five destinations that only Ultimate owners can use. Rockstar sums it up as "premium vehicles, weapons, apparel, and action".

The items include a 95 Grotti Cheetah, the Hawk and Little Morgan revolvers, Vice City style outfits and tattoos, a Shitzu Squalo boat and a Classic Car Collection. The destinations are Rideout Customs, Sara's Unisex Salon, Stock 305 and One-Eyed Willie's, plus Electric Fang Tattoo, which offers over 50 tattoos.

The $20 is also sold on its own. The Microsoft Store lists an Ultimate Edition Upgrade at $20.00 for Standard owners, and on 9 November 2026 Take-Two's CFO said the add-on content "can be also purchased separately". Take-Two counts it as recurrent consumer spending.

Earlier special editions priced their extras differently. The GTA V Special Edition cost $79.99 in 2013, now $115.30 in October 2026 dollars, and its Collector's Edition $149.99, now $216.20. The GTA IV Special Edition was announced at $89.99 in 2007, which is $141.38 at April 2008 prices.

Those boxes held physical goods, such as a SteelBook and a map for GTA V and an art book and duffel bag for GTA IV. The Ultimate Edition holds none, so these are unlike bundles. The $89.99 is the 2007 announcement figure, and we read no statement that it held after the game slipped to 29 April 2008.

The PlayStation 2 trilogy launched at $49.99 each in the US: GTA III in October 2001, Vice City in October 2002 and San Andreas in October 2004. In October 2026 dollars that same $49.99 is $94.95, $93.06 and $88.38. The sticker never moved, so the real price slid about 7% over three years.

GTA IV lifted the sticker to $59.99 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in April 2008, a $10 step that more than cancelled the slide and came to $94.25 in today's money, almost level with GTA III. GTA V kept $59.99 in September 2013, and with prices rising around it the real figure settled at $86.47.

GTA 6 takes the sticker up by $20 to $79.99, double the $10 step that took GTA IV to $59.99. Against that history it is 7.5% below GTA V, 15.8% below GTA III, 15.1% below GTA IV, 14.0% below Vice City and 9.5% below San Andreas, all in October 2026 dollars.

Between September 2013 and October 2026 the CPI-U went from 234.149 to 337.511, a rise of 44.1%. The GTA V sticker went from $59.99 to $79.99, a rise of 33.3%. A price that grows more slowly than the index is cheaper in real money, so $79.99 sits below the $86.47 that GTA V's launch price is now worth.

The gap is wider from GTA III. The index stood at 177.7 in October 2001, so prices overall rose 89.9% to October 2026 against a sticker rise of 60.0% from $49.99.

Take-Two's CEO made the same argument on the 7 August 2026 earnings call. Zelnick said "the real cost of a AAA video game is a whole lot lower today than it was 20 years ago. Pricing has not kept pace with inflation," according to a Motley Fool transcript. The BLS arithmetic bears out the second sentence for this franchise. The first is a claim about production cost, which is his and which this data does not test.

The index is the CPI-U, US city average, all items, not seasonally adjusted. It is general inflation, not a video game price index, so "cheaper in real money" means cheaper against prices overall, not that games got cheaper.

Only GTA 6's price comes from the publisher: Take-Two's 24 June 2026 release states it and the store pages confirm it. We found no publisher document giving a standard price for any earlier game. Take-Two's release notices for GTA IV and GTA V carry dates and no prices.

GTA III, IV and V rest on the compiled price list Gameflation, and each has a press line that agrees: Kotaku calls III a "$50 price tag", an Associated Press review gives IV a "$59.99 price tag" and WorthPlaying puts V at an "MSRP of $59.99". Vice City and San Andreas rest on Gameflation alone.

The 1990s prices are weaker. GTA's $50 is the street price in the April 1998 PC Games spec box and GTA 2's $40 is in the header of Computer Gaming World's February 2000 review. Both are US magazine prices as printed, not publisher prices. PlayStation retailer lists of the time sit close: $49.99 for GTA and $39.99 to $42.99 for GTA 2.

A compiled price list, Gameflation, shows $29.99 for both games. We found no contemporary US source that agrees, and at that price both would sit below GTA 6 in today's money.

That leaves GTA 2 as the close call. $40 in October 1999 is $80.26 in October 2026 dollars, 27 cents above GTA 6, so the two are level. Change the base month and the order moves: in June 2026 dollars the same $40 is $79.42, just under $79.99. On this evidence nobody can call GTA 6 the cheapest GTA.

Everything here is a US launch price on one lead platform. The two oldest games launched on PC and PlayStation, and the table uses the PC prices. Other countries are not covered, because we did not verify a price outside the US.

The box is not the whole cost. GTA 6 needs a PS5 or an Xbox Series X|S, and the console is not in these prices. Nor is spending after the sale, such as GTA+ beyond the free month or add-ons bought later.

The GTA 6 figure is provisional too. It is taken as already in current dollars because the November index is out on 10 December 2026. Treat $79.99 as a June 2026 price, the month Take-Two announced it, and it becomes $80.84 in October 2026 dollars. That changes no order against III to V, but it would put GTA 2's $80.26 just below it.

So the summary has two halves. The box price is the highest the series has charged, and in October 2026 dollars the first GTA, III, Vice City, San Andreas, IV and V all cost more, with GTA 2 level. The November CPI is the next check on the second half.