The Grand Theft Auto 6 pre-orders are now live at Amazon, Walmart, GameStop and elsewhere, as you might already know if you stayed up with us for the midnight launch. But if you’re bitter about Rockstar’s decision to launch the “physical” version with just a download code in the box, the same insider that leaked the digital launch ahead of time is now claiming a disc version of Grand Theft Auto 6 is coming later this year.
Rockstar officially announced the $80 starting price and the contentious $100 Deluxe edition with paywalled in-game content (skins, actual cosmetic, vehicle mod, and weapon shops, as well as some side missions and more) yesterday ahead of the now live pre-orders.
- Grand Theft Auto 6 pre-orders are now live at Amazon on PS5 and Xbox.
- Grand Theft Auto 6 pre-orders are now live at Walmart on PS5 and Xbox.
- Grand Theft Auto 6 pre-orders are now live at GameStop on PS5 or Xbox.
It also announced the physical version is just a code-in box with no physical disc present. This was presumably to prevent folks from looting one at retail and streaming the game online early – the code-in-a-box version can be pre-loaded on November 12 and won’t actually run until November 19.
Or that’s, at least, what European gaming insider Graczdari claimed after correctly predicting/leaking Rockstar’s physical-meets-digital launch decision well ahead of anyone else. Graczdari has reliably leaked plenty of notable gaming releases over the last year it would appear, and is now claiming a physical edition, a proper physical edition with an actual disc, is releasing in December.
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Now, it should be noted that it is somewhat unclear whether or not this gaming insider was actually leaking a purely digital only from digital storefronts launch or one with a code in a box, but the recent official pre-order launch does substantiate the early details to some degree.
Rockstar’s bosses at Take-Two have already stated, in not so definitive terms, that it will not be releasing a physical version of Grand Theft Auto 6 after the November release. When asked if the company was planning to delay the disc copy until after else, the Take-Two head boss man, Strauss Zelnick, said “that’s not the plan”. We’ll see Strauss, we’ll see.
Either way, some folks are going to rage, be it that they didn’t get the disc version in the first place or that Take-Two is trying to milk double sales from uber fans that will pay whatever they have to play GTA VI as soon as possible and buy a disc copy for Christmas.
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