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Is GTA 6 coming to PC? What Rockstar and Take-Two have said

There is no Grand Theft Auto VI PC release date. Not a provisional one, not a window, not a year. Rockstar has never published one, and the company has also never said there will not be a PC version. Both halves of that matter, and most of what you will read about this subject quietly drops one of them.

What does exist is a clear, dated, first-party record of the platforms this game is coming to. It is narrower than you might expect and more interesting than it sounds, because the two companies involved spell out “PC” for other titles in the same documents where they leave it off this one. That is worth reading carefully. It is still not a date, and it is still not a denial.

The published platform record, in full

Rockstar names two platforms for this game and has done so consistently since the announcement.

The reveal, in December 2023, named PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S and gave the year as 2025. When pre-orders opened in June 2026, the wording was more exact and the platforms were the same: “Launching November 19, 2026, for the PlayStation® 5 computer entertainment systems and Xbox Series X|S games and entertainment systems for $79.99”. Rockstar’s own Grand Theft Auto VI site carries the two console logos and nothing else, and its store page offers exactly two platform choices, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.

The console storefronts agree and add nothing. PlayStation’s product listing prints a single platform row reading “PS5”. Microsoft’s lists the game for Xbox Series X|S and describes it as “Optimized for Xbox Series X|S”. Neither carries a PC entry, a Windows entry or a second product for one.

So the positive claim is easy and safe: every platform statement either company has published about this game names two consoles. The interesting part is what sits beside those statements.

Take-Two writes “PC” for other games in the same table

Take-Two Interactive, which owns Rockstar, publishes a release slate inside its quarterly results. It is a four-column table: label, product, platforms, release date. It is the closest thing to an official platform list this game has.

In the most recent one, published on 7 August 2026, the Grand Theft Auto VI row reads “PS5, Xbox Series X|S”. The row directly above it, NBA 2K27, reads “PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch 2, PC”. Further down the same table, Judas reads “PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC”. And in the table immediately above, of titles already released, a Grand Theft Auto Online update reads “PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC”.

That row has read “PS5, Xbox Series X|S” in every quarterly results release we checked, going back through November 2025, February 2026, May 2026 and August 2026. Four consecutive quarters, the same two platforms, in a table that uses the word “PC” freely elsewhere.

It would be easy to over-read this. A slate table lists what has been announced, and the heading above it says so in as many words: “Take-Two’s future lineup announced to-date includes”. An unannounced version is absent from an announced-titles list by definition, which is exactly what you would expect whether a PC version exists in a studio somewhere or not. The table tells you Take-Two has not announced one. It cannot tell you more than that.

What it does rule out is one specific bad argument. People sometimes suggest the console-only framing is a formality, or that PC is assumed and simply goes unmentioned. It is not assumed. Take-Two reports its revenue in three platform buckets, one of which is PC, and its annual report says the company’s products “are currently designed for console gaming systems, mobile, including smartphones and tablets, and personal computer”. The same document notes that Take-Two needs licences from Sony and Microsoft to publish on their hardware and that “We are not required to obtain any licenses from hardware manufacturers to develop titles for the PC”. PC is a live, named, material part of how this company describes and measures itself. Leaving it off one row is a choice, not an oversight.

One smaller thing in the same annual report is worth knowing, because it cuts the other way. Take-Two mentions Grand Theft Auto VI three times and names no platform in any of the three. It gives the date and nothing else. The platform list lives only in the press releases and the slate table, never in the filings.

Rockstar’s own shop sells PC versions of seven other games

This is the comparison we found most useful, because it holds everything else constant.

Rockstar runs its own store, and it sells PC versions of its back catalogue there. Red Dead Redemption 2, Red Dead Redemption, Grand Theft Auto V, Grand Theft Auto IV, L.A. Noire, Max Payne 3 and the Grand Theft Auto Trilogy all have PC editions on it. Three of those pages put the word PC in the page title. Each one carries a System Requirements section naming an operating system and the hardware the game needs, and Red Dead Redemption 2’s lists an operating system, a processor, memory, a graphics card and a disk figure.

The Grand Theft Auto VI page on the same store has no PC edition, no PC option in its platform picker and no system requirements section of any kind. Same company, same storefront, same software. Seven of its other game pages carry a PC version and this one does not.

Away from Rockstar’s own shop the picture is the same. The game is not on Steam: Rockstar’s publisher page there lists thirteen titles, including Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced, Grand Theft Auto IV and the three Definitive Editions, and Grand Theft Auto VI is not among them. A Steam search for it returns Grand Theft Auto V, Grand Theft Auto IV and the Definitive Editions, then unrelated games with similar names. Microsoft’s PC store does not host it either: ask it for this game and it sends you to the Xbox listing.

Why nobody can give you a date, including the people guessing

Here is where most coverage of this question goes wrong. The reasoning usually runs: Rockstar always brings its games to PC eventually, GTA V took about eighteen months, so expect GTA 6 on PC around mid-2028.

The first clause is reasonable. The second is cherry-picked, and the arithmetic falls apart the moment you look at more than one game. These are Rockstar’s own published dates, taken from its announcements and its store listings:

Game Console release PC release Gap
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy, Definitive Edition 11 November 2021 11 November 2021 same day
Grand Theft Auto V 17 September 2013, PS3 and Xbox 360 14 April 2015 about 19 months
Grand Theft Auto V 18 November 2014, PS4 and Xbox One 14 April 2015 about 5 months
Red Dead Redemption 2 26 October 2018 5 November 2019 about 12 months
Red Dead Redemption May 2010 29 October 2024 about 14 years

Same day at one end, fourteen years at the other. There is no pattern there to extrapolate from, and any single figure drawn out of that spread is a choice about which game to count.

The Grand Theft Auto V row has a detail inside it that is better than the average. Its PC version arrived on 14 April 2015. Its PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X versions arrived on 15 March 2022. So for the game people cite as the precedent, PC came nearly seven years before the console generation GTA 6 is launching on. The idea that PC always comes later is not even reliably true of the one case the prediction rests on.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is the recent title most like this one. Its console version came on 26 October 2018. Rockstar announced its PC version in a post of its own, dated 4 October 2019, saying the game was “coming to PC on November 5th”, with pre-purchase opening “October 9th”. That puts the PC release on 5 November 2019, a little over a year after the console one, which sits inside the spread above rather than settling it.

When Rockstar does announce PC, the first announcement has no date in it

The other reason to distrust a predicted date is that Rockstar’s own first word on a PC version has not always been a date either.

Grand Theft Auto V is the instructive case. Its PC version was not announced on its own. It arrived inside a post about new console ports, headlined “Grand Theft Auto V Coming this Fall to PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC”, with a season attached and no day. The date that followed, 27 January 2015, then moved twice. Rockstar’s own words on the first of those moves: “we would like to share the first screens and system specs of Grand Theft Auto V for PC as well as a new release date of March 24, 2015. Our apologies for the slight shift in the date but the game requires a few extra weeks”. It moved again after that, to 14 April.

Red Dead Redemption 2 and the 2024 Red Dead Redemption PC release were handled the other way, each getting a dedicated post with a firm day in the headline. So Rockstar has done it both ways, and the only safe generalisation is that you will know when Rockstar says so.

What is actually unknown

Being specific about the gaps is the point of a page like this.

Whether a PC version exists, in development or in planning, is unknown. Rockstar has not said yes and has not said no. There is no published denial anywhere, which is a different thing from a confirmation and is routinely reported as if it were one.

Whether a PC version would be announced before launch, at launch or long after is unknown, and the history above shows Rockstar has done all three.

We have also not established the position on the Epic Games Store, so treat this page’s storefront sweep as covering Rockstar’s own shop, Steam, the PlayStation Store and Microsoft’s two stores rather than every shop that exists.

And one thing is worth saying plainly because it comes up constantly: nothing on this page is evidence about the game’s technical requirements on a PC. No system requirements have been published for this game on any platform, and the install size is unpublished too, which is the same gap our Xbox Series S piece runs into from the console side.

What would change this, and the next date worth watching

One thing would settle it: Rockstar saying so. That is how every previous PC version was announced, and no leak, retailer listing or storefront placeholder has ever been the first word on one.

Short of that, there is a scheduled moment when the slate table above gets republished. Take-Two reports its second-quarter results on 9 November 2026, ten days before this game ships, and we have written up the date and what it is. A platform list that has read the same thing for four quarters either reads the same thing a fifth time or it does not. That is a small, checkable event rather than a rumour, and it is the only one on the calendar.

Until then, the honest answer on a PC version is that nobody outside Rockstar knows, the companies involved have named two consoles and declined to name a third, and anyone handing you a date is handing you a guess. We publish what a primary source supports, which on this question means a short page rather than a confident one. If you are buying this game in November, our editions and pre-order guide covers the two platforms it is actually releasing on, and the multiplayer question is the other absence worth understanding before launch.

Sources

Every one of these was opened first-hand on 19 October 2026.