GTA 6 gets '2026 release date' update that will impact millions

Another week, another Grand Theft Auto VI update that has seemingly been leaked by those inside the gaming industry itself.

GTA 6 is currently expected to hit shelves later this year, with the video game's parent company Take-Two Interactive confirming an autumn 2025 release window earlier this month.

It is the second time in a matter of months that autumn has been confirmed as the time to expect a GTA VI release, which if anything shows that the game's production is ticking along nicely with no major hiccups putting production back and delaying when punters will be able to buy the product.

Speaking in early February, Take-Two confirmed fall 2025 for the release to console. We're talking the Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.

For those with a PS4 and Xbox One, or Nintendo Switch or its soon to be released successor, hard luck. Those consoles aren't getting a sniff of the new product.

And in a frustrating, but not new, move for millions more gamers, those who play on PC wont be enjoying GTA 6 in the same time frame as PS5 owners.

All is not lost, though. And if anything, the hope for PC gamers has been increased following a recent revelation from one gaming insider.

Previously, GTA 5 was released around 18 months after the game landed on PS4 and Xbox 360.

Good news for GTA 6 gamers wanting to play it on PC (Rockstar)

That first landed on shelves in September 2013, followed by a port to PS4 and Xbox One in November 2014. Only in April 2015 did it finally go on to PC.

Well, it appears the wait wont be anywhere near as long when it comes to GTA 6.

That is according to the vice president of Corsair Gaming, a gaming brand and company based in California that creates gaming specific PC equipment such as the computers themselves, headsets, keyboards, and gaming chairs and desks.

Speaking about Corsair Gaming's latest financial results, VP Ronald van Veen let slip when he expects a PC version of the game to be released.

"Yeah, GTA 6 is probably the one everyone is talking about," Van Veen said.

It'll land on PC in early 2026, one insider says (Rockstar)

"And we’ll get a glimpse of that, I think, later on in the year for console. My understanding now it’s going to come out in the fall for console, and then early 2026 for PC."

Early 2026 will be music to the ears of PC gamers everywhere.

It comes after console gamers were given a 'mapped out' release of when GTA 6 will come to PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, with September now seemingly a write off due to the release of fellow Take-Two video game, Borderlands 4.

And with the company saying it will not take part in cannibalisation - whereby one product competes directly another of its own - fans think a release date from late October to the first week of December is now most likely.