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GTA VI unlocks at midnight local time on Thursday, November 19.

GTA VI costs US$79.99. Here's what the Ultimate Edition adds

Two editions, one pre-order bonus, and a US$399.99 box that doesn't include the game.

By Officer Scarn 3 min read

Rockstar's official image of a white Grotti Cheetah sports car with red stripes, parked outside a curved pink tower at sunset. Image: Rockstar Games.

GTA VI's Standard Edition costs US$79.99 and the Ultimate Edition US$99.99 in the US, on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Here's what the PlayStation Store and Xbox Store list elsewhere:

Market Standard Ultimate
United States US$79.99 US$99.99
Canada C$109.99 C$139.99
United Kingdom £69.99 £89.99
Eurozone €79.99 €99.99
Australia A$129.95 A$159.95
Japan ¥9,800 ¥12,280
Brazil R$449.90 R$549.90
India ₹5,999 ₹7,499
Mexico (Xbox Store) MXN 1,499 MXN 1,879

Both stores list the same prices in every market above except Mexico, where we show the Xbox Store's. US and Canadian prices are before sales tax. MobileSyrup and iPhone in Canada reported the Canadian prices when pre-orders opened on June 25. The euro price was the same in every eurozone store we checked.

So Ultimate is a US$20 step up in the US, C$30 in Canada and £20 or €20 in Europe.

Standard Edition

This is the full game, sold digitally or as a code in a box. The boxed version holds a download code, not a disc. It reaches stores on Thursday, November 12, a week before launch, so you can still pre-load.

The pre-order bonus

Pre-orders come with the Vintage Vice City Pack: a two-tone '55 Vapid Stanier sedan, a garage by Ocean Beach, retro outfits and hairstyles for Jason and Lucia, and a weapon pattern based on Tommy Vercetti's palm-tree shirt.

Rockstar's site lists the pack with the Standard Edition, and Shacknews says any pre-order gets it. MobileSyrup describes it as an Ultimate bonus instead. We're going with Rockstar's own listing. We couldn't find a cut-off date from Rockstar.

What Ultimate adds

Rockstar calls it "an exclusive collection of premium vehicles, weapons, apparel, and action around every corner." You don't get it all on day one. The items are "threaded across all aspects of Jason and Lucia's story, with new items uncovered behind each chapter."

From Rockstar's listing:

  • Vehicles: a '95 Grotti Cheetah, a '67 Vapid Dominator Buggy you keep at the Paradise Garage in Watson Bay, a Squalo boat with an explosives-laden weapons crate, a Dinka Enduro motorcycle or a kayak, and mods for Jason's Vapid Ganado pickup.
  • Weapons: his-and-hers revolvers, plus engraved versions of Jason's and Lucia's pistols.
  • Shops only Ultimate owners can use: a tattoo parlour in Stockyard with more than 50 designs by the artist collective FAILE, a salon, a streetwear store and a mod shop on Lake Leonida.
  • Extra activities: a raid on a Southside Vice City gang's compound, and project cars for a collector and fixer named Wyman.
  • Clothing: a capsule collection themed on Macca the Gator, a TV show in the game.

Both editions have the full game. The extra US$20 goes on cars, guns, clothes and side content. If you only care about the story, Standard covers it.

The collector's box

The Goodtime State Vice City Collection is merchandise, and the game is sold separately. It has 11 items, among them a Macca the Gator figure, Oakley Frogskins sunglasses, a crossbody bag, a New Era snapback, an enamel pin set and a double-sided poster. It ships from November 19.

Market Price Sold by
United States US$399.99 Rockstar Store
Canada C$559.99 Rockstar Store
United Kingdom £349.99 Rockstar Store
Germany, France €399.99 Rockstar Store
Japan ¥99,980 e-Capcom only

The Rockstar Store ships to 23 countries in North America and Europe. We read the Canadian price on the store itself; the others come from VGC, Vice, Push Square, PC Games Hardware and iPhonesoft, and from Capcom's e-Capcom shop in Japan, where it was out of stock on November 10. We found no official seller in Australia, Brazil, India or Mexico.

Rockstar's official image of the closed collector's box: a black box with the Vice City Leonida logo on its lid and a VI emblem on the front, on a pink background. Image: Rockstar Games.
Image: Rockstar Games

Anything else to pay for

Tech Times reports that Rockstar North's Rob Nelson said there is "no monetization" in GTA VI, a comment it says applied to the single-player campaign, and that Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick confirmed no launch monetization was planned. The ESRB listing still carries an "In-Game Purchases" label, and Rockstar hasn't said what it covers.

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