{"id":654748,"date":"2026-06-18T16:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=654748"},"modified":"2026-06-18T16:34:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:34:20","slug":"gta-6-pre-order-date-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/654748-gta-6-pre-order-date-announced.html","title":{"rendered":"GTA 6 pre-order date announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Take-Two Interactive Software will open pre-orders for&nbsp;<em>Grand Theft Auto VI<\/em>&nbsp;on June 25, kicking off the launch of one of the most anticipated video games of all time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI will officially begin on June 25 on digital storefronts and at other select retailers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take-Two shares jumped 3.4% after the announcement as the market opened in New York on Thursday. They are down 8.2% this year, compared with a 9.6% gain in the S&amp;P 500 Index.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The start of pre-orders suggests that the open-world video game produced by Take-Two\u2019s Rockstar Games studio won\u2019t be delayed again, and will stick to its 19 November launch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fans have speculated whether the game will be priced above $70 (R1,149).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Grand Theft Auto VI<\/em>&nbsp;is expected to be one of the biggest video games ever. The previous entry in the long-running crime drama series has sold more than 225 million copies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a recent interview, chief executive officer Strauss Zelnick said he was both&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-05-04\/take-two-ceo-says-grand-theft-auto-vi-expectations-are-terrifying\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">excited and terrified<\/a>&nbsp;about the expectations surrounding the game.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The start of pre-orders suggests that the open-world video game produced by Take-Two\u2019s Rockstar Games studio won\u2019t be delayed again, and will stick to its 19 November launch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":654760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[32886,81468,81584,26784,86429,102137],"class_list":["post-654748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-grand-theft-auto-gta","tag-grand-theft-auto-6","tag-gta-6","tag-rockstar-games","tag-take-two","tag-take-two-interactive-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654748"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654757,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654748\/revisions\/654757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}