{"id":53425,"date":"2026-05-18T21:32:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=53425"},"modified":"2026-05-18T21:32:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:32:35","slug":"no-it-doesnt-look-like-gta-6-pre-orders-go-live-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=53425","title":{"rendered":"No, It Doesn&#8217;t Look Like GTA 6 Pre-Orders Go Live Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">GTA 6 pre-orders were rumored to go live today, May 18, but it looks like those reports were inaccurate.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Last week, <u>GTA 6<\/u> fans lost their collective mind after reports emerged that Best Buy had potentially leaked the game\u2019s pre-order date. <u>During a livestream<\/u>, YouTuber Frogboyx1gaming appeared to receive an email from Best Buy to his affiliate account signalling a pre-order campaign for GTA 6 that would run from May 18-21. The suggestion was that GTA 6 pre-orders would go live on May 18, potentially alongside GTA 6 Trailer 3.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">IGN had asked Best Buy for comment but received no response. Still, there was plenty of doubt cast on the rumor, and, as we pointed out last week, we\u2019d <u>been here before<\/u>, <u>many times<\/u>. Some GTA 6 fans actually believed in a Trailer 3 release date prediction that came from someone who <u>charted the planetary positions for every single Rockstar Games trailer released since 2007<\/u>. That turned out to be inaccurate, too.<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\" data-cy=\"article-slideshow\"><button type=\"button\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"jsx-2228525885\"\/><span data-cy=\"slideshow-view-trigger\"><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-preview\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 slideshow-preview\">\n<h3 class=\"title5 jsx-62124236 jsx-1085005187\" data-cy=\"slideshow-preview-title\">GTA 6 Lucia Caminos Screenshots<\/h3>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-container\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" data-cy=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 hero-image\"><img alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2021719738 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"\/><span class=\"button-text jsx-729543028 button button--primary jsx-3381835873 jsx-4266531355 row-pagination-button next contained centered round large\" data-cy=\"paginate next\" title=\"Open Slideshow\"><span class=\"ign-icon right-chevron jsx-2750866048 jsx-2919720488\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-cy=\"right-chevron\" style=\"mask:url(https:\/\/kraken.ignimgs.com\/_next\/static\/media\/RightChevron.272be43c.svg?cors=1) no-repeat center center \/ contain;background:currentColor\"\/><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/output><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Now, the main administrator of GTA Forums has posted to say a verified source at a European distribution company \u201cconfirmed there&#8217;s no pre-orders,\u201d insisting Best Buy had made a mistake.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">As you\u2019d expect, the GTA 6 fan community, already close to breaking point waiting for some sort of announcement or reveal for the game, has gone into meltdown \u2014 and yes, there are a number of angry posts from people who had come to expect pre-orders would go live today, despite the fact there was no official announcement that Rockstar.<\/p>\n<style><![CDATA[.reddit-embed-wrapper iframe { margin-left: 0 !important; }]]><\/style>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">The upshot of all this is that the wait goes on not just for GTA 6 pre-orders to go live, but a fresh look at the game, either in trailer or screenshot form. We still don\u2019t know how much the game will cost. All we have to go on are rather vague comments from Strauss Zelnick, boss of Rockstar parent company Take-Two, who\u2019s talked about GTA 6 marketing kicking off this summer, and the game itself offering incredible value whenever anyone asks him how much GTA 6 will cost.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Certainly, the wait for a new GTA 6 reveal has gone on longer than anyone expected. It\u2019s been over a year since Trailer 2 came out. Trailer 1 came out three years ago, in 2023. Meanwhile, GTA 6 itself has suffered two official delays, first to May 2026 after it was penciled in for fall 2025, then to November 2026. In a new interview, Zelnick suggested GTA 6 was internally targeting an even earlier release window \u2014 around spring 2025 \u2014 before it was announced for fall 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">GTA 6 is significantly behind schedule, then, but Zelnick has gone on the record to say he\u2019s keen to give developer Rockstar everything it needs to achieve \u201cperfection.\u201d And there is of course pressure on the game to deliver just that and break every sales record going.<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\" data-cy=\"article-video\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Earlier this month, <u>Business Insider<\/u> reported that Take-Two is estimated to have spent $1-1.5 billion so far on GTA 6. In an interview with the publication, Zelnick wouldn\u2019t say how much exactly, but did admit \u201cit was expensive.\u201d To put GTA 6 into context, most of the triple-A video game budgets that make headlines do so for being in the hundreds of millions of dollars range. <u>Bungie&#8217;s recently released extraction shooter reportedly had a budget of over $250 million<\/u>, for example. Last year, <u>the astronomical development budgets of the Call of Duty games were revealed for the first time<\/u> after a court document confirmed Activision pumped $700 million into <u>Black Ops Cold War<\/u> alone, although that was over the shooter&#8217;s life cycle. GTA 6, clearly, surpasses them all.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">At least Zelnick sounds really, really confident that GTA 6 won&#8217;t be delayed yet again and will actually come out on November 19. When he was asked how he deals with not knowing when the game will come out, given his commitment to giving the developers all the time they need, he replied, firmly: &#8220;November 19th, I do know. It\u2019s been announced.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">We&#8217;re now just six months from that date.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/gta-6-pre-order-rumor-looks-like-a-bust\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GTA 6 pre-orders were rumored to go live today, May 18, but it looks like those reports were inaccurate. 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