Summary

  • Grand Theft Auto 6 is set in Leonida, a fictional state that includes Vice City and other areas, expanding the game's scope beyond Vice City.
  • The game's release date is confirmed to be in 2025.
  • The initial release of Grand Theft Auto 6 will be on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, with a PC port expected to come at some point later.

Rockstar Games has confirmed that Grand Theft Auto 6 is set in Leonida, a state that is essentially the franchise's take on Florida, expanding its scope far beyond Vice City. Vice City had been rumored for Grand Theft Auto 6 years before the game's announcement. After all, with Grand Theft Auto 4 tackling Liberty City and Grand Theft Auto 5 offering its take on San Andreas, Vice City always seemed like the natural next step.

Grand Theft Auto 6 confirmed Vice City as one of its primary settings with its record-breaking debut trailer. The Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer also confirmed the game's playable characters, graphical improvements, alligators, vehicles, and how Vice City is being updated. However, fans should know that Vice City is really just one part of the greater Grand Theft Auto 6 map, as the game is set in the greater state Leonida.

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A full-fledged Grand Theft Auto 6 map has not been revealed at the time of this writing, but Rockstar has confirmed that the game is actually set in Leonida, a fictional state that includes Vice City and other areas. The official description from Rockstar reads: "Grand Theft Auto 6 heads to the state of Leonida, home to the neon-soaked streets of Vice City and beyond in the biggest, most immersive evolution of the Grand Theft Auto series yet." Exactly how much more of Leonida fans will get to explore remains to be seen, but more information should come to light in the lead-up to the game's eventual 2025 launch.

Grand Theft Auto 6 heads to the state of Leonida, home to the neon-soaked streets of Vice City and beyond in the biggest, most immersive evolution of the Grand Theft Auto series yet.

One of the most important pieces of information for Grand Theft Auto 6 came at the very end of its reveal trailer. While there was some hope that the open world crime game would drop in 2024, it has now been confirmed that the Grand Theft Auto 6 release date will be at some point in 2025. Time will tell if Rockstar meets that date or if the game's launch gets pushed back, but for now, fans can look forward to 2025 as being the year of GTA 6.

In the meantime, the same description that revealed Grand Theft Auto 6's setting to be Leonida and not just Vice City also confirmed that the game is currently aiming for release on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X at launch. This seems to confirm that Grand Theft Auto 6 will skip PC when it's first released, which is par for the course when it comes to Rockstar's games. It remains to be seen how long fans will have to wait for the eventual Grand Theft Auto 6 PC port, but Rockstar's previous titles suggest that it will take at least a year for the game to come to PC.

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Grand Theft Auto 6
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Action
Adventure
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Systems
PlayStation-1 Xbox-1
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Released
November 19, 2026
ESRB
Rating Pending - Likely Mature 17+
Developer(s)
Rockstar Games
Publisher(s)
Rockstar Games
Engine
Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE)
Prequel(s)
Grand Theft Auto 5
Franchise
Grand Theft Auto
Xbox Series X|S Release Date
November 19, 2026
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WHERE TO PLAY

DIGITAL
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Grand Theft Auto VI heads to the state of Leonida, home to the neon-soaked streets of Vice City and beyond in the biggest, most immersive evolution of the Grand Theft Auto series yet.

Jason and Lucia have always known the deck is stacked against them. But when an easy score goes wrong, they find themselves on the darkest side of the sunniest place in America, in the middle of a criminal conspiracy stretching across the state of Leonida — forced to rely on each other more than ever if they want to make it out alive.

Genre(s)
Action, Adventure