{"id":85718,"date":"2026-07-10T12:42:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85718"},"modified":"2026-07-10T13:36:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:36:38","slug":"gta-6-preloading-start-date-and-what-to-know-about-digital-and-physical-copies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85718","title":{"rendered":"GTA 6 Preloading: Start Date And What To Know About Digital And Physical Copies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After years of development and multiple delays, Rockstar&#8217;s Grand Theft Auto 6 is finally launching on November 19, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/prewrite-preorders-are-live-for-grand-theft-auto-vi\/1100-6539953\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/prewrite-preorders-are-live-for-grand-theft-auto-vi\/1100-6539953\/\">you can now actually preorder the game<\/a>. The $80 game arrives on November 19, but you can actually preload it a week earlier, which is nice for the countless people who no doubt want to begin playing <em>the second <\/em>they can. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s everything you need to know about GTA 6 preloading.<\/p>\n<p> GTA 6 preload schedule <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GTA 6 players who preorder a digital copy of GTA 6 can begin preloading on November 12. This is to &#8220;ensure they are able to play at launch,&#8221; Rockstar said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GTA 6 is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gta-6-is-not-releasing-with-a-disc-and-that-just-makes-sense-in-2026\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gta-6-is-not-releasing-with-a-disc-and-that-just-makes-sense-in-2026\/\">not going to be released on a disc<\/a>, but Rockstar is still selling physical copies of the game at retailers with a code in the box. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The game&#8217;s physical edition will be available to buy on November 12 &#8220;to support preloading,&#8221; Rockstar said. So if you walk into a GameStop or Walmart on November 12 and see a copy of GTA 6 on the shelves to buy, you can do so, but the game itself won&#8217;t unlock until November 19.<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">&lt;img data-ref-id=&quot;1816740&quot; data-wp-on&#8211;click=&quot;actions.core.image.showLightbox&quot; style=&quot;cursor: zoom-in&quot; height=&quot;569&quot; width=&quot;1024&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-10-at-11.40.32-AM.png?w=1024&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of development and multiple delays, Rockstar&#8217;s Grand Theft Auto 6 is finally launching on November 19, and you can now actually preorder the game. The $80 game arrives on November 19, but you can actually preload it a week earlier, which is nice for the countless people who no doubt want to begin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":85720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85721,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85718\/revisions\/85721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}