By Ray Ampoloquio · Oct 13, 2026 GamesBeat's four anonymous industry sources put GTA 6 on PC in Q1 2027, a potential franchise record. Rockstar has not confirmed it.

Grand Theft Auto fans might have something to circle on the calendar early next year because, according to GamesBeat, Rockstar Games plans to release the PC version of Grand Theft Auto VI in the first quarter of 2027. The outlet cites four industry sources familiar with the studio's plans, all speaking anonymously to protect business relationships. A Rockstar representative did not respond to GamesBeat's request for comment.

If the window holds, it would be a fast turnaround by Rockstar's standards. The console version arrives on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S on November 19. A first-quarter 2027 PC release would follow within a few months of that.

For comparison, Grand Theft Auto V reached PC in April 2015 , about a year and seven months after its September 2013 console debut.

Our earlier coverage flagged datamined signs that Rockstar was building a PC version , after files tied to a Grand Theft Auto Online update pointed to PC work. More recently, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick called PC "more and more important" to the company at a shareholder meeting without naming a GTA 6 date. At that same meeting, he confirmed the game ships as a single-player experience at launch, with no online mode and no microtransactions on day one.

The PC question arguably matters more for GTA 6 than it did for past games, because of where the series is heading. Online roleplay runs on PC. re , the team behind the FiveM roleplay framework, in August 2023.

It has since hired more talent to build GTA 6 multiplayer . FiveM runs only on the PC version of GTA V , so every hour of that existing roleplay happens on PC. A GTA 6 PC release is the groundwork any FiveM-style scene would need.

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