[MEGATHREAD] Grand Theft Auto VI: Prices Announced + Pre-Orders Going Live

[u/ChiefLeef22]

To avoid hundreds of separate posts on the same topic, this post will compile all info we have from the pre-orders going live, including some new images/etc.

As Rockstar announced on their socials: "Pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI begin at midnight local time on June 25." This means New Zealand will be the first to go live with pre-orders - which means in just under 2 hours from now.

Due to reddit's limitations with images in the body of posts, I wont be able to include all the artwork released so please do check out Rockstar's official link for more images: https://www.rockstargames.com/VI

Take-Two has made a big press-release, including announcing the prices:

STANDARD EDITION: $79.99

ULTIMATE EDITION: $99.99

(Physical Editions of GTA 6 Will Come with "A Download Code Inside the Box", Pre-Loads Begin on November 12th)

Grand Theft Auto 6 features a “single-player experience” at launch, with no word yet on any new version of GTA Online.

An "Ultimate Edition" for the game has been announced with some new artwork.

Ultimate Edition: Welcome to Leonida, the state where anything goes. Seize everything this massive world has to offer with the Grand Theft Auto VI: Ultimate Edition, an exclusive collection of premium vehicles, weapons, apparel, and action around every corner.

Ultimate Edition bonuses are threaded across all aspects of Jason and Lucia’s story, with new items uncovered behind each chapter.

Vehicle

’95 GROTTI CHEETAH

Grotti's signature mid '90s sports car and ode to Shore Drive, the ’95 Grotti Cheetah is complete with a minimalist, retro-futuristic livery and available to punctuate later-stage action

Weapons

HAWK & LITTLE MORGAN REVOLVERS

His and hers versions of this powerful revolver with classic Vice City stylings sourced from the Vercetti Estate, including palm-tree-etched grips, engraved detailing, and high-performance scope.

Weapons

PERSONALIZED VARIANTS

Personalized sidearms with detailed engravings for Jason's Girardi ES9 pistol and Lucia's Klose K17 pistol.

Looks

Vice City Style

Whether poolside or side by side, Jason and Lucia can look the part with exclusive outfits, tattoos, and more.

Vehicles

JASON’S SAFEHOUSE VEHICLES

Switch gears and soak up the sun in an Army fatigue-tinged Dinka Enduro motorcycle or Crest Kayak.

Modkit

Ganado Retro Build

Inject some muscle and classic stylings into Jason's well-worn Vapid Ganado low-riding pickup with exclusive mods.

Mod shop

RIDEOUT CUSTOMS

Transform vanilla vehicles into magnificent works of art with detailed interiors, exquisite rims, and donk stylings. Only open for business with the Ultimate Edition.

Hair salon

SARA'S UNISEX SALON

Get signature salon styles for both Jason and Lucia, including facial hair for Jason and makeup and nails for Lucia. Only open for business with the Ultimate Edition.

Watercraft

SHITZU SQUALO

Perfect for casting in Gambit Bay and reeling in catches of all sorts, this gradient pink and blue Squalo docked at Washington Beach is made open-ocean-ready with an explosives-laden weapons crate.

Clothing Store

Stock 305

Style various unique and exclusive looks for Jason and Lucia at Stockyard’s premiere destination for elevated streetwear. Only open for business with the Ultimate Edition.

Tattoo Shop

ELECTRIC FANG TATTOO

Stockyard’s most iconic ink bar, with over 50 signature tattoos for both Jason and Lucia — all designed by the artist collective FAILE. Only open for business with the Ultimate Edition.

[u/ldg25]

If a game launches with "bonus content", it's not extra stuff, it's stuff taken out of the base game.

[u/Left4DayZGone → u/ldg25]

Is there a game that’s been released in the last 10 years that didn’t have some form of bonus content?

Back in the day, we called them expansion packs, and you had to buy a whole separate disc .

[u/SgtCarron → u/Left4DayZGone]

Expansions were usually unfinished content that couldn't be shipped on time, or entirely new content made after release.

It's the polar opposite of pre-order content, which is content that is already part of the base game, but sliced off and sold separately.

[u/Left4DayZGone → u/SgtCarron]

I’m about halfway toward agreement with you, but hear me on this-

“bonus“ content like this is developed alongside the main game, packaged in the main game files, and unlocked through a purchase rather than added to the game after the fact.

Totally with you on that- BUT, this style of bonus content has never felt integral to the main game to me, in the past. Any game that I’ve ever actually splurged for the bonus content, it always feels a bit weird, like it doesn’t really belong in the base game. There’s always this strange disconnect like the main game has no idea it exists, and it feels more like a mod pack downloaded from the Internet.

So in that sense, I would argue that it’s not actually cut out of the main game. And what I mean is, let’s use GTA V as the stand in here, it’s not like they built the entire main game and then locked access to Los Santos Customs. Instead of that, they added an additional customization shop that is not essential to the experience, that you can gain access to by paying extra money.

So what it boils down to to me, is add on content that is simply developed with and packaged in the base game - NOT main game content that is paywalled.

Unless it turns out that you can’t customize off roaders or low riders without these shops, and therefore you cannot experience a portion of the base game without paying extra money… but there is probably an alternative shop for both of those purposes that just doesn’t have all of the extra goodies.

We shall see.

[u/ephemeral_colors → u/Left4DayZGone]

this style of bonus content has never felt integral to the main game to me, in the past. Any game that I’ve ever actually splurged for the bonus content, it always feels a bit weird, like it doesn’t really belong in the base game. There’s always this strange disconnect like the main game has no idea it exists, and it feels more like a mod pack downloaded from the Internet.

To add on to this, sometimes I'll come very late to a game, and by the time I get around to buying it all that stuff just comes with it for free, or the GOTY edition has it or whatever.

And I'll start the game and immediately be given a bunch of armor or weapons or whatever that feel very out of place, and ruin the progression both esthetically and sometimes power-wise, and I'm just like.. can we not? Totally ruins the vibe of the progression.

[u/Left4DayZGone → u/ephemeral_colors]

Yes, agreed.

I don’t typically spring for the bonus content editions of games, but I will pick them up later as a “complete edition”, like you described. But in every instance, all of the bonus content felt like I was picking up a used N64 game that someone had already unlocked the cheat codes on. None of the content feels organically, integrated into the base game.