Rockstar says GTA 6 meets its expectations

Rockstar North head of development Aaron Garbut told Edge that the studio is aware of the expectations around GTA 6 and believes it has met them. PC Gamer reported the remarks on October 29, 2026, drawn from Edge's inside look at the game in its November 2026 issue, which is on sale from October 29. Garbut said: "We can't just trot out something that's what people might expect, or that was the easy thing to do." He added: "We've not compromised on the scale, the detail, the interactivity, the story, the open world." To describe the scale of the task, he said: "I feel like we've built a pyramid on Everest."

Edge's feature also gave a few measures of the game's size. GamesRadar, citing the same Edge feature, reported that the map is roughly twice the size of GTA V and that its total landmass is nearly as large as the playable maps of GTA IV, GTA V and RDR2 combined. According to Garbut, the game contains "an order of magnitude more interiors" than its predecessors. GamesRadar also reported that Rob Nelson played the current build for 90 minutes without a script during the Edge visit, following his own route rather than a pre-written demonstration.

PC Gamer noted that the company has not announced a PC release date for GTA 6. It said Rockstar usually leaves at least seven months between console and PC versions, and that GTA 5 took a year and a half to reach PC. Those figures are PC Gamer's reading of past releases, not a schedule for this game.