Since Rockstar Games announced that Grand Theft Auto 6 pre-orders are going to start on June 25th, some fans have discovered strange store listings that could be related to the title on French retail website Fnac. These listings are for products named RS1, RS2, RS3, RS4, and RS5, and are all slated to come out on November 19th – the same date as Grand Theft Auto 6. Putting two and two together, many believe these to be the listings for Rockstar’s much-awaited game across PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.
However, according to Billbil-kun – a leaker known for their connections in the European retail world – these (since-deleted) listings are just placeholders and that these prices are all random. It is worth noting that the listings’ prices are wildly different, with the lowest-priced one being €89.99 and the highest one being €199.99. While it could be easy to assume that these might be different editions for Grand Theft Auto 6, these prices would still end up making the game one of the most expensive ones in the market today, even just for the base edition.
Billbil-kun also pointed to the fact that the EAN (European Article Number) codes for the listings aren’t the ones Rockstar Games’ parent company Take-Two Interactive typically uses to sell its games. This lends further credence to their claim that these listings are random ones, likely put online by Rockstar Games or Take-Two Interactive to confuse any potential leaks ahead of the pre-orders going live later this week.
“Looks like many people (including Rockstar) are trying to disturb my holidays,” wrote Billbil-kun on social media. “These SKUs are just placeholders because EAN codes (like UPC in the US) don’t belong to Take-Two’s traditional game prefixes. So those prices are random ones.”
As for the actual prices, Billbil-kun has said that they can’t really do much to get more details at the moment, since they are on holiday and don’t have access to their PC.
There has been a fair bit of speculation about the price of Grand Theft Auto 6 for quite some time. While Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick has been non-committal about the subject, saying that “consumers pay for the value that you bring to them, and our job is to charge way way way less of the value delivery,” analysts believe that the company might price the title at a higher point.
Bank of America’s securities stock analyst Omar Dessouky, for instance, believes that Grand Theft Auto 6’s release may play a vital role in breaking the barrier of the current $70 price point.
“We also heard from attendees that the industry, which is perceived as struggling, would have difficulty selling games for $80 if GTA 6 came out at $70,” said Dessouky. “We think it’s in Take-Two’s self-interest, as a publisher and partner to many developers, to raise the price point for the entire industry.”
Similarly, Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter had speculated that the title might be priced at $100 back in March 2025. However, other analysts have noted that such a steep jump in price would go against Rockstar’s goals of getting the game into as many hands as possible.
