Every GTA release date, by platform and region

Most release-date lists give one date per game. Grand Theft Auto has almost never launched on every platform, or in every region, on the same day, and the publisher's own records disagree by days. This page dates every release we could from Rockstar or Take-Two paperwork, names the record behind each date, lists where those records conflict, and works out the gaps between main games up to GTA VI on November 19, 2026.

At a glance

What is counted, and how

Sources, in order of trust. Day-level dates come first from Take-Two's SEC filings (10-K and 10-Q product tables and earnings releases) and from Rockstar press releases that Take-Two hosts on its investor site. Next come Rockstar's own Newswire and game pages. Where a filing gives only a month, the table gives only a month. We did not fill a day in from fan wikis.

Planned versus actual. Some dates were announced in advance and then moved. The table marks those "(announced)" when we found no later record of the actual day. Take-Two's quarterly pipeline tables also list planned dates that never happened, such as GTA V on PC for January 27, 2015 and then March 24, 2015. Those are left out of the master table. The PC version shipped April 14, 2015.

What is left out. The table leaves out mobile ports of the PS2-era games, PlayStation 2 Classics re-releases and London 1961, the free PC add-on for the first game, which no Rockstar or Take-Two record we found dates. Game Boy Color and Dreamcast versions of the 2D games appear on Rockstar's platform lists without a dated record, so they get no row.

Arithmetic for the gaps. A gap is counted from the first release of one main entry to the first release of the next. For the day-level dates, whole months are counted first, then the leftover days. For the 1997 and 1999 games only a month is on record, so those gaps are month to month.

The master table

Each game has its own page in the archive, from GTA to GTA VI.

Why the dates disagree

The same game can carry three different dates depending on who you ask. These are the conflicts we found inside Rockstar's and Take-Two's own records.

The practical rule: for anything before 2008, use the filing month and treat any single day as a North American date unless a region is named.

The gaps between main entries

In days, the last five gaps are 372, 728, 1,281, 1,967 and 4,811.

Two patterns stand out. First, the PS2 years ran on an annual rhythm that no later generation repeated: three main games and two PSP games launched in five of the six Octobers from 2001 to 2006. Second, each HD-era gap is longer than the one before it. GTA VI's 158-month gap is about two and a half times GTA IV to GTA V (158 divided by 64 is 2.47).

GTA VI's gap was meant to be shorter. Trailer 1 (December 2023) gave a 2025 window; Rockstar then set May 26, 2026, which would have made the gap 152 months and 9 days, before moving to November 19, 2026, 177 days later (see the delay timeline).

Platform lag, game by game

The table also shows how long the console-first habit has run. The figures below use the first platform's date and the first PC or new-generation date in the master table.

For four games running, the PC version followed in about seven months. GTA V broke that pattern, mostly because it went to PS4 and Xbox One first. GTA VI has no PC version announced at all; our PC release tracker follows that question.

Trivia

• Take-Two's fiscal 2006 10-K lists Vice City Stories on PSP in October 2006 and Liberty City Stories on PS2 in June 2006 in its release list. Its best-sellers table in the same filing gives the two the other way round: Liberty City Stories PS2 "October 2006" and Vice City Stories PSP "June 2006."
• Rockstar's April 2008 GTA IV release called it the first next-generation GTA and said it was "now available worldwide." No earlier main entry had a single worldwide day in the records we found.
• The Episodes from Liberty City disc did not need a copy of GTA IV or an internet connection, Rockstar's October 29, 2009 release said.

Sources

• Rockstar Games game pages, checked Oct 11 2026
• Take-Two 10-K, fiscal 1999, filed Jan 27 2000
• Take-Two 10-K, fiscal 2002, filed Dec 23 2002
• Take-Two 10-K, fiscal 2003, filed Feb 12 2004
• Take-Two 8-K exhibit, Sep 10 2004
• Rockstar press release, San Andreas Xbox and PC dates, Dec 16 2004
• Take-Two 10-K, fiscal 2005, filed Jan 31 2006
• Rockstar press release, Liberty City Stories PS2 date, Apr 18 2006
• Rockstar press release, Liberty City Stories PS2 available, Jun 7 2006
• Take-Two 10-K, fiscal 2006, filed Feb 28 2007
• Rockstar press release, Vice City Stories PS2, Mar 6 2007
• Take-Two 10-K, fiscal 2008, filed Dec 19 2008
• Rockstar press release, GTA IV now available worldwide, Apr 29 2008
• Take-Two 10-Q, filed Mar 11 2009
• Take-Two 10-Q, filed Jun 5 2009
• Rockstar press release, Chinatown Wars PSP, Oct 20 2009
• Rockstar press release, The Ballad of Gay Tony, Oct 29 2009
• Rockstar press release, Chinatown Wars App Store, Jan 18 2010
• Rockstar press release, GTA IV: Complete Edition now available, Oct 27 2010
• Take-Two 10-Q, filed Jun 9 2010
• Push Square, Episodes from Liberty City delay, Mar 19 2010
• Take-Two 10-K, fiscal 2011, filed May 25 2011
• Take-Two 10-Q, filed Feb 4 2014
• Take-Two 10-K, fiscal 2015, filed May 22 2015
• Take-Two Q2 FY22 earnings release, Nov 3 2021
• Take-Two Q3 FY22 earnings release, Feb 7 2022
• Take-Two Q4 FY22 earnings release, May 16 2022
• Rockstar press release, GTA V on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, Mar 15 2022
• Netflix, Trilogy Definitive Edition on Netflix, Nov 29 2023
• Rockstar Newswire, Free Upgrade for GTA V on PC Now Available, Mar 4 2025
• Steam: GTA V Legacy, GTA V Enhanced, Episodes from Liberty City, checked Oct 11 2026
• GTA VI Forum FACTS.md, items F1 to F4 and F60 to F62