Is GTA 6 on Game Pass or PS Plus? No, and what that means for you

Everything official about how GTA 6 is sold points to a straight purchase:

• Editions: Rockstar Support lists a Standard and an Ultimate Edition, sold digitally on the PlayStation Store and the Microsoft Store, and a boxed Standard Edition with a download code (how to preload either one).
• Subscriptions: Rockstar, Take-Two, Xbox and PlayStation have not announced GTA 6 for Game Pass or PS Plus.
• Pre-order bonuses: digital purchases made before November 20, 2026 get the Vintage Vice City Pack and one month of GTA+.

Take-Two, Rockstar’s parent company, has said for years that its big new releases are not going into subscriptions on day one:

• 2022: CEO Strauss Zelnick said putting major new games into a subscription at launch “doesn’t make any sense” to Take-Two, because players would not pay enough for it to work.
• 2024: talking about Call of Duty launching on Game Pass, he said putting a full-price new game into a subscription on day one pushes players to the subscription rather than the purchase.
• Older games are different: Take-Two does put games into Game Pass and PS Plus when the deal makes sense. GTA V has joined and left both services several times, years after it launched: it left Game Pass in April 2026 and leaves PS Plus Extra and Premium on November 17, 2026, two days before GTA 6 arrives.

GTA+ is Rockstar’s paid membership, tied to GTA Online. It does not give you GTA 6.

• The free month: buy the digital Standard or Ultimate Edition before November 20, 2026 and you get one month of GTA+. The Ultimate Edition upgrade on its own does not count.
• Redeeming it: on PlayStation, through the GTA+ page on the PlayStation Store by March 31, 2027. On Xbox, in Offers & Credits in the Microsoft Store within 180 days of your purchase.
• After the month: GTA+ renews at the regular monthly price until you cancel. You can cancel at any time.
• One per account: refunding the game and pre-ordering it again does not give you a second month.

• To play: no. On PS5 and Xbox, a paid online subscription is only needed for online multiplayer, and the PlayStation Store and Xbox listings describe GTA 6 as a single-player experience.
• For an online mode: Rockstar has not announced one for GTA 6. If one comes, online play on consoles normally needs PS Plus or an Xbox Game Pass tier with online play.
• Cloud play: not part of Game Pass at launch as far as anyone has announced. Xbox said on October 7, 2026 that the game will not be streaming exclusively or to PC (which consoles can play GTA 6).

Possibly, years from now. Nothing has been announced, and Take-Two’s pattern with GTA V was to sell the game for a long time first and add it to subscriptions much later, for a limited time. Until something is announced, plan on buying it.

Expected or possible, not announced. We will update this page when it is.

• A later Game Pass or PS Plus release: possible years after launch, as with GTA V; nothing announced.
• An online mode: not announced, so whether it would need PS Plus or Game Pass, or GTA+, is unknown.
• Cloud gaming: whether Xbox Cloud Gaming will offer GTA 6 on any device has not been said.