GTA 6 Official Facts — Date, Map Names, Lucia & Jason

Rockstar’s public page for Grand Theft Auto VI is still the only document that should decide a pre-order, a console upgrade, or a map pin. This briefing is a facts desk, not a rumor dump. If a claim is not on rockstargames.com/VI, a Newswire post, or a Take-Two earnings remark, Map-6 labels it unconfirmed.

The game launches November 19, 2026 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. That date replaced earlier windows after Rockstar asked for more polish time. PC is not in the same sentence. Treat “day-one Steam” posts as noise until a separate Rockstar calendar exists. Editions and US list prices live in the pre-order guide: Standard $79.99, Ultimate $99.99, with Ultimate as a digital extras tier, not a statue box.

Named geography, not a finished atlas

Rockstar markets a Florida-shaped state called Leonida. The destinations it has put on posters and trailers are the vocabulary Map-6 uses:

• Vice City — Miami-coded metro, nightlife, beaches, downtown seams.
• Leonida Keys — causeways, water, the “escape the city” contrast.
• Grassrivers — wetlands, mangrove energy, wildlife tone.
• Port Gellhorn — working waterfront and freight, not South Beach postcard.
• Ambrosia — gated wealth; Map-6 pins it as Ambrosia Island.
• Mount Kalaga — northern wilderness and elevation, not swamp flatness.

Trailers also spend time on Ocean Drive as a recognizable strip. That is a district energy, not a promise that every hotel name is canon. Community reconstructions argue the full state may dwarf Los Santos. Rockstar has not printed km². We keep estimates on the map-size guide and treat them as math, not a spec sheet. Open the interactive map when you want pins instead of adjectives.

Story and protagonists — official bios only

The campaign is sold as a modern Bonnie-and-Clyde couple: Lucia Caminos and Jason Duval. Lucia is the first non-optional female lead in a mainline GTA. Rockstar’s own copy places her out of the Leonida Penitentiary, aiming for the life her family never got. Jason is framed as someone who grew up around crime and tried to step away in the Keys — then Lucia happens. That is premise, not a mission list.

Map-6 will not invent last-heist titles, romance endings, or prison-sentence lengths. Character pages: Lucia and Jason. Longer dual-lead notes: characters guide.

Systems shown in An Extended Look

On 27 August 2026, Rockstar ran An Extended Look: Netflix first at 3 PM ET, then YouTube and the official VI page six hours later. It was in-game PlayStation 5 footage, not a collectible dump. The useful systems sentences:

• You can play as both leads. Switching looks near-instant in free roam. Some missions lock a perspective. The other character can be AI support.
• The six-star wanted ladder is back. The HUD also shows what police know — appearance, weapons, vehicle — not only how loud you are.
• Lifestyle simulation returns in a San Andreas spirit: food, exercise, and sleep change how the pair look.
• Side activities in the package included water sports, gyms, clubs, and denser NPC reactions. Treat the clip as a sample, not a 100% activity list.

Deep scrub: Extended Look breakdown and the six-star explainer.

What this page refuses to “complete”

We will not publish a fake shop directory, a leaked mission flowchart, or a PC date dressed as Newswire. If you arrived from a gift-card shop that mixed story recap with Shark Card upsells, the map work still lives here for free. Pre-order when you have locked a platform. Explore geography on /map. Read dated briefings under news. That is the whole official-facts loop.

Prices, editions, and what is still blank

US list prices from Take-Two: Standard $79.99, Ultimate $99.99. France and UK street prices move; the pre-order guide tracks the Amazon.fr code-in-box listings when they are in stock. Ultimate extras are vehicles, weapons, apparel, and story-threaded content — not a larger Leonida. Standard owners can buy an upgrade later on PlayStation or Microsoft stores.

Still blank on purpose: PC date, cross-saves, collectible totals, a Collector statue SKU, and any “89 percent Ultimate” figure that is not in a Take-Two filing. If a retailer page contradicts Rockstar, Rockstar wins. If a TikTok contradicts the VI page, the VI page wins.

Use this recap as a hub index, then jump to the page that does the long work: map size, wanted HUD, characters, or editions. Do not treat a gift-card landing page as a primary source.