GTA 6 fans have gone into overdrive — as they have done so many times recently amid the wait for Trailer 3 — after reports emerged online that Best Buy had potentially leaked the game’s pre-order date.
We’ve been here before, many times. Some fans actually believe in a Trailer 3 release date prediction that came from someone who charted the planetary positions for every single Rockstar Games trailer released since 2007.
Now, we have a rumor around the GTA 6 pre-order date. For any other game, this wouldn’t necessarily be massive news, nor would there be extreme interest in a leak. But this is GTA 6. It’s perhaps the most anticipated game of all time, and seems set to become the biggest entertainment launch in history. The date pre-orders go live will likely crash websites.
And so, we come to a YouTuber called Frogboyx1gaming, who, during a live stream, appeared to receive an email from Best Buy to his Best Buy affiliate account signalling a pre-order campaign for GTA 6 that would run from May 18-21. If true, that would suggest GTA 6 pre-orders go live on May 18, and if that's true, you’d imagine GTA 6 Trailer 3 isn't far away. Perhaps it's coming today!
There’s already been a huge amount of fuss over the legitimacy of this email. Certainly, Frogboyx1gaming appears surprised to have received it during the livestream, and has been open in sharing images and photos to back up the claim. There’s all sorts of debate about various parts of the email, from the description of GTA 6 itself (as opposed to the full spelling, Grand Theft Auto VI), to the idea it would be sent in the first place. For what it’s worth, IGN has asked Best Buy for comment.
🚨BREAKING: GTA VI Pre-Orders (Physical) have leaked online!
👨💻It seems that Best-Buy affiliates have been receiving this email. The campaign is set to be running next week from May 18th-21st.
📱Credit: @Frogboyx1Gamingpic.twitter.com/eETF1Tuepx
— Project Vice (@project_vice) May 14, 2026
True or not, this is yet another indication of the intense scrutiny on GTA 6, Rockstar Games, and pretty much anything even tangentially related to the game’s development. I’ve even seen fans track how busy it is at coffee shops local to Rockstar North’s office in Scotland, in some weird video game version of the Pentagon pizza theory.
None of this intense involvement with GTA 6 is particularly healthy (GTA 6 Trailer 3 will come out eventually!), but it is fuelled by the huge gap between trailer drops and even basic gameplay information fans have had to sit through so far. It’s been over a year since Trailer 2 came out. Trailer 1 came out three years ago, in 2023. The drip-feed of GTA 6 news has been stretched to breaking point, as, it seems, have fans.
Maybe a crazy theory, but I feel like that GTA 6 Best Buy email was just scheduled at the wrong time.
Was probably meant to go live later today. Right date, wrong time. I've made that mistake before. Could bode well for today!
— TGG (@TGGonYT) May 14, 2026
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