GTA 6 Pre-Order Rumor Looks Like a Bust

GTA 6 pre-orders were rumored to go live today, May 18, but it looks like those reports were inaccurate.

Last week, GTA 6 fans lost their collective mind after reports emerged that Best Buy had potentially leaked the game’s pre-order date. During a livestream, YouTuber Frogboyx1gaming appeared to receive an email from Best Buy to his affiliate account signalling a pre-order campaign for GTA 6 that would run from May 18-21. The suggestion was that GTA 6 pre-orders would go live on May 18, potentially alongside GTA 6 Trailer 3.

IGN had asked Best Buy for comment but received no response. Still, there was plenty of doubt cast on the rumor, and, as we pointed out last week, we’d been here before, many times. Some GTA 6 fans actually believed 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. That turned out to be inaccurate, too.

Now, the main administrator of GTA Forums has posted to say a verified source at a European distribution company “confirmed there's no pre-orders,” insisting Best Buy had made a mistake.

As you’d expect, the GTA 6 fan community, already close to breaking point waiting for some sort of announcement or reveal for the game, has gone into meltdown — and yes, there are a number of angry posts from people who had come to expect pre-orders would go live today, despite the fact there was no official announcement that Rockstar.