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For a brief, very funny window today, Grand Theft Auto VI had a price on the UK PlayStation Store. £0.16. In stock. Free next-day delivery. Thirty-day returns. Screenshots are already racing around X and Reddit — a sixteen-pence Grand Theft Auto is the kind of thing the internet was invented to spread.
It isn't a real price. Here's what actually happened, and what the listing does and doesn't tell you about GTA 6.
The screenshot doing the rounds is a Google search snippet for the UK PlayStation Store's GTA VI concept page. Sony's e-commerce structured data fills in the small grey strip under the title with whatever the storefront says: price, stock status, delivery, returns. Today, that strip read "£0.16 · In stock · Free next-day delivery · 30-day returns."
That's a real Google result of a real PlayStation Store page. The number on it is not a real offer. Sony does not sell unreleased AAA games for sixteen pence and then deliver them by van the next day.
This is the bit that makes it obviously a glitch and not a leak. PlayStation Store concept pages (the placeholder listings for unreleased games) usually carry no price at all — they exist so the page can be indexed, so wishlisting works, and so Sony has a stable URL to swap a real product into when pre-orders open. When something does get filled into the price field by mistake — a CMS default, a test value, a currency mis-format — you get nonsense numbers like £0.16, £0.01, or £1.00. We've seen versions of this exact glitch on the PlayStation Store before, including on other unreleased Rockstar and Take-Two titles.
The "free next-day delivery · 30-day returns" half is even more telling: it's the storefront's default disc-product boilerplate, served onto a page that hasn't had its real metadata wired up yet. It would apply to a physical edition once pre-orders go live; it does not mean a £0.16 disc is sitting in a warehouse with your name on it.
It is worth saying plainly, because the replies are already full of jokes-as-questions:
What the glitch actually confirms — quietly, without anyone meaning to — is that Sony already has the GTA 6 storefront page wired into the live commerce system. The concept URL is real. The product record is real. The fulfilment metadata (delivery, returns) is real. The price field is the only thing that's still a placeholder, and the placeholder slipped through into search for a few minutes. The plumbing is there. Sony just has not turned on the tap.
That tracks with where we are in the cycle. GTA 6 launches November 19, 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. We are roughly six months out. Six months out is the window when storefronts get prepped, marketing assets get staged, and the very systems that produced today's £0.16 search snippet get pressure-tested. Sometimes they leak a placeholder. That's the whole story.
The honest answer: when Rockstar wants it to. Pre-orders for GTA 6 will open on a date Rockstar Games sets, with a Newswire post to mark it; the Take-Two earnings call cycle and the Rockstar marketing calendar — not a Sunday-afternoon CMS quirk — are the signals worth watching. We track those on the GTA 6 Launch Desk, which only lists things Rockstar has actually confirmed.
Until then: no, you cannot buy GTA 6 for sixteen pence. But the fact that the PlayStation Store almost let you — that's worth a screenshot.
