GTA 6 pre-order price fears may be overblown. Leaker Billbil-kun has dismissed a set of French retail listings suggesting the game could cost as much as €89.99 for a standard copy, calling the entries placeholders with no connection to Rockstar Games‘ actual pricing.
The Fnac listings that sparked the concern
The listings appeared on French retailer Fnac in recent days, spread across five entries labelled RS1, RS2, RS3, RS4, and RS5. Every entry listed November 19 as the release date, which matches Rockstar’s publicly confirmed GTA 6 launch window. The sequential naming across five SKUs, each at a different price, led fans to read them as placeholder rows for multiple editions of the game, from a standard release up to a collector’s tier. Multiple editions at launch would be consistent with how Take-Two Interactive has handled past releases, with titles like Red Dead Redemption 2 offering standard, special, and ultimate versions at launch.
The prices on those Fnac entries were not reassuring. The cheapest was €89.99 and the most expensive reached €199.99. At the low end, that would put a standard GTA 6 above the €79.99 ceiling currently standard for AAA releases on current-generation consoles. At the high end, €199.99 ranks among the priciest physical game releases in recent memory. The gap between those two figures implies at least two or three tiers above the standard edition.
Why the GTA 6 pre-order price listings don’t hold up
Billbil-kun’s case rests on a technical point. EAN codes (European Article Numbers) are the barcode system used across European retail, comparable to UPC barcodes in the United States. The codes on those five Fnac entries do not match the identifier prefixes Take-Two Interactive uses for its commercial game releases. That mismatch points to admin-side shelf placeholders rather than real product data from the publisher.
“Those SKUs are just placeholders bcz EAN codes (like UPC in US) aren’t belonging to Take2 traditional games prefixes,” Billbil-kun wrote on Twitter. “Those prices are random ones.”
The leaker acknowledges they cannot access actual pricing right now. Billbil-kun has, however, built a track record of accurate pre-release information across dozens of major titles, covering edition names, price points, and release windows before official announcements. That history gives their read on the Fnac data more weight than the listings themselves.
What GTA 6 pre-order prices will look like on June 25
Rockstar Games confirmed last week that GTA 6 pre-orders go live on June 25. When those pages appear, real GTA 6 pre-order prices will be listed publicly for the first time. The Fnac speculation becomes irrelevant the moment official listings go up.
A $100 launch price has been a persistent concern among players for months. Rockstar has not addressed the question publicly at any point during the game’s promotional run. The pre-order date is when that silence ends, and buyers will know exactly what GTA 6 costs.