Sunday, 15 November 2026

Xbox Store briefly showed a GTA 6 pre-order at $1,999.99

A third GTA 6 entry on the Xbox Store, priced at $1,999.99, appeared days before launch and has since vanished, with no word from Microsoft or Rockstar.

Key points

  • An Xbox Store GTA 6 pre-order priced at $1,999.99 appeared and was then removed.
  • The standard and Ultimate editions stay at $79.99 and $99.99.
  • The odd entry was labelled "Code-in-Box Product".

A GTA 6 pre-order listed at $1,999.99 turned up on the Xbox Store on Saturday, 14 November, and has since been taken down. The price is about 20 times the $99.99 charged for the game’s top edition on the same store, so most people took it for a mistake.

Alongside it, the store showed the usual Standard Edition at $79.99 and Ultimate Edition at $99.99. The odd entry carried no edition name, but its description called it a “Code-in-Box Product”, a label that suggests the boxed copies sold with a download code instead of a disc.

Deal tracker Wario64 posted the listing in the afternoon, saying the Grand Theft Auto VI pre-order was $1,999.99 on Xbox.

GTA 6 Preorder 1,999.99

A separate store record may have been needed to handle the boxed-code copies, and a placeholder price high enough that nobody would pick it by accident would fit. That is a guess: Microsoft has said nothing about the listing, and Rockstar has not announced any edition near that price.

It would not be the first time. The Xbox Store showed Rayman Origins: Enhanced Edition at the same $1,999.99 in May 2026, and that page also disappeared without explanation.

Nothing here changes what players pay. Xbox’s own page for the game now lists the Ultimate Edition upgrade at $20, and offers the Vintage Vice City Pack and a month of GTA+ as pre-order bonuses for orders placed before 23:59 on 19 November 2026. The standard price of $79.99 and the Ultimate price of $99.99 are as they were before the stray entry appeared.

Noaman Rasheed

Noaman covers gaming and streaming for Tech Prolonged: consoles, PC and mobile platforms, game services and streaming apps, and what they cost in Pakistan.