What is the difference between GTA 6 Standard and Ultimate Edition?

Side by side

	Standard Edition	Ultimate Edition
US price, PlayStation Store	$79.99	$99.99
US price, Xbox store	from $79.99	from $99.99
The game	Yes	Yes
Ultimate Edition Upgrade	Sold separately; $20.00 on the Xbox store	Included
Vintage Vice City Pack, for purchases prior to November 20, 2026	Yes	Yes
Physical (code-in-box) version	Yes	No

Prices are US dollar prices read on November 13, 2026. The Xbox store shows them as “$79.99+” and “$99.99+”.

What the Ultimate Edition adds

Rockstar’s support article lists 16 items. The short descriptions below are from the PlayStation and Xbox pages.

Vehicles

• ’95 Grotti Cheetah, a mid-’90s sports car with a retro-futuristic livery.
• Jason’s safehouse vehicles: PlayStation names a Dinka Enduro motorcycle and a Crest Kayak.
• Shitzu Squalo, a pink and blue boat docked at Washington Beach with a weapons crate.
• ’67 Vapid Dominator Buggy with the Paradise Garage in Watson Bay, which has a weapon locker.
• Ganado Retro Build: exclusive mods for Jason’s Vapid Ganado pickup.
• Classic Car Collection: a commission from the collector Wyman to find and restore abandoned cars.

Weapons

• Hawk and Little Morgan revolvers.
• Personalized weapon variants: engraved versions of Jason’s Girardi ES9 pistol and Lucia’s Klose K17 pistol.

Clothing and looks

• Vice City Styles: outfits, hairstyles, tattoos and more for Jason and Lucia.
• Goodtime Gear: apparel and accessories themed on the in-game TV character Macca the Gator.

Places

• Rideout Customs, a mod shop.
• Sara’s Unisex Salon.
• Stock 305, a clothing store.
• Electric Fang, a tattoo parlor with over 50 tattoos.
• One-Eyed Willie’s, an off-road mod shop.
• PTT Youngin$ Compound, a gang compound to raid for special items.

PlayStation lists the five shops under the heading “Only open for business in the Ultimate Edition”.

You do not get everything at the start

Rockstar says the bonuses “are threaded across all aspects of Jason and Lucia’s story, with new items uncovered behind each chapter”. PlayStation describes the Grotti Cheetah as available for “later-stage action”.

Upgrading later

Standard Edition owners can buy the Ultimate Edition Upgrade as a digital add-on from the PlayStation or Microsoft store. Rockstar says owners of the boxed Standard Edition can do so after redeeming their code.

What both editions share

The same game, and the same pre-order bonus: the Vintage Vice City Pack with any purchase prior to November 20, 2026. Digital pre-orders of either edition also include a month of GTA+.

What we could not confirm

• Prices outside the United States.
• How much playing time the extra content adds. No official page says.