GTA 6 sleuths deduce that Rockstar North's likely spent over $2 billion making the long-awaited game after snooping through its financial documents

Some GTA 6 hopefuls are killing time waiting for the game's November 2026 release date by snooping through Rockstar Games' financial records and trying to work out how much the open-world blockbuster costs to make.

There's been lots of speculation around GTA 6's mysterious budget, what with how long it's taken Rockstar Games to come out with a sequel to its biggest money maker and how damn expensive every frame of its latest trailers looks. But leave it to Rockstar Games fans to go sleuthing through the company's official documents while waiting for the slightest slither of news about GTA 6.

The content creator eventually concluded that GTA 6's budget is somewhere between $3 billion and $5 billion on the high end, though he states that he's by no means an accountant and that his maths shouldn't be taken as gospel. It should also be noted that a company's expenditure doesn't necessarily align with a game's budget, since there's likely a decent chunk of Rockstar developers who were working on GTA Online, Red Dead Online, Red Dead Redemption's next-gen version, and more during that time. Not to mention that every company has costs unrelated to the products they built.