Rockstar's support page says only PS5 GTA 6 box codes are region-locked, Eurogamer reports

Rockstar updated its GTA 6 support page to set out which code-in-the-box download codes are region-locked, Eurogamer reported on July 27, 2026. According to Eurogamer, the restrictions apply only to the PS5 version.

Eurogamer said retailers had posted conflicting messages about where the codes would work when pre-orders opened. The updated Rockstar page says that, depending on where you buy a retail copy, limits on where the code can be redeemed apply. Eurogamer's advice was to buy in a country that matches your platform account, so a US copy is not for someone without a US account.

Eurogamer put the PS5-only limit down to how PlayStation Network account regions work. It said Xbox codes are not region-locked and can be redeemed anywhere in the world, whatever the account region.

Rockstar's list, as Eurogamer reproduced it, has nine groups: Brazil; a Latin America group of 15 countries including Argentina, Chile and Mexico; North America (Canada and the United States); South Korea; Japan; the United Kingdom; Saudi Arabia and the UAE; a Rest of Asia group including Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan; and a large Rest of EMEA and Asia group covering most of Europe plus Australia, India, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey. Eurogamer also said codes in Japanese boxed copies expire 170 days after printing, which Rockstar put down to local regulations, and worked out a last redemption date of May 8, 2027 if the codes are printed on launch day, November 19.

Push Square covered the same list later that day. Its writer said the boxed PS5 copies are region locked, and that buyers outside the supported countries would need to import a copy and set up a PSN account for that country. That is Push Square's reading, not a Rockstar statement. Neither report covered edge cases such as players whose account region differs from where they live.