GTA VI age ratings show up in PlayStation ads
PlayStation's GTA VI Ultimate Edition ads on Facebook and Instagram showed age ratings for four regions. Two of the ads have since been pulled, and neither Rockstar nor the ratings boards have confirmed anything.
PlayStation's own adverts appear to have revealed GTA VI's age ratings in four regions. GTAVice.net and its sister site iGrandTheftAuto found them in ads for the GTA VI Ultimate Edition on Facebook and Instagram. PlayStation started running the ads on September 26.
These are the ratings shown in the ads:
- Australia: X 18+
- Europe and the United Kingdom: PEGI 18
- Germany: USK 18
- Mexico: D
Two of the ads did not stay up. As of 1 PM ET today, PlayStation had taken down the Australian ad with the X 18+ rating, and iGrandTheftAuto's list marks the Mexican ad as removed too. The reports don't say why they came down.
The European rating is the best supported of the four. PEGI 18 now appears on the official GTA VI listing on the PlayStation Store, where it was recently shown as "PEGI 18 Provisional".
None of this is official yet. Rockstar Games hasn't confirmed the ratings, and the boards in question haven't announced them. For now, the main evidence for GTA VI's age rating is a set of social media ads, and half of them have already disappeared.
Rockstar has yet to announce the game's regional age ratings. Until it does, or until the ratings boards publish their decisions, treat these four as likely but unconfirmed, with PEGI 18 on firmer ground than the rest.
