GTA 6 Is Showing Up in PS5 Recently Played Lists Thanks to a PSN Glitch

Nobody has played GTA 6. And yet, if you glanced at certain PSN profiles right now, you'd think otherwise.

Over the past few days, PlayStation players have been exploiting a glitch that makes Grand Theft Auto VI appear in their "Recently Played" list, complete with a playtime counter sitting at under an hour. The game isn't out. It won't be out until November 19, 2026. But that hasn't stopped people from flexing it anyway.

The whole thing kicked off when PlayStation Game Size, a well-known PlayStation database tracker, revealed that GTA 6's title IDs (PPSA01547_00 and PPSA29660_00) had been added to Sony's backend systems. Two IDs raised some eyebrows, though PlayStation Game Size clarified it's "normal" and likely tied to different regions, with all editions sharing the same ID. The big takeaway from their post? Pre-orders are probably coming soon.

Once those IDs became semi-public knowledge, it didn't take long for someone to figure out how to exploit them.

The Glitch Itself

X / Twitter account @videotechuk_ posted footage showing GTA 6 sitting in a player's Recently Played section, crediting PSN user Ousora1 as the person who first figured out how to trigger it. The process is reportedly quite complicated and involves GitHub, though the specifics aren't something worth spelling out here. Mainly because some people are actually charging money to explain it, which feels a bit off.

What the glitch does not do is give you access to anything. No demo. No early build. No secret download. It's purely cosmetic, taking advantage of how PSN's profile system references the storefront database. If a title ID exists, certain parts of the platform interact with it, and under the right conditions, the profile system logs it as played.

There's an easy way to spot the fake-outs, too. Check their Trophy progress for GTA 6. If it's sitting at 0%, it's a glitch. Every time.

Xbox players have their own version of this, which is arguably even simpler. Through the Xbox smartphone app, users remote-start the installation of GTA 6 like they would with any upcoming title. Only a few kilobytes download before the system throws an error, since the game doesn't actually exist yet, but it still logs the title in their recently played activity feed.

So What Does This Actually Mean?

Beyond the trolling, the bigger story here is what those title IDs suggest. The last time something similar happened, Red Dead Redemption 2 IDs appeared in the PlayStation database around two weeks before pre-orders went live. PlayStation Game Size made the same observation about GTA 6, teasing: "I expect we'll see something about the game soon."

Given that GTA 6 is priced to reportedly cost $80 for the standard edition and $100 for a Deluxe Edition, based on recent speculation, whenever those pre-orders do drop they'll be a moment in themselves.

For now though, the internet is doing what it does best. One quote making the rounds sums it up well: "We really got GTA 6 glitches before GTA 6."

GTA 6 launches on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S on November 19, 2026.