Pre-loads for Grand Theft Auto VI opened on PlayStation 5 at midnight on 10 November. Sony's Malaysian GTA VI page tells PS5 owners to clear "a minimum of 212GB of storage space" before the game launches on 19 November. Sony gives the space to clear, not the exact download size, which may differ. So we took the full 212GB as the upper size and worked out how long a download that size takes at Malaysian broadband speeds.
Quick facts
- Pre-load: from 10 November 2026, midnight local time, for digital pre-orders on PS5
- Storage: clear a minimum of 212GB on a PS5, according to PlayStation Malaysia
- Launch: 19 November 2026. On PlayStation it runs on PS5 and PS5 Pro, and it is not playable on PS4
- Price on PlayStation Store Malaysia: RM339 Standard, RM419 Ultimate
The PlayStation Store Malaysia listing shows the Standard Edition at RM339 and the Ultimate Edition at RM419. A digital pre-order made before launch also includes one month of GTA+ and the Vintage Vice City Pack. The GTA+ month has to be claimed by 31 March 2027, and once activated it renews into a paid subscription unless you cancel it.
How long a 212GB download takes in Malaysia
The Ookla Speedtest Global Index puts the median fixed broadband download result from Malaysian Speedtest users at 181.24Mbps for September 2026. That is a median of people who ran a speed test, not a survey of every home, but it is a public benchmark. At that speed, 212GB (counted as 212,000 megabytes) takes about 156 minutes, or just over two and a half hours. On a 100Mbps line it is closer to four hours and 43 minutes. A 1Gbps line cuts it to about 28 minutes.
These are best-case figures: we divided 212GB by the line speed. They assume the line runs flat out for the whole download, with nothing else on the connection. Wi-Fi from another room, other people streaming at home and the speed of PlayStation's own servers on the night all make it slower, so give it more time than the chart says.
What 212GB does to a PS5's storage
Sony lists the PS5 Digital Edition at 825GB and the standard console at 1TB. It also notes that part of the drive is reserved for system software, so the space you can actually use is smaller than the box says. On the 825GB Digital Edition, the 212GB Sony asks you to clear is already more than a quarter of the stated capacity, and a bigger share of what is really free.
PlayStation Malaysia says pre-loading is open to anyone who has pre-ordered the game. If you are still deciding which console to play it on, we covered the CelcomDigi PS5 and GTA VI bundle at RM2,999 and the PS5's 11.11 price in Malaysia.
The game unlocks on 19 November. On PlayStation Store Malaysia that is listed as 4pm UTC on 18 November, which is midnight in Malaysia.
