GTA 6 Day-One Patch 1.002 Is Out: About 1 GB, No Notes

A first GTA 6 update appeared on players' consoles on 13 November, ahead of the 19 November unlock. It is labelled version 1.002.000, it is small next to the 212 GB preload, and Rockstar has not said a word about it. That is why this post carries the Reported badge: everything below comes from outlets and store trackers, none of it from Rockstar.

What has been reported

VICE wrote on 13 November that the update "is now live for some players on PS5". Players first posted about it on X, where the update showed up in their PlayStation menus. VICE puts the PS5 download at "around 1 GB".

ScreenRant names the same version, 1.002.000, and says it reached both PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S that day. Its numbers, which it credits to the X account GTA 6 Countdown:

• PS5: a 1.073 GB download.
• Xbox Series X|S: 2.18 GB.

Do not compare those two directly. ScreenRant says the PS5 patch "requires" a download of 1.073 GB while the Xbox one "takes up" 2.18 GB. One figure is a download, the other may be space on the drive. We cannot tell which from the text, and neither outlet shows the console screens.

The staggered rollout

VICE also relays a post from the PlayStation Game Size account, a tracker that watches PlayStation Store data. As quoted: "GTA 6 update 01.002.000 has been released, but it is not available for all users. It is currently available to the first 50% (Users), and it will be available to the remaining 50% in 11 hours."

If that is right, Sony is releasing the update in two waves, which would explain why some players saw it early on 13 November and others had nothing to download. We could not open that account's post ourselves, so treat the split as one tracker's claim. It matters for one practical reason: an empty update list on your console is not a sign that something is wrong.

What Rockstar has said: nothing yet

We read Rockstar's official GTA VI site on 14 November. Its Featured News block lists three Newswire posts, the newest dated 10 November ("Pre-Load Grand Theft Auto VI Now"). There is no post about an update, no patch notes and no version number. VICE says the same: "there are currently no official patch notes for GTA 6 Version 1.002, so we don't know what the update changes."

Rockstar's support site did not answer our requests this morning, so we could not check it for an article. If one exists, it will be the first thing we cite.

What the outlets guess

Both outlets read the update as a launch-day patch pushed out early. VICE: Rockstar "appears" to be pushing it early "so millions of players don't have to download it at the same time on release day." ScreenRant calls it "presumably a straightforward day one patch" that likely fixes problems in the build used for preloading, and expects no new content.

Those are guesses. Nothing published shows what is inside, and a patch of this size could carry anything from a handful of fixes to larger changes. We will not describe the contents until Rockstar or a platform does. Treat any changelog circulating today as unverified.

What it changes for you

• Storage. Our file size guide works with Rockstar's "up to 212 GB". Add about 1 to 2 GB for this update, going by the two reports, and keep the headroom you already planned. Rockstar's 212 GB is its preload figure; the update is a separate download.
• Preload. If your preload already finished, the update is a separate small download. The preload guide covers stalled or failed downloads and keeping the console online.
• Unlock. Rockstar's own support page still puts the release at midnight local time on 19 November. Nothing reported so far ties the unlock to this update, and Rockstar has not said whether players must install it before they can start the game.
• Console updates. The server status page explains how to check PlayStation and Xbox service status if a download refuses to start.

Our everything we know page keeps the running list of what Rockstar has put on the record, and this update is not on it, because nothing official exists yet.

What would settle it

Three things would move this post from Reported to something firmer: patch notes on Rockstar's Newswire or support site, a version and size shown in a platform's own store listing, or a statement from Rockstar on whether the update is required at launch. Until one of those appears, the version number and the size rest on player screenshots and trackers.