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- Latest
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- 2 min read
- Last updated
- Nov 12, 2026
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The footage, first posted by the Miami account Only in Dade, recreates the studio's real-life October marketing stunt with West Coast Customs.
What the clip shows
The clip is shot from a first-person perspective, as if recorded by a passenger inside a moving vehicle travelling along a street modelled on Miami Beach's Ocean Drive. Exotic cars are parked along the road, pedestrians walk past, and the Art Deco hotels of Vice City line the street. A second person films the same scene from the sidewalk. Some fans have speculated that the two people filming are Jason and Lucia, the game's protagonists, but the footage is not clear enough to confirm that.
The footage first circulated without any official backing, and some viewers questioned whether it was AI-generated or a fan-made render. Rockstar's decision to repost it to its own Instagram Story and like the original post is what settled the question for most observers: the studio rarely interacts with unofficial posts in public, and the repost is widely read as confirmation that the clip is genuine in-game footage. Rockstar itself has made no formal statement about the clip.
A recreation of Rockstar's real-life stunt
The clip mirrors a real video from October, when Rockstar worked with West Coast Customs to bring cars from Grand Theft Auto VI into the real world and paraded them around Miami. The in-game version reproduces the same camera movement, the same car positions and the same bystanders, including a person on a motorized scooter and a man photographing the cars. The game recreates a real event that was itself staged to promote the game.
What the clip does not confirm
The first-person camera angle does not confirm that Grand Theft Auto VI will offer a playable first-person mode at launch. The identities of the two people filming remain unconfirmed, and the clip reveals no new story details, missions or systems. The clip runs about 20 seconds and shows atmosphere. It arrived one week before launch.
Grand Theft Auto VI launches on November 19, 2026, for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Pre-loading opened on November
10. The clip follows the game's 30-second pre-load trailer, which arrived the same day, and Rockstar's statement confirming a 30 frames per second target on all consoles, with ray-traced shadows exclusive to PlayStation 5 Pro.
Rockstar reposted a roughly 20-second first-person GTA 6 clip of Ocean Drive to its Instagram Story, a recreation of its October real-life marketing stunt in Miami.