At 12:01 AM on November 19, 2026, GTA VI ships on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. Every GameStop that scheduled a midnight launch will have a line that started hours earlier — people in camping chairs, controllers charged at home, group chats firing off countdowns from three time zones. This is the largest entertainment launch in recorded history, which sounds like hype until you look at the predecessor's numbers and realize GTA VI is expected to rewrite every chart that exists. But that's not why people line up. They line up because launch night is a thing that happens together — the shared countdown, the moment someone in line …