GTA 6’s Australia and New Zealand build is missing a small file — and dataminers think it means regional cuts
Dataminers picking through the newly live GTA 6 pre-load have spotted a small difference between regional builds — and it may mean some players get a slightly edited game. X user TexFunz2 listed the PlayStation 5 version’s 32 PlayGo content chunks and found two called core_restofworld, one around 1.28 GB and a second, core_restofworld001, of about 704 KB. The larger chunk, they suggest, holds content censored from some regional versions, likely Japan’s. They later confirmed that the Australia and New Zealand version is missing the smaller chunk entirely. Given that it is under a megabyte, whatever is absent is likely minor — VGC suggests a texture, an image or another small piece of content — rather than a mission or a scene. Rockstar has said nothing about regional edits, and the pre-load files are encrypted, so this is a reading of file listings, not proof of cut content. The game still launches on 19 November.
Sources: Video Games Chronicle — GTA 6 may be censored in Australia and other regions, dataminer suggests, 9 Nov · GameReactor — Dataminers dig into newly live GTA 6 preload files ahead of November 19 launch, 9 Nov