Rockstar has removed the GTA 6 PlayStation Store backend title IDs that briefly surfaced on March 1, and platform profile tricks that made GTA 6 appear as recently played on PS5, Xbox, and even PS4 account pages have been reversed. Some accounts are reportedly getting banned after users pushed the exploit beyond a harmless flex. Two identifiers were widely shared, PPSA01547_00 and PPSA29660_00, and their presence suggested storefront infrastructure prep rather than a playable build or an official pre order opening.
If we've learned anything these past few months, its that Rockstar Games isn't one to let any Grand Theft Auto 6-related shenanigans linger for long. Just days after being spotted, the GTA 6 title IDs that surfaced in the PlayStation Store backend on March 1 and causedquite the hubbub by fuelling harmless profile exploits, have been removed.
Rockstar apparently ordered the removal and anyone who had managed to add the unreleased game to their "recently played" list on PlayStation 5 or Xbox has had it stripped from their profiles. Worse still, some accounts are reportedly getting banned - which seems a bit of an overreaction, but it is unclear at this point if the reports are accurate, and what the exact cause was if yes.
When PlayStation Game Size reported the title IDs on March 1, two identifiers stood out: PPSA01547_00 and PPSA29660_00. These are internal codes that Sony's platform uses to organize games by region, edition, and distribution format. Their presence in the database signaled that someone at Take-Two Interactive or Rockstar had pushed the data Sony needed to prepare storefront infrastructure.
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Within 48 hours, users figured out that the IDs could be exploited to make GTA 6 appear as a recently played game on their PSN and Xbox profiles. It was, in every practical sense, a harmless cosmetic trick, the digital equivalent of putting a custom license plate on a car you haven't bought yet. It was also exactly the kind of thing Rockstar would not tolerate.
The concern was never really about the profile trick itself, but about what other kinds of access to those IDs might enable. If users could interact with the title IDs enough to manipulate their own profiles, there was no guarantee that the exploit stopped there. yAmethxst had already revealed that both IDs were linked to "PS4" in Sony's database, a detail that briefly reignited speculation about a PS4 build of GTA 6 that was eventually scrapped when development shifted fully to current-gen consoles.
Hackers were even able to make the game appear on PS4 account pages, despite GTA 6 having no PS4 version whatsoever. For a studio that has reportedly been planting deliberate misinformation to catch leakers, having functional title IDs floating around in a semi-public database was a surprising liability.
The speed of the response says everything about how tightly Rockstar is managing the GTA 6 rollout. This is a company that fired over 30 employees in October 2025, faced a union dispute that reached the UK Prime Minister's desk, and has maintained an information blackout so thorough that even seasoned insiders admit they cannot get anyone at the studio to talk. A cosmetic exploit turning GTA 6 into a social media flex was never going to survive for long.
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Ultimately, when the studio finally does open pre-orders and reveal pricing for GTA 6, whether that happens alongside Trailer 3 this summer or earlier, it will be on their terms. The community just got another reminder that poking at the infrastructure before Rockstar is ready guarantees a response. For anyone still holding out hope of finding the next crack in the wall, GTA 6's pricing, editions, and full store page are coming. They are just not coming on anyone's timeline but Rockstar's.
In the meantime, fans can at least look forward to remakes of Grand Theft Auto games in other titles, like Far Cry, Fortnite, and even Pro Evolution Soccer, as creative fans try to fill the gap between now and GTA 6's launch.
