Let it not be said that Rockstar Games is the type to let any kind of shenanigans surrounding Grand Theft Auto 6 go on for over a week, because mere days after it was spotted, the GTA 6 title IDs that appeared in the PlayStation Store backend on March 1, which subsequently led to harmless profile exploits, are no more. Rockstar apparently ordered the removal, and anyone who had managed to add the unreleased game to their "recently played" list on PS5 or Xbox has had it stripped from their profiles. Worse still, some accounts are reportedly getting banned.
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.
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.
