When you drop a hundred dollars on a premium edition, you expect to at least get what’s written on the label. But GTA fans were quick to spot something off: one of the headline bonuses in the Ultimate Edition references a game it never actually appeared in.
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The $100 Bonus That Was Never in Vice City
GTA VI’s Ultimate Edition markets a pair of exclusive revolvers as weapons “from the Vercetti Estate” — a nod to Tommy Vercetti, the iconic protagonist of GTA Vice City from 2002. It’s a compelling piece of fan service on paper. The problem is that one of those revolvers never showed up in Vice City at all.
The weapon in question is a revolver with a scope. It does exist within the GTA series — just not where Rockstar placed it. The scoped model is actually the Equalizer from Vice City Stories, a 2006 PSP spin-off where it served as an alternative to the standard .357. The gap between these two games isn’t trivial: four years apart, a different platform, a different protagonist, a different story entirely.
What Weapons Actually Come With GTA VI Ultimate Edition
Setting the lore slip aside, the Ultimate Edition’s arsenal still has some genuinely interesting pieces. Lucia gets the Klose K17 Custom, while Jason’s signature sidearm is the Girardi ES9. The second bonus revolver — the one without the scope — did legitimately appear in Vice City, so at least that one checks out.
| Weapon | What Rockstar Claims | Where It Actually Comes From |
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| Scoped revolver | Vercetti Estate (Vice City) | GTA: Vice City Stories, 2006 |
| Second revolver | Vercetti Estate (Vice City) | GTA Vice City, 2002 |
| Klose K17 Custom / Girardi ES9 | Ultimate Edition exclusive | New GTA VI weapons |
There’s an interesting footnote here for series historians: in early builds of Vice City, the .357 was actually called the Colt Python — one of the only times Rockstar ever used a real-world firearm name in the franchise. They quietly dropped that practice and never looked back.
Everything Included in GTA VI Ultimate Edition for $100
The weapons are just one layer of the package. Ultimate Edition is built around the idea of having everything unlocked from day one — exclusive vehicles, gated locations, missions, and cosmetics that don’t exist in the standard $80 version.
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Vehicles: 1995 Grotti Cheetah, 1955 Vapid Stanier classic sedan, Shitzu Squalo boat, and a 1967 Vapid Dominator buggy
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A private garage on Ocean Beach plus exclusive upgrades for Jason’s Vapid Ganado pickup
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Exclusive outfits, tattoos and hairstyles for both Jason and Lucia
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Access to five locked in-game businesses: a barbershop, the Electric Fang Tattoo parlor, Stock 305 clothing store, and two auto workshops
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Additional story missions not available in the standard edition
Why This Matters: Nostalgia as a Sales Tool
The misattributed pistol isn’t just a lore curiosity for hardcore fans. It reveals something about how GTA VI’s marketing machine actually operates. Rockstar has leaned heavily into Vice City sentiment throughout the promotional campaign — the Vintage Vice City Pack, the Vercetti Estate references, the whole sun-drenched 80s aesthetic. All of it is designed to trigger an emotional response in a fanbase that grew up with the 2002 original.
When that same packaging contains a weapon that has nothing to do with Vice City, it raises a fair question: how carefully did anyone actually fact-check the marketing materials? Once is an oversight. But the community is watching the details of this release more closely than usual, and small mistakes tend to compound.
This comes alongside an already heated debate about the Ultimate Edition’s structure itself. Locking story missions and in-game shops behind a premium tier is something the industry has rarely attempted in a single-player context — and players are understandably wary about where that logic leads once the game is out.
What to Expect Next
GTA VI launches November 19, 2026, with pre-orders going live on June 25th. Rockstar still has time to correct the weapon description before release — it’s a few lines of text, nothing more. Whether the studio will acknowledge what fans noticed, or quietly leave the error in place, remains to be seen. For a game of this scale, the details matter. And this one was easy to get right.
