A Miami video turns out to be a GTA 6 gameplay clip

HobbyConsolas dates the two Only in Dade Instagram clips to 12 November. According to the outlet, the first shows a line of cars crossing a traffic light next to the Kaseya Center, the real arena in Miami, and the second is a drive along Ocean Drive. Both are said to recreate real videos that went viral some time ago.

The outlet adds that some users still believe the footage is AI-generated. One of them claims real photos exist with the same camera angles. HobbyConsolas does not quote any statement from Rockstar about the clips.

A second clip has surfaced on the same account, Only in Dade, and again many people took it for real footage from Miami. Notebookcheck says it shows several sports cars and customized classics rounding a corner outside the Sahara Arena, led and followed by black police cars. The police sports car from the first video is among them.

Unlike the first one, Rockstar has not shared it in its Instagram Story so far, and the outlet notes the studio still has not officially confirmed that the footage comes from GTA 6.

GamingBolt adds two details the article doesn't have yet: the street in the clip is Ocean Drive, one of Vice City's best-known roads, and the Only in Dade video uses a song from GTA 6: The Album. According to GamingBolt, that detail, along with the West Coast Customs video Rockstar is recreating, points to a planned marketing campaign.

The outlet also says another person on the sidewalk is filming a similar scene from a different angle. Rockstar still hasn't issued an official statement about the clip.

The Florida Instagram account that first posted the clip is Only in Dade, according to Vandal, which says Rockstar shared it afterwards. The outlet describes a Vice City street seen first from the back seat of a car and then from the sidewalk, as if someone were filming on a phone.

The footage is shot from a first-person perspective, but Insider Gaming and Vandal both warn that it is promotional material and says nothing about how a possible first-person mode would work. Rockstar has not addressed such a mode.

Rockstar Games has been putting out marketing for the GTA 6 release, and most of it came with an official stamp. This time the clip looked like a neighbor's phone footage. It nearly got away with it.

It's a clip of eye-catching cars parked on what looks like a Miami street, and it's actually in-game footage. Kotaku reports that on November 11, a Florida Instagram account that regularly posts videos from people living in and around Miami uploaded it as if it were real.

The French account @gta6hubfr, which covers GTA 6 news, flagged it on X the same day. Its post says the clip was a possible in-game sequence that Rockstar reshared on its Instagram Story. Kotaku reaches the same conclusion: it's GTA 6 footage made by Rockstar.

The outlet adds that Rockstar shared the clip as a Story on its official Instagram on Wednesday and liked the original post.

Kotaku says Rockstar rebuilt inside the game a video that went around social media last month. In the original, Rockstar and the garage West Coast Customs were in Miami showing off custom cars made to promote GTA 6's launch.

That clip of cars parked on the street went viral because many people said it looked like GTA 6 in real life. Now it runs the other way. The fact that some viewers took it for real says a lot about how the GTA 6 cars look on screen.

Some fans think so. Kotaku says that if you look closely at the sidewalk, it seems Jason and Lucia are recording the second part of the video, and the outlet allows that it could be them.

At first, Kotaku notes, some people thought the clip was real, others that an AI made it and others that it was faked some other way. Rockstar hasn't said who appears or how the clip was put together.

The setting is a Miami street recreated in Vice City, and that's the part that fooled people: nobody doubted the place, only the video.

For you, the change is that Rockstar is showing GTA 6 in the format of an everyday social video rather than a trailer. It gives you a closer idea of how Vice City will look when you play, though neither Kotaku nor Rockstar gives the recording platform or the resolution of the clip.

Rockstar has already shown footage captured on a PlayStation 5: Trailer 2, at 2:47, in May 2025, and An Extended Look, at 26:48, on August 27, 2026, according to Rockstar itself.

A practical tip: if a video of cars in Miami lands in your feed this week, check which account posted it and whether Rockstar shared it.

Rockstar hasn't explained the clip or said whether more pieces in this format are coming. Only Rockstar can clear that up, on its official Instagram or in its Newswire.

The next clue arrives on November 19, 2026, when GTA 6 launches on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S and you can compare a Vice City street with the Miami one yourself.

Was it a real video from Miami?

No. According to Kotaku, it's GTA 6 footage made by Rockstar Games, even though the Florida account posted it as if it were a street recording.

Who shared the clip?

Rockstar posted it as a Story on its official Instagram on Wednesday, November 11, and liked the original post, according to Kotaku.

When does GTA 6 come out?

November 19, 2026, on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, according to Rockstar Games.