The Fnac Price Leak
Fnac Portugal's five-SKU price listing, debunked by billbil-kun via EAN barcode prefixes and disproved by the real June 25 prices.
- Retailer
- Fnac Portugal
- Listing
- Five PS5 SKUs, coded RS1-RS5
- Listed prices
- €89.99 to €199.99
- Debunked
- June 21, 2026, by billbil-kun (EAN prefixes)
- Actual prices (June 25)
- $79.99 Standard / $99.99 Ultimate
Days before official pre-orders opened, the Portuguese arm of retailer Fnac listed five Grand Theft Auto VI PS5 editions, and the episode became the cleanest case study yet in how retail placeholder data turns into a fake leak.
The listing
Around June 21, 2026, Fnac Portugal carried five PS5 SKUs internally codenamed RS1 through RS5, priced in clean steps: €89.99, €99.99, €109.99, €119.99 and €199.99, each with a November 2026 release window. The numbers looked plausible for a big-budget release and were attached to a real store listing, so many fans and some coverage treated them as genuine.
The debunk
On June 21, 2026 the Dealabs insider billbil-kun, whose record on pricing is strong, pushed back with a technical and specific argument: the EAN barcodes attached to the SKUs did not match Take-Two's usual prefixes. On that basis he described the listed prices as "random ones", stand-in values populated by the retailer's own system rather than figures handed down by the publisher. Retailers build product pages and reserve SKUs ahead of announcements, and those entries carry temporary barcodes and placeholder prices until the real data arrives.
The vindication
When Rockstar opened pre-orders on June 25, 2026, the real prices were $79.99 for the Standard Edition and $99.99 for the Ultimate Edition, matching billbil-kun's caution rather than the Fnac tiers and closing the case. The lesson generalises: verify the origin, distrust round placeholders, respect proven track records, and wait for official word. See price history for how pricing actually unfolded.