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GTA Online shuts down on PS3 and Xbox 360 on December 16, 2021

Rockstar announces the end of GTA Online on PS3 and Xbox 360, plus several Max Payne 3 and L.A. Noire services on those consoles. Story Mode is unaffected.

This article is from June 17, 2021. Some details may have changed since then.

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Eight years after its 2013 launch, GTA Online set an end date for its original versions. On June 16, 2021, Rockstar announced that the PS3 and Xbox 360 servers would shut down on December 16, 2021.

Key dates

Date

What changes

September 15, 2021

GTA Online Shark Cards stop being sold on PS3 and Xbox 360

September 16, 2021

Max Payne 3 web stats, multiplayer and leaderboards, and L.A. Noire web stats, shut down on PS3 and Xbox 360

December 16, 2021

GTA Online shuts down on PS3 and Xbox 360, including Social Club stat tracking

What doesn't change

The shutdown only affects online play: GTA V Story Mode keeps working on those consoles, as do the Max Payne 3 and L.A. Noire campaigns.

Why

Rockstar pointed to its focus on the PS4, Xbox One and PC versions and to preparing GTA V and GTA Online for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, then planned for that fall and eventually delayed to March 2022.

What it meant

It was the end of an era: GTA Online was born on PS3 and Xbox 360 in October 2013, and those versions had gone without content updates for years. After the shutdown the game spanned fewer generations at once — though the 2022 current-gen launch opened a new version split that PC wouldn't close until GTA V Enhanced.