Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer Views Near Half a Billion

The following installment within the Grand Theft Auto franchise might be pushed till 2026, however avid gamers are consuming up each morsel of element that developer Rockstar Video games is releasing to the general public.

Living proof: Rockstar launched the second trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI on Tuesday, and the corporate tells The Hollywood Reporter that it has acquired over 475 million views throughout platforms.

For comparability, the primary trailer for the sport, which was launched all the best way again in 2023, noticed a comparatively modest 93 million views in the identical window (that trailer was a YouTube unique). The corporate claims that the trailer launch is the most important video launch of all time. Within the movie area, the Deadpool & Wolverine trailer debuted to 365 million views in its first 24 hours, whereas The Improbable 4: First Steps debuted to greater than 200 million.

The response to the trailer within the type of almost half a billion views underscores the demand for the open world recreation, a sequel to Grand Theft Auto V, which was launched in 2013.

And that demand extends to the soundtrack. The trailer’s featured music was “Sizzling Collectively” by The Pointer Sisters (written by Sharon Robinson), and Spotify says that streams of the music soared by 182,000% since its launch (no, that isn’t a typo). GTA video games characteristic music closely through the in-game radio stations, on missions and in reduce scenes.

“Grand Theft Auto cuts by means of fashionable tradition like nearly nothing else,” Sulinna Ong, Spotify’s world head of editorial, stated in a press release. “Music has been synonymous with the collection because the very starting, so it’s nice to see followers each new and established connecting with an iconic monitor on this means.”

GTA VI is by far the most important recreation on the calendar over the subsequent yr, with a launch date of Could 26, 2026 (it was initially introduced with a 2025 launch). Rockstar Video games (which is owned by Strauss Zelnick’s Take-Two Interactive) has been growing th recreation for years, and confirmed that it was within the works again in 2022.

The corporate is believed to have spent north of $1 billion on its improvement. That stated, GTA V is estimated to have grossed almost $10 billion since its launch over a decade in the past, due to frequent updates and new missions.

GTA VI is ready in Vice Metropolis, the GTA universe’s model of Miami.

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