Earlier than GTA 6 has the prospect to interrupt the gross sales information we’re all anticipating it to, its 90-second trailer has been busy shattering a pair YouTube information. Since Rockstar Video games posted the trailer on Tuesday it is racked up a staggering 110 million views.
What’s actually outstanding is that over 90 million of these views got here inside the first day of the trailer’s launch, which makes it a Guinness World Record for probably the most seen videogame reveal in 24 hours. Within the non-music class of YouTube movies, that smashes by way of MrBeast’s report 59 million views for his video “7 Days Stranded at Sea,” a video has drawn practically 200 million complete views because it was posted in August.
To place it in perspective in the case of trailers for different massive current video games, Cyberpunk 2077’s trailer from 2019 has had 17 million views thus far. Starfield’s first teaser trailer has 18 million views. Hogwarts Legacy’s has 28 million views. These are all spectacular numbers, however they’re already dwarfed by GTA 6’s reveal simply inside the first 24 hours.
And but, regardless of these numbers, the GTA 6 trailer did not get near dethroning BTS’s music video for “Butter,” which in its first 24 hours collected over 108 million views and now has near one billion lifetime views since its premiere two years in the past. That BTS report additionally tops the second place 24-hour finisher… which is additionally BTS, whose video for “Dynamite” caught 101 million units of eyes on its first day.
As for the way GTA 6’s trailer reveal compares to GTA 5’s trailer after it was launched again in 2011, it additionally racked up a large 100 million. It simply took 12 entire years to get them, versus GTA 6’s trailer single day seize.
Now all that is left is the lengthy, lengthy look forward to GTA 6 itself, which is not due out till 2025—and even longer should you plan to play it on PC. Time to search for one thing else to observe on YouTube, I suppose.