GTA 6 Becomes Second Most-Viewed Video Game Trailer On YouTube (And You’ll Never Guess Who’s First)

AdminJanuary 29, 2024

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It was November 8, 2023, Rockstar Games broke the internet by announcing the release of a trailer for its next GTA game for the next month. On December 4, the publisher released the first trailer for the new GTA 6. In just 24 hours, the video was viewed over 90 million times on YouTube. For comparison, GTA 5 trailer took 12 years to reach the same score.

GTA 6 trailer overtakes Minecraft (but remains far from leader)

Today, the GTA 6 trailer has reached a new milestone on YouTube. In fact, the video has over 168 million views today. The Minecraft trailer released on December 6, 2011, more than a decade before GTA 6, has received 167,800,000 views. One might think that the Rockstar Games game trailer is the most watched video game trailer of all time today. Well, not at all…

Indeed, this stratospheric score allows GTA 6 to be on the second step of the podium, ahead of Clash of Clans, Team Fortress 2 or even its predecessor Grand Theft Auto 5… but behind Subway Surfers. WHO?

Worse still, the GTA 6 trailer doesn’t even hold half the record for most viewed video game trailer on YouTube, as the Subway Surfers trailer has over 361 million views. and his “Huge“As a certain French actor would say.

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Posted online in 2012, the trailer of Subway Surfers is therefore in the lead on YouTube, it is rather common in the end that it is one of the most popular mobile games of all time, since the latter will accumulate more than four billion downloads today. Despite its advanced age, as of August 2023, Subway Surfers was still the fifth most popular Android game.

As for Rockstar Games, we still have time to see it coming, as GTA 6 should benefit from other trailers between now and its release, such as “Trailer 1“From the first video. Let’s remember that this game is not expected on our PlayStation and Xbox consoles before the year 2025.

In the case of Red Dead Redemption 2, we had to wait a whole year between the airing of the first trailer and the second trailer. GTA fans will have to be patient, which has been a habit for many years.