The Hollywood Reporter: ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Trailer smashes past 475 million views in first day
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DeepEnigma
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This is going to be insane on release. They'll crush the 16m first day of sales record of GTAV.
With ease.
With ease.
The Fartist
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= 475 million day one sales
ComputerBlue
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This is why they aren't rushing it, it's going to make more money in a single week than 10 years worth of Ubisoft releases. Or not, I have no idea what the fuck I'm saying but it'll make a lot of money.
Hawk The Slayer
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Trailer 2 got a insane amount of views but it was still under 100 million views on youtube so where did the other 300+ million views came from? Twitter? Tiktok, TV? ads?
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PurePlatinum
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Easily the biggest entertainment release of our lifetimes...until GTA7 someday.
RodriGames40
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Even 1/5 of that is fucking insane... Rockstar chill the fuck out, damn!= 475 million day one sales
GigaBowser
The bear of bad news
best sellsing videogame ever i am known for my industry predictions
Judge Magister
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Now, imagine if it had Gameplay..
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Grildon Tundy
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This game is to gaming like the Super Bowl is to the NFL: even if people don't watch a single regular-season game, chances are they tune in for the spectacle.
GigaBowser
The bear of bad news
only game that can gets me off fat ass to plays on tv ahahaha
Kuranghi
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You're moving your fat ass to convene with a cavalcade of fat asses
March Climber
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Day 1:
Hawking Radiation
Wants to watch an Event Horizon porno
I hope the various platforms can handle the online traffic cause I forsee that and a lot of other problems getting your hands on the physical copy of this game on release day.
kpopSuperstar
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Didn't GTA V do like 10 million in the first day?
This is gonna do 30 million.
This is gonna do 30 million.
Kuranghi
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For this reason I will preorder the physical, I'm sure there will be copies sent to shops outside the preorders anyway so I can have one put aside for me at my work worst case.
Then worst thing will be waiting for install and potential day-1 patch.
Simpdimples
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Crazy numbers, excited for it even though every mission is prolly on rails trash with 5 minute A to B exposition dumps and it plays like your character is covered in cement.
Schmendrick
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Gotta admit I never quite understood why GTA is so extremely popular, or R* games in general. I have more hours in sth like NiOh 2 than in all R* releases of the last 25 years combined.
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Lagspike_exe
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This is going to do absolutely insane numbers. I think they will go crazy with Online as well, they can milk that for 15+ years.
Jinxed
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wont do more than minecraft
MrCunningham
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May 26, 2026 = the day that the internet died and all work places and schools became closed due to a mysterious new and unidentifiable virus.
Trogdor1123
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And no one will be able to play any games at allDay 1:
Trogdor1123
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Probably not but Minecraft will run on a toaster and has been out forever
Mercenary09
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It's likely going to set the record for fastest selling game but this thing would be so much BIGGER if it was on PC at launch. It being stuck on PS5 and Xbox Series will have that record much smaller than it could've been.
The Fartist
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Sure it will be a smaller record, but that's a record only Rockstar will be able to break with GTA VII. So it doesn't matter in the end.
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__SteakDeck__
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Probably not because of Tariffs. PS5 and PS5 Pro price is most likely going to increase.
__SteakDeck__
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This will have Avengers Endgame level hype.
Tiago Rodrigues
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Youtube? That platform has been going downhill for almost a decade. Twitter, tiktok etc yeah.
Mibu no ookami
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What will be interesting is how this impacts holiday sales.
Hawk The Slayer
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Releasing on PC would give it a bigger starting boost for sure with how big PC gaming has become but their current way would actually generate more sales in the long run because if it was a PC launch than those PC players won't have a reason to buy it on the console since they already got the best version of it on PC. But now since it's not on PC than 1/3 of the PC gamers might try to buy a console just to play it early. And once it comes to PC they'll be double dipping. This also effects current console players who would also want to double dip once they see the PC version. So this whole thing is mainly to get as much players to double dip as possible cause they know lots and lots of people will do it.
bitbydeath
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Rockstar will wait to give it a big upgrade and release it alongside the PS6 for maximum sales and double-dips.
Jibran#one
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This has the potential to crash the internet on release date , imagine like 15 20 million people on day 1 downloading 100z of gb data.
balls of snow
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lughnasadh123
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GTA is a religion. Even with tariffs this is going to hard push PS5 Pros.
EDMIX
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4 of those were mine.
3 of em are mine lol
1 for me (will fuck around and get that collector's edition)
1 for my sister who is a massive GTA fan
1 for my cousin who recently graduated as a gift
GTAVI about to be that gaming global holiday lol
Hawking Radiation
Wants to watch an Event Horizon porno
It's going to be wild for sure. I've not bought any current gen consoles (and you can't count a Series S as one lol) so I'm definitely picking up a PS5 Pro for this.
I'm not going to wait a year or more for the PC version.
Mibu no ookami
Banned
I mean this kind of discounts pre-loading which is going to be big here combined with a lot of people buying physical.
Represent.
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Thats 5.95% of the entire Earth's population.
Nearly 6% of the world's population watched the trailer.
Nearly 6% of the world's population watched the trailer.
KaiserBecks
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MrCunningham
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Don't get me wrong, the Youtube numbers are really good for this trailer. It is now the third most viewed video on Rockstar's channel. X.com is still great for advertising. 106+ million views (or interactions, as I think it is called?) on Rockstars x.com page. Instragram numbers are strong. Facebook; maybe not the best for promotional stuff like this, but it still pulls in numbers.
Add up all of the below numbers, I count around 300 million views. I'm not sure where the other alleged 100+ million views could come from. Maybe Rockstar Games includes the 'let's watch' and reactions, as well? But, I guess they also have much better metrics than I do.
I haven't even gotten into the South Korean, Japanese, Chinese, or India social media/ youtube equivalent sites. Or the Spanish websites. That is a whole other thing.
Maybe when I add up global view counts, it could be closer to 500 million views? That doesn't mean half a billion people saw these ads. There are a lot of re-watches.
Youtube:
- Rockstar: 84+ Million Views
- IGN: 2.7+ million Views
- Rockstar Games Brasil: 468k views
- Playstation: 464k views
- PlayStation España: 312K views
- GameSpot : 178K views
- Xbox: 124K views
- Rockstar Games France: 119K views
- PlayStation France: 47K views
- Playstation Brazil: 11K views
- GameTrailers: 9.6K views
X.com:
- Rockstar: 106+ million views
- Playstation: 3.6+ million views
- XBOX: 1.9+ million views
- IGN: 884K views
- Rockstar: 66+ million views
- Playstation: 486k views
- IGN: 303k views
- Rockstar: 11+ million views
- IGN: 1.7+ million views
- Playstation: 57.7k views
TikTok: To be honest... I don't use TikTok. I don't have an attention span short enough to have any interest in the site yet. I cannot find a full upload of the trailer from Rockstar. Lots of hot takes and reaction videos.
BlueSky: Rockstar has a Bluesky account. But like most Blusky accounts, it is empty. Also, Bluesky's video upload seems to be limited in size, unless you host your own videos from an external server.
Rumble: 4.10k
Dailymotion: Doesn't have a view counter.
IGN: They have a video uploaded to their main website. But no view count.
GameSpot: Same as IGN. But no view count is made public.
Note: No ChatGPT or any other form of AI was used. I literally did all the ground work myself and went to every site and took down numbers the old fashioned way.
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awwr999999
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Understanding why Rockstar's a big deal requires a physical PS2 with GTA 3, GTA Vice City, GTA San Andreas and Manhunt.
Rockstar made violent interactive AAA cartoons with a "Rockstar Aesthetic" that only exists fully on the PS2's unique HW.
The obvious reasons for Rockstar's aesthetic downgrade post-PS2:
1. Rockstar lost the RenderWare engine used for their PS2 games.
2. Sony abandoning the PS2's proprietary GPU architecture for Nvidia with PS3 and then AMD with the PS4/5.
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Gen.Grievous
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Bots. No way half a billion people watched it in 24 hours.
Still the day one sales will be monstrous even without PC.
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