Grand Theft Auto (GTA) 6 trailer has finally arrived, and it isn’t really surprising that it is here to break records. The trailer leaked ahead of its scheduled time and date, forcing Rockstar Games to release the trailer earlier. However, that does not stop the trailer from being a record-breaking one.
In early November, Rockstar Games announced that it would be revealing the first-ever trailer soon. Announcing the 25th anniversary of the studios, the developer announced that they would be revealing the GTA 6 trailer in early December. It later revealed the exact date and time for the trailer launch.
The day of the launch arrived and unfortunately, the trailer leaked hours ahead. It’s been less than 24 hours since the GTA 6 trailer was revealed by Rockstar Games, and it has already started shattering records. The trailer video has already broken a YouTube record.
GTA 6 trailer shatters MrBeast’s record
GTA 6 trailer has broken famous YouTuber MrBeast’s record by becoming the non-music YouTube video with the most number of views in 24 hours, thus dethroning “YouTube’s king” MrBeast in the process.
In August 2023, MrBeast posted a video named ‘Extreme Olympics’ wherein he had users participate in a virtual Olympics game, awarding $250,000 to the winner. The Extreme Olympic video had managed to garner 59.4 million views. GTA 6 trailer smashed the record in less than 13 hours.
Currently, the video has 80 million views in 16 hours. Fans are naturally rooting for the GTA 6 trailer to break several other records. After MrBeasts’s record was shattered, fans were curious to get a response from the YouTube sensation.
MrBeast himself declared that his record had been shattered. “The GTA 6 trailer just broke our record for most views on YouTube in 24 hours 😮,” he wrote.
The GTA 6 trailer just broke our record for most views on YouTube in 24 hours 😮 pic.twitter.com/Wz7yngC8u4
— MrBeast (@MrBeast) December 5, 2023
The comments section was flooded with replies from fans who urged the YouTuber to take up the challenge and post another video that could break GTA 6 trailer’s record.
GTA 6 trailer has more views than Cyberpunk 2077, RDR 2, and Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom combined
Meanwhile, GTA 6 trailer hasn’t slowed down. With more than 80 million views at the moment, the trailer has also surpassed the views generated by some of the biggest games in recent times such as Cyberpunk 2077, RDR 2, and Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom combined.
CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 has 28.6 million views on its initial teaser trailer, Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2 has 23.1 million views, while The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, which is considered one of the best video games of all time, has 16.1 million views on its first trailer.
Grand Theft Auto 6’s trailer has already been watched more than the reveal trailers for Cyberpunk 2077, Red Dead Redemption 2, and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom combined. https://t.co/iclbHXtxoP pic.twitter.com/qPRNX1UOiB
— IGN (@IGN) December 5, 2023
The stats reveal that the three trailers together have about 67.8 million views. GTA 6’s 80+ million which is over 10 million more than all the three trailers combined.
That being said, the Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer 1 is now on its way to crushing the overall YouTube record for the most-viewed YouTube video in its first 24 hours. Currently, the South Korean boy band BTS holds the record for its music video ‘Dynamite’ with 101 million views in 24 hours.
