In simply 22 hours, the primary trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI has racked up 85 million views, breaking a MrBeast video’s report for many YouTube views in 24 hours. That rating excludes music movies, however the hype round this long-awaited sport may smash previous these data too — proper now, probably the most considered YouTube video in 24 hours is the music video for Okay-Pop sensation BTS’ music “Butter,” which was considered 108 million instances in that timespan.
The joy for Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA 6) is a decade within the making. The final sport within the franchise, Grand Theft Auto V, was launched over ten years in the past in September 2013. In accordance with Guinness World Data, it broke the report for “highest income generated by an leisure product in 24 hours,” incomes $815.7 million on launch day from the sale of 11.21 million copies. It stays the second best-selling online game of all time, falling quick solely of Minecraft.
Rockstar Video games, the writer of the Grand Theft Auto franchise, deliberate to launch the trailer on Tuesday morning. However the trailer was leaked on X (Twitter) a day early, Rockstar simply posted the trailer anyway and received the leaked model taken down.
“Our trailer has leaked so please watch the true factor on YouTube,” Rockstar wrote on X; that X submit itself has 1.1 million likes and 82 million views.
Excluding music movies, MrBeast beforehand held the report for many YouTube views in 24 hours. The stunt philanthropist’s August video, wherein he had contestants from “each nation” on this planet face off in a sequence of contests, received 59.4 million views in its first day. In one other one of many twenty-five-year-old YouTuber’s hottest movies, he recreated the Netflix hit “Squid Sport” (no, nobody was harmed in filming). Given the character of Grand Theft Auto, we are able to solely hope that MrBeast doesn’t try to recreate a financial institution theft or a jail break.
We’ll replace this submit if Grand Theft Auto manages to dethrone the BTS boys from their butter-sculpted throne — for the time being, right here’s the trailer for GTA 6, which can be launched in 2025.
