Precisely 24 hours in the past, Rockstar launched the primary highly-anticipated trailer of Grand Theft Auto 6 sooner than deliberate following a leak. Regardless of the hiccup, the trailer has been extremely profitable.
After a full day on YouTube, the video has achieved 90 million views, 8.6 million likes, and 250,000 dislikes (albeit these are hidden by default), with 706,688 feedback.
For the sake of comparability, the debut trailer of Grand Theft Auto V obtained 99 million views in the entire 12 years it has been on-line since November 2011. The primary trailer of Grand Theft Auto IV is not even shut, with simply over 8 million views.
Wanting outdoors of the GTA franchise, the most well-liked Fortnite trailer achieved 64 million views on YouTube. The PS4 reveal trailer is the most-viewed on PlayStation’s channel with 43 million views.
The Minecraft Village & Pillage Replace launch trailer that dominates the official Xbox channel is at 40 million views, whereas Tremendous Mario Odyssey holds the report on Nintendo of America’s channel, with 55 million views.
It is somewhat apparent that the recognition of the franchise has grown exponentially because the launch of the earlier mainline titles of the sequence, with Gran Theft Auto V having shipped a completely loopy 190 million models in ten years since its launch in 2013.
With such a very long time because the earlier recreation, the followers of the franchise are completely starved for a brand new chapter, desperate to see and analyze each body of the trailer, seemingly a number of occasions over.
Whereas Grand Theft Auto V has been extraordinarily profitable, it has spanned three console generations, having not too long ago landed on PS5 and Xbox Collection X|S after having debuted on PS3 and Xbox 360, dashing throughout the PS4 and Xbox One technology.
With its fanbase asking and by no means receiving additional single-player content material, having to depend on Grand Theft Auto On-line to get extra enjoyment out of the franchise, it isn’t so shocking that the hype for a complete new recreation is at loopy ranges.
Yesterday we discovered that Grand Theft Auto 6 will likely be launched in 2025, so now we have not less than 13 months (and sure extra) to attend earlier than we set foot within the renewed streets of Vice Metropolis.
In the intervening time, the one introduced platforms are PS5 and Xbox Collection X|S, with no point out of a PC launch.
We’ll have to attend and see whether or not the brand new recreation will likely be as mind-bogglingly profitable as its predecessor or not, simply as we’ll should see whether or not it’s going to handle to stay as much as its unimaginable hype. For now, Grand Theft Auto 6 actually has the avid gamers’ consideration.
