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GTA 6 Trailer 2: The Biggest Video Launch of All Time
No warning, no scheduled premiere, no pre-rendered cinematics — just 475 million views in 24 hours. Here's the full story of GTA 6's second trailer.
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GTA 6 Trailer 2 released on May 6, 2025, four days after Rockstar announced the game's first delay, with zero advance warning. It's all in-engine footage captured on PS5, and it hit 475 million views across platforms in 24 hours — still the biggest video launch of all time, beating every movie trailer ever posted online.
How It Dropped
Four days earlier, Rockstar had delayed GTA 6 from its original Fall 2025 window to May 26, 2026 — the first of two delays. Trailer 2 arrived with no announcement, no scheduled premiere, nothing. The marketing equivalent of apologizing with fireworks. It was all in-engine footage captured on PS5, not pre-rendered cinematics, which Rockstar confirmed directly.
Records It Broke
475 million views across YouTube, TikTok, X and other platforms combined in the first 24 hours put Trailer 2 ahead of every movie trailer ever posted online, including Deadpool & Wolverine's 365 million and The Fantastic Four: First Steps' 200 million-plus debut. For comparison, Trailer 1 (December 2023) hit 93 million YouTube views in 24 hours, a record at the time on its own. Watch it via Rockstar's official GTA VI site.
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May 6, 2025, four days after Rockstar announced the game's first delay, with no prior warning or scheduled premiere.
475 million views across all platforms combined in its first 24 hours — still the biggest video launch of all time, ahead of every movie trailer ever posted online.
Yes. Rockstar confirmed all footage was captured entirely in-engine on PS5, not pre-rendered cinematics.
It beat Deadpool & Wolverine's 365 million and The Fantastic Four: First Steps' 200 million+ debuts, both previously among the biggest trailer launches ever.
On Rockstar Games' official YouTube channel and rockstargames.com/VI.