Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer Beats GTA 5 in 60 Days

Video of GTA 6 Trailer 2 courtesy of the Rockstar Games channel

The GTA 6 Trailer 2 has continued accumulating views at an extraordinary pace. As of early July 2025, it has officially overtaken the first GTA 5 trailer’s 13-year YouTube total. Notably, the trailer edged past the GTA 5 trailer’s 123.04 million views accumulated since its November 2011 debut, currently showing approximately 123.2 million views on YouTube alone. What’s even more impressive about this acceleration is that the GTA 5 trailer needed over a decade to reach its total, while the trailer for the sixth GTA game achieved it in under 60 days. As a result, Rockstar’s official YouTube channel reveals that the second GTA 6 trailer has become its second most-viewed video ever.

The anticipation surrounding GTA 6 continues to grow, with this viewership milestone highlighting that. Even Rockstar’s expectations have been drastically outpaced by the speed of this achievement. Furthermore, this accomplishment stands out especially when considering the game’s recent delay announcement to May 26, 2026. Ultimately, the franchise’s enduring cultural dominance is best shown by the GTA 6 trailer 2’s explosive performance, which suggests the game is poised to shatter entertainment sales records upon its eventual release.

Despite the second GTA 6 trailer’s impressive feat of overtaking GTA 5‘s debut trailer, it still faces a massive viewership gap before claiming Rockstar’s top spot on YouTube. Currently, the trailer sits at around 123 million views, and to surpass the first trailer’s staggering 263 million count, it’ll need to gain another daunting 140 million views. Although that deficit in viewership seems enormous, fans still have nearly a full year left until the game’s May 2026 launch on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. Unfortunately, Rockstar is likely to stay quiet for months, meaning impatient fans will have to settle for hitting replay on this trailer until fresh footage finally drops.

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Meanwhile, dedicated players keep uncovering astonishingly intricate details hidden within the visuals of the second GTA 6 trailer, not even two months after release. Across both trailers, the graphical fidelity is obviously next-level. However, one eagle-eyed fan recently spotted something particularly mind-blowing: a vehicle’s touchscreen interface displayed such fine detail that actual, visible fingerprint smudges appeared on its digital surface. With discoveries like this alongside ongoing Easter egg hunts, fans can find compelling reasons to revisit the trailer repeatedly. Given these factors, Trailer 2 has the potential to close the viewership gap with its predecessor, matching  (if not surpassing) its numbers by the time GTA 6 finally launches next year.