GTA 6 trailer smashes a YouTube viewership record—but still can’t compare with another …

Before GTA 6 has the chance to break the sales records we’re all expecting it to, its 90-second trailer has been busy shattering a couple YouTube records. Since Rockstar Games posted the trailer on Tuesday it’s racked up a staggering 110 million views.What’s really remarkable is that over 90 million of those views came within the first day of the trailer’s release, which makes it a Guinness World Record for the most viewed videogame reveal in 24 hours. In the non-music category of YouTube videos, that smashes through MrBeast’s record 59 million views for his video “7 Days Stranded at Sea,” a video has drawn nearly 200 million total views since it was posted in August.To put it in perspective when it comes to trailers for other big recent games, Cyberpunk 2077’s trailer from 2019 has had 17 million views to date. Starfield’s first teaser trailer has 18 million views. Hogwarts Legacy’s has 28 million views. Those are all impressive numbers, but they’re already dwarfed by GTA 6’s reveal just within the first 24 hours.And yet, despite those numbers, the GTA 6 trailer didn’t get close to dethroning BTS’s music video for “Butter,” which in its first 24 hours collected
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