GTA 6 Trailer 1: the reveal that broke YouTube
Premiered December 4, 2023 — 93 million YouTube views in 24 hours, a Guinness World Recordofficial
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Video: Rockstar Games (official channel)
The facts
| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Premiere | December 4, 2023 — released early after a leak, roughly a day ahead of its announced Dec 5 slot |
| Runtime | 1 min 31 sec |
| 24-hour views | 93 million on YouTube — Guinness World Record for most-viewed videogame trailer in 24 hours, and YouTube's biggest non-music video debut at the time (previous record: ~59.4M, MrBeast) |
| Music | Tom Petty — "Love Is A Long Road" |
| Platform | YouTube exclusive at launch — its 93M figure is a single-platform count, unlike Trailer 2's cross-platform total |
What it confirmed at the time
- Lucia — the series' first female protagonist since the top-down era, shown in a prison jumpsuit and on the run.
- Vice City — the game returns to Rockstar's Miami, in the modern day, within the wider state of Leonida.
- A 2025 window — the trailer closed with "Coming 2025," a date later moved twice before landing on November 19, 2026.
Where it sits in the archive
Trailer 1 was the reveal; Trailer 2 introduced Jason and the story, and the Extended Look showed 26 minutes of the game itself. Back to the full trailer archive →