1 Surprising Game Trailer Still Has More Views than Grand Theft Auto 6

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As Grand Theft Auto 6's official reveal trailer moves up the charts of the most viewed game trailers on YouTube, an unsuspecting mobile hit still claims the number one spot. Having dropped early last month, the long awaited first trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6 lit up the internet and finally gave fans of the franchise a glimpse at the breathtaking world of modern Vice City and its surrounding areas.

Over a decade after its ever-popular predecessor, GTA 5, Grand Theft Auto 6's in-engine trailer impressed with its visuals as it introduced both of its protagonists, Lucia and Jason. Previously rumored to be brother and sister, the trailer all but confirmed that they may in fact be a couple. The 90-second teaser quickly blew up on YouTube, swiftly surpassing the trailers of Rockstar's past masterpieces such as Red Dead Redemption 2 and Grand Theft Auto 5. Even trailers of other hugely anticipated juggernauts of the past several years, like CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077and FromSoftware's 2022 mega hit Elden Ring were left in the dust.

Now, Grand Theft Auto 6's trailer has surpassed that of another super popular franchise on YouTube: Minecraft. With a whopping 168 million views, the trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6 has become the second most viewed video game trailer of all time behind the trailer for Subway Surfers. A mobile game, Subway Surfers is an endless runner which launched over a decade ago in 2012, following in the footsteps of the massive mobile success that was Temple Run the year prior. Since then, Subway Surfers has managed to maintain relevancy across mobile storefronts, and its trailer has earned a whopping 361 million views on YouTube.

It's astonishing that Grand Theft Auto 6's trailer has been able to rack up nearly half of Subway Surfers' decade-old trailer views in just a month and a half. Considering GTA 6's 2025 release window, the trailer still has about over a year until the game is supposed to launch. In that time, it's not hard to imagine the trailer