GTA 6’s Extended Look Led Netflix’s Weekly Chart With 31.1 Million Views
The 27-minute presentation led Netflix's weekly chart after a six-hour exclusive window, ranked No. 1 in 87 of the 93 countries it tracks, and outpaced the service's top movie and TV show.
Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look drew 31.1 million views during Netflix’s four-day tracking window from August 27 through August 30, making it the most-watched title across the service that week and putting it at the top of Netflix’s English-language film list. Netflix published the result in its September 2, 2026 Top 10 update. The 27-minute presentation also ranked No. 1 in 87 of the 93 countries Netflix tracks, giving Rockstar’s next open-world crime game a remarkably broad audience before its planned November 19, 2026 release.
‘GTA 6’ Extended Look Tops Netflix Charts With 31.1 Million Views in Four Days.
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Netflix categorized the presentation as a movie. Its 31.1 million views put it ahead of The Whisper Man, which recorded 23.2 million views after premiering on August 28, and Death of the Pastor’s Wife, the week’s most-watched TV show with 19 million views. The presentation led The Whisper Man by 7.9 million views.
That result still fell short of Netflix’s biggest English-language debut. Stranger Things season 5 holds that record with 59.6 million views in its first week, but GTA 6’s performance places a game presentation alongside the platform’s largest scripted and unscripted releases.
Netflix and YouTube count views differently
Netflix totals the hours watched and divides that number by the runtime of a movie or show. With the extended look running for about 27 minutes, 31.1 million Netflix views represent roughly 14 million hours of viewing during the tracking period. Two people who each watch half of the presentation would count as one view under that calculation, so Netflix’s figure is closer to the number of full-runtime plays than to a count of individual viewers.
Rockstar premiered the extended look on Netflix at 3 p.m. EDT on August 27. Watching the first showing required an active subscription, and the presentation remained exclusive to Netflix for six hours before becoming available for free at 9 p.m. EDT on Rockstar Games’ YouTube channel and the Grand Theft Auto VI website. The short window gave Netflix the first release opportunity without keeping the free online launch off the internet for days, a rollout detailed in our Netflix premiere coverage.
The free extended-look upload had 17 million total views. YouTube began counting a view after one second of playback on August 24, so a viewer who starts the video and stops after 10 seconds still contributes a view. Netflix’s 31.1 million and YouTube’s 17 million therefore are not direct equivalents, although Netflix’s total is nearly twice as large across the first four days.
Earlier Grand Theft Auto VI trailers show how widely platform comparisons can vary. The first trailer reached 93 million views in its first day as a YouTube exclusive. Trailer 2 reached 19 million views within a few hours and now has 181 million YouTube views.
Rockstar previously said the second trailer received more than 475 million views across all platforms during its first day, without detailing which platforms and channels were included.
GTA 6’s launch editions and price
Grand Theft Auto VI will release on November 19, 2026, in digital and physical editions. The physical launch version will contain a code in the box rather than a disc. The standard edition will cost $80, while the $100 Ultimate Edition will include various in-game rewards. Buyers of the standard edition will be able to upgrade to the Ultimate Edition at any time.
A crash hit Netflix at one point as viewers tried to watch the extended look, but the presentation still delivered nearly half an hour focused on Jason and Lucia and their lives in Vice City.
Netflix also highlighted that all of the footage was captured in-game on PlayStation 5. The service framed the sequel’s challenge by describing Grand Theft Auto V as the biggest entertainment launch of all time.
The presentation arrived after several alleged Grand Theft Auto VI leaks. Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive are working with Microsoft and Discord on legal action against the person behind the alleged leaks, as detailed in our report on Xbox’s response.
Take-Two Interactive has not disclosed what it received from the Netflix arrangement, so the public numbers cannot show how much money the deal generated. They do show the reach Netflix secured from a short window around a high-profile game reveal.
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Grand Theft Auto VI
Developed by Rockstar Games
Grand Theft Auto VI heads to the state of Leonida, home to the neon-soaked streets of Vice City and beyond in the biggest, most immersive evolution of the Grand Theft Auto series yet.
- Genre Shooter, Racing, Adventure
- Platforms Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5
- Perspective First person, Third person
- Modes Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
- Release November 19, 2026
- Publisher Rockstar Games, Take-Two Interactive
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