A year after GTA VI trailer, fans still await Rockstar updates

Rockstar’s first Grand Theft Auto VI trailer did not ease the wait. It set the pace for everything that came after, with a leak pushing the studio to release Trailer 1 early on December 5, 2023, and a campaign that immediately turned into one of the biggest videogame unveilings ever.

The reveal was simple and loaded at once: GTA VI was coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S in 2025, and Rockstar placed the game in Leonida, including the neon-heavy pull of Vice City. Then the numbers took over. Guinness World Records said the trailer logged 90,421,491 views in its first 24 hours, while Rockstar and Take-Two later said it passed 100 million views in just over a day. By December 2024, coverage had the trailer above roughly 224 million YouTube views, proof that the first look stayed alive in the community long after the initial rush.

What did not arrive for months was a second trailer. That silence became its own part of the story, with fans, streamers and gaming outlets filling the gap with guesses about what Rockstar might show next. The official record, though, stayed narrow: Trailer 2 did not land until May 6, 2025.

Rockstar’s schedule then shifted again. On May 2, 2025, the company moved GTA VI from a Fall 2025 window to May 26, 2026. On November 6, 2025, it delayed the game once more to November 19, 2026, saying the extra time would let the team finish it with the level of polish players expect. Take-Two continued to describe GTA VI as a blockbuster launch and kept reaffirming the release date even as speculation kept growing around more trailers and pre-orders.

That leaves a clear audit of the year after Trailer 1: the viral first look happened, the view count kept climbing, and Rockstar eventually returned with another trailer and two delays. What still has not changed is the basic shape of the wait, because the first trailer made GTA VI feel huge, but it never made Rockstar move faster.