{"id":831507,"date":"2026-08-31T03:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T03:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/831507\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T03:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T03:56:10","slug":"gta-vi-extended-gameplay-preview-attracted-over-4-million-live-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/831507\/","title":{"rendered":"GTA VI Extended Gameplay Preview Attracted Over 4 Million Live Viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been known since Rockstar released the first trailer for GTA VI that the upcoming action game would have a massive impact on the gaming industry, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/350837\/gta-vi-expected-to-cross-usd-4-5-billion-in-sales-in-launch-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">analysts have predicted week-one sales of $4.5 billion<\/a> when the game launches in November. Following Rockstar&#8217;s GTA VI showcase at Gamescom, reports have emerged that, between Netflix, YouTube, and Twitch, nearly 4 million users tuned into the live show\u2014a number that had ripple effects across the internet. <\/p>\n<p>For starters, in the two days since the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tJbzMqJGH4k\" target=\"_blank\">GTA VI Extended Look video launched on YouTube<\/a>, it has racked up over 14 million views, while Streams Charts, a tracker for Twitch stream data, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/streamscharts.com\/news\/gta-vi-gameplay-reveal-viewership\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> 3,970,738 peak stream viewers of the Extended Gameplay stream across both the official and unofficial commentary live streams and watch parties for the three hours it tracked viewership.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Netflix and Twitch users reported issues logging into their respective platforms due to increased traffic, while Cloudflare claims that Netflix saw 16% increased traffic during the event, and Twitch and YouTube saw a respective 12% and 39% traffic increase. The latter was likely at least partially due to how ubiquitous YouTube embeds are in news reports and official publisher websites, since Rockstar&#8217;s own website saw a global traffic increase of 172% following the trailer&#8217;s launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been known since Rockstar released the first trailer for GTA VI that the upcoming action game would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-831507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}