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TheGrand Theft Auto 6reveal trailer will be 91 seconds long, with its official runtime being confirmed by YouTube. This bit of insight into the much-anticipated video premiere arrived shortly after the fandom realized thatRockstar may have sneakily revealed theGTA 6trailer date back in June2023.
The developer recentlyconfirmed that theGTA 6trailer will debut on December 5, at 9am ET. Three days later, the company shared a YouTube Premiere link to the upcoming video. First introduced in 2018, the Premiere feature essentially treats scheduled YouTube videos as pre-recorded livestreams, allowing users to view them together in real time.
According to the publicly available data provided by the YouTube application programming interface (API), thefirstGTA 6trailerwill be one minute and 31 seconds long. Nearly 50,000 fans have already opted to be notified about the livestream within two hours of its YouTube Premiere page going live. The actual number of people who will be watching the video’s debut in real time will ostensibly be much larger than that. Rockstar’s social media activity indicates that the trailer will only premiere on YouTube.
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The YouTube Data API also confirms that the firstGrand Theft Auto 6trailer won’t have any regional restrictions and will hence premiere globally. The same source reveals that Rockstar already labeled the video as licensed content, but that’s a fairly standard industry practice that doesn’t necessarily imply YouTubers won’t be able to monetize content that incorporates the footage from the trailer.
GTA 6 Trailer May Not Have Much Talking Going On, If Any
One final bit of info about the clip revealed by the YouTube API is that Rockstar uploaded the 91-second video with no closed captions. The majority of the company’s existing YouTube videos do come with CCs, which could indicate that theGTA 6reveal trailer won’t have much talking going on, if any. But since the developer routinely uses closed captions even for videos free of talking, there’s a chance that it still intends to add them to the upcoming trailer closer to its premiere.
For added context, the 2016 reveal trailer forRed Dead Redemption 2also debuted without CCs, despite featuring some spoken remarks near the end. Meanwhile, the firstGTA 5trailer did offer closed captions, presumably due to being much more dialogue-heavy. In terms of length, the upcomingGTA 6video will be slightly longer than theRDR2andGTA 5reveals, which ran for 68 and 84 seconds, respectively. The trailer itself is set to premiere just days after someone claiming to be afriend of a Rockstar employee’s son leaked some allegedGTA 6footage.
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Set to be the eighth mainline title in the long-running series, Grand Theft Auto 6 is being developed by Rockstar Games.
