New ‘GTA VI’ Extended Look Will Be Exclusive To Netflix For Six Hours

GTA VI

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There were a batch of rumblings yesterday that today, August 6, would bring a caller GTA VI trailer, arsenic it seems astir that clip to motorboat a 3rd spot arsenic we get person to the game’s November merchandise date. Well, location wasn’t one, but location was thing else, and it’s…interesting.

Rockstar has announced that Grand Theft Auto VI will person an “extended look” 3 weeks from now, connected August 27. The twist present is that it will premiere first connected Netflix astatine 3 PM ET. Don’t person a Netflix subscription? Well, it will spell online connected YouTube six hours later astatine 9 PM ET.

Netflix is very excited astir this “first of its kind” partnership, and the truth that it goes up connected YouTube six hours later is not mentioned successful the Netflix property email aliases ensuing blog post. This is what Brandon Riegg, VP of Netflix Nonfiction Series, had to opportunity astir the deal.

“Grand Theft Auto reveals person go taste moments successful their ain right. The anticipation and fandom astir Grand Theft Auto VI is unprecedented, and we’re honored that Rockstar Games has collaborated pinch america to debut the adjacent portion of the Grand Theft Auto story pinch Netflix members first. It’s a reflection of what we dream Netflix is becoming: a spot wherever the astir eager storytelling, from immoderate medium, tin find the biggest imaginable audience.”

I mean, he’s not wrong, these reveals are taste events. The GTA VI trailers person not been tied to immoderate peculiar games showcase, Rockstar conscionable drops them, they get a 100 cardinal views, and everyone talks astir them indefinitely. Fans, however, person wondered why trading for the crippled has felt beautiful muted extracurricular of 2 trailers conscionable complete 4 months earlier launch. It would look this arena is going to alteration that.

It’s a…unique idea. The six-hour exclusivity model is benignant of funny, arsenic I person to wonderment really overmuch Netflix paid for that. You tin stake during those six hours it will beryllium fighting thousands of bootleg YouTube copies. Come to deliberation of it, premiering the trailer connected Netflix will forestall anyone from embedding that trailer successful an article, myself included. So bask the uh, nexus to the Netflix page, I guess.

This seems for illustration it’s decidedly much than conscionable a trailer, immoderate benignant of vidoc going deeper into the crippled and its systems, thing we person not seen astatine each extracurricular of insider rumors of what kinds of things whitethorn beryllium coming. And location really haven’t been that galore of those pinch immoderate weight to them.

If this thought is simply a large hit, Netflix will nary uncertainty stock the numbers aft it airs. I’d opportunity they mightiness effort to do this again, but location is nary different crippled moreover remotely the size of GTA VI. I mightiness deliberation movies could work, perhaps, for illustration an Avengers: Doomsday trailer, but evidently that would beryllium on…Disney Plus.

So, spot you successful 3 weeks, aliases 3 weeks and six hours, depending connected your subscription status.

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