Netflix's GTA 6 Extended Look Becomes Platform's Top-Viewed Title with 31.1 Million Plays

Netflix’s exclusive 27-minute “Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look” debuted on Thursday, Aug. 27 at 3 p.m. ET and quickly became the streaming platform’s most-watched title for the week, gathering 31.1 million views by Sunday, Aug. 30. The special, listed under the English-language film category, topped the weekly Top 10 rankings in 87 of the 93 countries Netflix monitors. It features in-game footage from PlayStation 5, highlighting the characters Jason and Lucia as they navigate a fictionalized Vice City and offering a preview of the game’s narrative.

Rockstar Games later uploaded the same video to YouTube, where it had accumulated 17 million views. Netflix’s view-count methodology differs from YouTube’s, counting a household once regardless of repeats, while YouTube registers any playback start as a view. “The Whisper Man” held the runner-up spot on the English-language film list with 23.2 million views, while the top TV documentary was “Death of the Pastor’s Wife” at 19 million views.