Video game fans were impatiently awaiting it: a first trailer for the next installment of “Grand Theft Auto” (GTA) was released on Monday, December 4, ten years after the release of the previous opus of the very popular and controversial game. ‘action. “GTA VI” will be released in 2025.
The video uploaded by Rockstar Games to X (formerly Twitter) and YouTube shows a return of the video game to “Vice City” – the Miami-inspired setting – and, for the first time, a female main character. L’Express reveals the key figures for the video game that has been breaking all records and setting screens ablaze since 1997.
410 million
The number of units sold in total by the franchise since its launch. GTA V alone has seen continued success since its release in 2013 with 190 million units sold through September this year, making it the second best-selling game in history behind Minecraft (over 300 million copies).
3
The number of days it took GTA V to exceed $1 billion in revenue in 2013. A record allowing it to become the fastest-selling entertainment product in history, according to its publisher Take -Two Interactive, parent company of the Rockstar Games studio.
92 million
The number of views of the GTA V trailer on YouTube, making it the most viewed trailer for an action game to date.
Seven hours after it was posted online on Tuesday around 06:30 GMT, the GTA VI trailer – offering a return to Vice City, the setting inspired by Miami – had been viewed more than 41 million times on YouTube.
5
The number of playable female characters in the series – all from the first episode in 1997, until the highly anticipated announcement on Monday that one of the main characters in GTA VI is a woman. A first in the history of the franchise.
Because if there have been other attempts at female characters in derivative versions, limited editions and the online version, GTA had always been embodied by male heroes, before the sixth episode.
90
The number of videos showing footage from the development phase of GTA VI that were stolen and leaked online in 2022.
4,000
The number of articles written about the game through 2009, according to Guinness World Records, which called it “the world’s most controversial video game series”, a category which online commentators have suggested is had been imagined only for GTA.
75
The number of square kilometers of the GTA V map, which takes place in the fictional city of Los Santos and its surroundings. This area is by far the largest in the GTA series, although it is overshadowed by other open-world video games.
861
The number of actors involved in voice acting for GTA IV far exceeds that of all other games, according to the 2009 Guinness World Records. The games have used celebrity voices such as rocker Axl Rose, actor Samuel L Jackson and rapper and actor Ice-T.