GTA 6 trailer 3: the Launch Trailer came out October 15

No official Grand Theft Auto VI video is called Trailer 3. The third video with the word Trailer in its title is the Launch Trailer, posted on Rockstar Games’ YouTube channel on October 15, 2026: about 90 seconds, “captured entirely in-game from a PlayStation 5,” with new music from the duo Justice. What it shows has its own article. Until that day, this page counted three big videos, as Rockstar’s product page listed them on August 28, 2026: An Extended Look, Watch Trailer 2, Watch Trailer 1. An Extended Look, released on August 27, 2026, runs 26 minutes 48 seconds, and the word Trailer is not in its title.

Trailer 1 arrived on December 4, 2023 and runs 91 seconds; Trailer 2 followed on May 6, 2025 at 2 minutes 47. Both carry the word Trailer in their official title on Rockstar’s YouTube channel. An Extended Look does not. Rockstar went from Trailer 2 straight to An Extended Look, 478 days later, then to the Launch Trailer 49 days after that, without ever numbering a trailer 3.

The four official videos, in the order they went out, with our block-by-block account of the Extended Look:

Video	Date	Length
Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1	December 4, 2023	1 min 31
Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2	May 6, 2025	2 min 47
Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look	August 27, 2026	26 min 48
Grand Theft Auto VI Launch Trailer	October 15, 2026	about 1 min 30

Fans spent that wait begging for a trailer 3, as Kotaku noted on August 6, 2026. The press kept the word once the video landed: Polygon’s headline reads “GTA 6’s third and final trailer is here, locking down release date,” and French outlet VideoDL called it “la troisième bande-annonce de GTA VI.” The trailer 3 label is a convenience for press and players, not a word Rockstar has ever used.

What Rockstar said

Rockstar announced the video on August 6, 2026, calling it a first-of-its-kind partnership with Netflix: it premiered on the service on August 27, then landed six hours later, free, on YouTube and the game’s site. Netflix published the official description: “Captured entirely from in-game footage on PlayStation 5, this extended look at the next Grand Theft Auto showcases the biggest, most immersive evolution of the series yet. Grand Theft Auto VI plays best on PlayStation 5. Coming November 19.”

The video reached every Netflix subscriber worldwide, subtitled in thirteen languages. Netflix quoted Brandon Riegg, its vice president of nonfiction series: “Grand Theft Auto reveals have become cultural moments in their own right. The anticipation and fandom around Grand Theft Auto VI is unprecedented, and we’re honored that Rockstar Games has partnered with us to debut the next part of the Grand Theft Auto story with Netflix members first.” Rockstar let creators share commented clips, but barred anyone from posting the full 26-minute video.

The audience showed up. Netflix reported 31.1 million views in four days, from August 27 to 30, and the top spot on its English-language film chart in 87 of the 93 countries it tracks, a number VGC also carried on September 2. On YouTube, where the count works differently, An Extended Look passed 17 million views on Rockstar’s channel alone by September 1, while Trailer 1 sits at 294 million and Trailer 2 at 181 million as of September 3, per Gamekult.

Take-Two had warned this was only a start. On August 10, 2026, CEO Strauss Zelnick called it “one of the hors d’oeuvres” and added, “There’s appetizers, main course and dessert to follow.” GTA 6’s marketing runs about five months, against the roughly 22 months Rockstar spent on GTA V.

What Rockstar didn’t say

Rockstar never released the runtime before the premiere; the 26-minute figure was first spotted by players in the Netflix app’s listing, per Kotaku. The counter on the official YouTube page, read on August 28, 2026, gives the exact value: 1,608 seconds, or 26 minutes 48 seconds, where the Netflix listing rounded to 26 minutes.

An Extended Look shows no GTA Online and says nothing about multiplayer, the BBC noted on August 27. No PC version was announced either: the game stays on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S for November 19, 2026.

So what about number 3? The next video came on October 15, 2026, the first day of the Miami Beach street campaign that IGN reported on September 11, 2026. The Launch Trailer opens on the Keys, per Eurogamer, and trades the licensed songs of the first two trailers (Tom Petty, then the Pointer Sisters) for a new Justice composition, per PC Gamer. What the Miami Beach vote actually allows sits in its own article.