GTA 6 trailer 3: the 26-minute Extended Look came third

No official Grand Theft Auto VI video is called Trailer 3. On Rockstar Games’ product page, checked on August 28, 2026, three videos are listed in this order: An Extended Look, Watch Trailer 2, Watch Trailer 1. The third big video, released on August 27, 2026, is titled Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look, runs 26 minutes 48 seconds, and was captured entirely in-game on a PlayStation 5. 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, without ever numbering a trailer 3.

The three big videos, in the order they went out, ahead of our block-by-block account of the last one:

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

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? As of September 22, 2026, and despite Zelnick’s promise, no further official video has been dated. The only new dates the campaign has produced since are for street advertising: IGN reported on September 11, 2026 a Miami Beach setup running October 15 to December 31, 2026, and NBC 6 Miami reported on September 16, 2026 that banners were cleared for the same window in downtown Miami. What the Miami Beach vote actually allows sits in its own article.