We are in 2025 and, although the industry has an eye on the expected ‘GTA VI’, which dominates Twitch remains its predecessor. ‘GTA V’, which was launched in September 2013, has been placed again at the top of the most watched video game podium on the Amazon platform, says The Verge.
In 2024 he accumulated more than 1.400 million hours seen, surpassing giants such as ‘League of Legends’ (1,190 million), ‘Valorant’ (804 million), ‘Fortnite’ (539 million) and ‘Call of Duty’ (451 million), according to official data shared by Twitch. In total, more than 15.6 billion hours of video games on Twitch were consumed globally.
Why does it continue to work? The main engine behind this phenomenon is not the story mode or the original missions of the game. The key is in the ‘GTA Roleplay’, a modality based on online servers where players assume fictional identities and build improvised stories in real time. There is no imposed narrative: each session is different and created by the community itself.
This mode, which is only available for the PC version, has made the game reinvent year after year. The role play dynamics, added to the freedom of the open world, makes it an ideal platform both to play and to generate live content.
A veteran who keeps billing. In addition to the impact on audiences, the title remains an income machine for Rockstar Games. Since its launch, the ‘Grand Theft Auto’ franchise has generated more than 8,000 million dollars. Only ‘GTA V’ has sold more than 210 million copies, which places it as the third best -selling video game of all time, only behind ‘Minecraft’ and ‘Tetris’.
A good part of that income comes from ‘GTA online’, the multiplayer mode that has grown in parallel to the base game and that maintains an active, competitive and creative community.
With an eye on ‘GTA VI’. All this happens while the world of the video game expects the launch of ‘GTA VI’, scheduled for the autumn of 2025. The current figures of its predecessor not only reflect nostalgia or fidelity of the community, but an active base that generates content, money and global interest more than a decade later.
‘GTA V’ is not just a long -lived game. It is one of the most durable cultural phenomena of digital entertainment. And if it serves as an indication, the way for ‘GTA VI’ seems to be more than paved.
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