Streams Charts: GTA 6 reveal peaked at 3.97 million viewers across reaction streams, Eurogamer reports

Reaction streams of GTA 6's gameplay reveal peaked at 3,970,738 viewers, according to Streams Charts data reported by Eurogamer on August 29, 2026. Eurogamer said no gaming stream in 2026 had drawn more. The figures came from the analytics firm, not from Rockstar or Netflix.

Streams Charts said 9,038 streamers covered the Netflix premiere of An Extended Look on August 27, with 5,227,798 hours watched between them. Eurogamer said that beat the 3.81 million peak for Summer Game Fest 2026, and June's Nintendo Direct and State of Play shows.

On where people watched, Eurogamer said Twitch carried around 44 percent of hours watched, with YouTube on 34.8 percent and Kick on 20.2 percent. The biggest single channel was that of Spanish streamer IlloJuan, with a peak of 233,520 viewers, a record for his channel. Rubius followed at 191,056 and IShowSpeed at 177,887.

Eurogamer also reported that heavy demand caused technical problems on both Netflix and Twitch, and that some viewers were reportedly unable to watch for 40 to 50 minutes. Streams Charts tracked more than 100,000 chat messages over the three hours it analysed. Most were neutral, and Eurogamer said much of the negative chat was aimed at the outages rather than the game. Eurogamer added Cloudflare's figures: Netflix's global traffic rose 16 percent on previous weeks as the video aired, and traffic to Rockstar's own website rose 172 percent worldwide.

These numbers count people watching streamers react, so they do not measure the audience on Netflix itself, and they rest on one firm's tracking, whose method the report does not explain.

Netflix later gave its own figure: 31.1 million views from the August 27 debut through August 30, as Video Games Chronicle reported.