Countdown
Releasing 19 Nov 2026 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
At launch
The switchover is a configuration change, not a rebuild.
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A daily job watches each platform for the Grand Theft Auto VI category to appear. The moment it does, it is activated and the collectors start sampling it — likely weeks before launch, when trailer and preview content starts going live.
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Profiles are per creator, not per game. Every chart, follower curve and schedule heatmap built up over Grand Theft Auto V stays intact, so day-one Grand Theft Auto VI numbers have a baseline to be compared against.
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Peak trackers and milestones start a fresh run for the new game: first to finish the story, biggest single launch stream, longest unbroken session, fastest to a million hours watched.
19 Nov 2026 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S — 112 days from now.
The tracker switches its tracked category from Grand Theft Auto V to Grand Theft Auto VI automatically. Every creator profile, chart and leaderboard stays in place — they simply start recording the new game.
Because the people who will dominate Grand Theft Auto VI streaming are overwhelmingly the people streaming Grand Theft Auto V and its roleplay servers today. Tracking them now means that on day one there are already 9,408 creator profiles with months of history behind them, instead of a blank slate.
Kick, Twitch and YouTube. Twitch and Kick have full official APIs, so their coverage is complete. YouTube is quota-limited and weighted toward the largest streams — when its daily allowance runs out we keep following channels we already know through public feeds and mark the figure as partial rather than letting it silently drop. We would rather cover three platforms properly than more of them partially, which is why TikTok, publishing no live-viewer API at all, is not listed.