netflix crashed the second gta 6 extended look went live

GTA 6's Netflix trailer premiere was so popular it temporarily crashed the streaming service

Netflix folded the second the Extended Look was supposed to go up. People on the app got hit with a "Something Went Wrong" screen right at 3pm ET, which is honestly the most GTA launch thing that could happen before the game even launches.

Eurogamer's got the details. The rush to watch Rockstar's video basically brought the streaming service to its knees. I was refreshing the Netflix app like an idiot and got the error twice before it finally loaded. My group chat was a mess of screenshots of the same red error text.

What gets me is Rockstar put this on Netflix first as some kind of event, and the platform couldn't handle the traffic. Netflix handles live events all the time, but a video game trailer takes it down. That's the pull this game has.

For anyone who missed it, the Extended Look is also hitting YouTube and rockstargames.com at 9pm ET tonight. So if Netflix is still being weird, you've got another shot. I'm probably going to watch it again on YouTube just to see the chat lose its mind.

This is the third official video after the two trailers, and the hype is unreal. Pre-orders have been open since June, $79.99 for standard, and people are still losing it over a video. November 19 can't come fast enough.

Anyway, Netflix getting bodied by a game trailer is funny, but also kind of expected. Rockstar could announce a new font and the internet would break.

Source: Eurogamer · Curated content.