It's hardly a secret that Sony and Rockstar have brokered a deal for GTA 6, but it appears that deal has prevented Xbox from even sharing the launch trailer at the same time.
PlayStation's socials ahead of launch were plastered with Leonida branding, GTA 6 is front and center on the PS5 storefront, there has been a complete absence of Xbox logos in the latest trailer, and almost every ad insists the PS5 Pro is the best platform to play on. But the most absurd part of this deal is that Xbox just posted the launch trailer a full week after PlayStation, well after everyone had already watched it.
In fairness, Microsoft did develop Internet Explorer.
Xbox clearly had its hands tied and could hardly skip sharing the launch trailer for GTA 6, but that week-long delay means that practically every comment and repost is now poking fun at the console giant for being late, laughing about how "NUTS" the PlayStation marketing deal must be. It doesn't help that Microsoft's version ends with a standard Series X/S logo and the stock fanfare, whereas PlayStation got a custom Vice City outro.
The view count gap is just the...
