What do you see as the bigger pop cultural event this year... Doomsday or Grand Theft Auto 6?

I think Doomsday and GTA 6 are the big two cultural events this year, that is if Rockstar doesn't delay it till 2027.

What do you think will be the bigger event?

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TheMechanic1232026-01-14 03:46

GTA 6 for sure. Not enough build-up for Doomsday to have the same impact as, say, Infinity War

cavalier_54922026-01-14 03:48

GTA6 for sure. Even in the MCUs best times I don’t think it would come close to GTA6.

stf292026-01-14 03:49

Doomsday is hardly a cultural event. It’s just another mcu movie to anyone outside of our sphere, it has no buildup like IW/EG

Own-Papaya-42642026-01-14 04:08

No buildup? It’s literally an amalgamation of the past like almost 30 years of marvel movies. Secret wars could go even farther back with all the Easter egg potential on battleworld

stf292026-01-14 07:49

Sure. But to the GA this saga has been an amalgamation of completely unrelated films, half of them working towards a villain that’s now been written out. The only sort of buildup has been the past handful of movies, with most of them being some of the lowest performing marvel movies in recent memory

The buildup isnt there for the average joe. This movie isnt going to have any pull outside of being an avengers movie. There is no world where this has any impact remotely similar to the infinity saga

RatchetHero10062026-01-14 13:13

The general audience doesn’t care about buildup. Do you think it’s likely that everyone who saw Infinity War and Endgame had seen all 20 other movies? No. And they did just fine.

Upset-Sale68692026-01-14 03:50

GTA 6. Literally the memes and talk of it are inescapable. On the other hand, surprisingly I haven’t heard anyone saying much about the Doomsday trailers outside of Marvel fans.

Diortheking2026-01-14 03:51

GTA is bigger then every movie next year easily lol

draculabakula2026-01-14 03:52

Doomsday will be bigger this year. Infinity war sold as man movie tickets as GTA was estimated to have sold copies over a 10 year period. I huge number of people will buy GTA 6 in later years when it gets cheaper while almost everybody who sees Doomsday will see it in 2026.

ucrbuffalo2026-01-14 03:54

GTA6 currently has an estimated budget of two BILLION dollars. Think about how much money it has to make before Rockstar considers it a financial success, even ignoring all the normal markers of a game being commercially successful.

Meanwhile, movies making ONE billion dollars is still a very big deal.

Stasiss_4622026-01-14 03:55

GTA 6 for sure. Been waiting on that for a long time. and while Doomsday could be good, Marvel has been hit or miss for a while.

RatchetHero10062026-01-14 03:57

Doomsday easily. A popular film franchise is a much greater cultural event than a game. I think many are forgetting that in this thread. Gaming is a more niche interest than film, no matter how big GTA is.

Own-Papaya-42642026-01-14 04:02

Pretty sure it’s the other way around these days. Even my parents know GTA

RatchetHero10062026-01-14 13:10

Disagree. Every demographic is going to see Doomsday. Not every demographic plays games, let alone a mature, violent one like GTA.

ChardComfortable39322026-01-14 04:03

Idk GTA 6 keeps getting delayed, dimming my hype further.

It REALLY REALLY needs to throw Gta V into the trash in terms of advancement and storytelling/game mechanics. It needs to be unbelievably good.

NeverNotAnIdiot2026-01-14 04:07

Doomsday, because we all know GTA ain't coming out this year.

elevensbowtie2026-01-14 04:36

Who knows, maybe GTA6 will be delayed again. That means it’s Doomsday by default.

Endgam2026-01-14 05:10

GTA6.

[GTA5 sold 220 million to date.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games) People expect GTA6 due to the wait and hype to sell even more.

Love the games or hate 'em (*I don't like sandbox games.*) it is in fact a bigger cultural event than, let's be honest, a movie of which every announcement reeks of desperation after the Kang plan imploded.

*Face it guys. Video games have become a bigger deal than movies to the point where video game based movies do way better than movie based video games*.

SeekerVash2026-01-14 05:43

GTA6.

If Dune 3 is so unafraid of Doomsday that it's willing to launch on the same day, Doomsday is not a cultural event. If it was going to dominate the box office, every movie would be putting 3-4 weeks between Doomsday and themselves.

BZenMojo2026-01-15 20:54

GTA 6 is funny because no one who worked on any other game at Rockstar is at the company anymore. So it's a game by some random people who make DLC for an 11 year old game published by a brand.