GTA 6 Could Cost As Much As $100, Some Hope; Analyst Clarifies Comments

The most corpo thing I've ever heard. I love how he mentioned wages as if they've followed the same inflation as everything else. Sit down, suit.

Takes Two makes money by ripping off players on their GTA online, It’s better for them to have more players buy the game at a lower price than less players at a higher price.

They ripped people off for 8.5 billions with GTA online so far and are getting 200 millions a month every month.

I see many uptakes with price hike. Itll take a bit of time for producers and consumers to find a new common ground - but by all means go for it.

Potentially helps companies to do larger bets on less safe games. Lower sales price leads to how all bigger financial bets are safe, and thus as marvel as possible.

As a 40 year old, my preference isnt the same as a kids playing cod or fortnite ie. Games that resonates with me are quite rare, and to have more of them, i woudlnt mind paying a much steeper price.

Imagine a AAA returnal ie

The only game worth $100 is Phantasy Star 4.

I am not paying for any game over 69$, ever. Above 59 is already, most of the time, a deal breaker for me.

If games prices go to 100 euros I'll give up buying video games. We're already paying too much for basically everything in Europe anyway. Our currency means we're paying probably more than anywhere in the world for games and consoles. 550 euros for 4 year old tech and will be 5 year old tech later this year. It's ridiculous and it'll be the nail in the coffin for gaming for me. They haven't released any decent single player first person shooters in a very long time now so my favourite genre has been neglected. Call of Duty doesn't count because those games can be finished in a day and then what you're supposed to play what is essentially virtual paintball with strangers around a few maps for hours which I never had any interest in. If they're not careful video games will go through a recession.

I am for free market capitalism (within reasonable limits). Companies can charge what they want, customers can choose to buy, that's how it should work. And there are compelling arguments about video game prices not keeping up with inflation.

My issue with a price hike is that extra money absolutely will not mitigate mass layoffs. And none of the extra money will go to workers, the money will b earmarked for executive salaries and bonuses along with dividends for shareholders.

Realistically, all big games absolutely should be $100 or more, if we’re going off of current economics. I’ve said for years that they are the one thing I can think of that hasn’t kept up with inflation, whatsoever. Games were $50-$70 on PS1 and N64. There were even some $100 games on SNES. Sega Genesis games were $40-$50. We have been very, very lucky to not already be paying $120+, regardless of what the complainers say. If games do go up to that $100 mark, it will be fair; however, that’s when I’ll be done buying anything close to launch day. I already almost never buy a game until it’s on sale. I’m not a kid. I don’t need to play stuff as soon as it comes out.

I can see a game the size of a mainline GTA game being justifiable at $100 launch price. What I can't see is $100 becoming the new standard AAA launch price. GTA games tend to be huge and technically complex games, even compared to other AAA games from the same generation. If GTA6 did cost $100, and that became the new standard launch price for all AAA games, I think a whole lot of other AAA games aren't worth buying until they go on a pretty good sale.

Happily pay that. Games 30 years ago cost $80. It's crazy the amount of work, money and time they put into these things. $100 to play a game that will bring you happiness for years and years. Well worth it and well justified.

**** them.

The corporate oligarchy seeks to normalize exorbitant price hikes through a calculated campaign of preemptive propaganda. By initiating the discourse two years in advance, they aim to desensitize the public to the inevitable, conditioning society to accept these outrageous costs as the new norm. This insidious manipulation unfolds before our very eyes, as the public is subtly conditioned to acquiesce to the whims of profiteering elites.

Complicit in this manufactured consent are the mainstream media, whose journalists often act as unwitting mouthpieces for these corporate behemoths. They regurgitate propaganda without critical analysis, further bolstering public acceptance of these seemingly inevitable moves by predatory businesses.

I've never understood why so many people are obsessed with the GTA games. They took a mediocre driving game, a mediocre shooter, and a mediocre adventure game and crammed them together. They're still all just mediocre games you just don't have to load a different game to experience each part of the mediocrity.

I'm on PC so I'm already waiting (probably) a year or more. No way in hell I'm paying $100 for a game.

Also the amount of game journalists seal clapping this crap should show you that they are going along with anything for access.

They'll be asking for blood transfusions next.

They could average $100 and more between special editions and DLC over years. The second part assumes that people will love this game...

Good for them!

Also won't buy 👎🏻

They always say this and then it's on sale straight away in shops and like a quarter of the price 6 months later..... Why physical needs to stay.

So he makes his argument worse by saying, “well, bus fare, gas, rent, etc is up.” Yeah buddy, but those are necessities, video games are entertainment. Oh movie tickets are up? And how are they doing? Many theatres are in danger of closing down, not a very good example.

He "hopes" the price point will increase because it will help the industry? Since when has exponentially increasing the price of a product translated in to higher sales numbers?

Cool.

I'll get it when it's on sale for $20, or given away for free on EGS.

I don't know who this Matthew Ball is, but is seems a pretty safe bet this man has lost vast sums of money in the stock market, at the casino, buying-in to scam emails, and more than likely, just walking out of his house towards his car.

Right... the video game industry as a whole... could benefit by rasiing the price of games by over 40%.

How does someone wrtie a 219 page report and come up with that kind of nonsense???

I bought eight amazing games during the holiday Steam sale for $85.

There's zero chance I'm paying f$80 for GTA6 or any other game. Games keep getting longer, more complicated, and more buggy. No thanks.

Damn. Home boy wrote hundreds of pages arguing that people aren't buying AAA poo piles because they aren't expensive enough. Next paper is going to be 1000 pages on how Kraven would have been a blockbuster movie if only tickets were $50...

I wont be paying it. I haven't bought a game day one in a few years now, I have no issue waiting till its on sale, or sail the high seas.

Jargon jargon jargon, bs bs, jargon jargon jargon, and THAT'S why GTA6 being $100 is a GOOD thing.

This man isn't even speaking English. He's just speaking corposhill nonsense specifically designed to numb your brain into clicking "Install" when the time comes. We're not the reason the games industry, specifically "aaa", is faltering. They are. There isn't enough bs and jargon in your lexicon to convince me that giving your CEO's a fat bonus off the back of a $100 price tag is somehow going to "fix" the industry.

Here's the part you're NOT understanding, Mr. Balls: I don't CARE if the "aaa" industry "rebounds". Hell, I hope it doesn't. I've seen what these asshats do with all of our money, and I'm not impressed with the results. Giving them MORE isn't going to fix or rebound anything. It's just going to make things significantly worse and there's mountains of evidence to back that up. Overindulging greedy, gluttonous pigs does NOT make them LESS hungry. It's also not the customers job to pay extra to fix THEIR past mistakes. Aaa can burn, for all I care. Better games and companies will rise from their ashes, and I'm honestly looking forward to it.

That said, you're making me wait a year for a PC release anyway, so I'll be more than fine with waiting 2 years for your overrated sequel to go on sale before I buy it. Fomo is for chumps.

im not paying 80-100 dollars for a video game

So let me see if I can get a handle on what this brilliant analyst is telling us:

1) Raise AAA prices to $70, while promising more immersive, more stable, and more creative experiences.

2) Make repetitive, derivative, subpar garbage games, filled with ideological nonsense and written by idiot children in adult bodies.

3) Don't pay those idiot children, or anyone else on staff, enough money to raise a family, buy a house, or do anything other than subsist on city-living prices.

4) Go out of your way to chase fads and attach abusive business practices to every. single. game, like microtransactions, preorder promises that you know won't turn out as planned, and games-as-a-service.

5) Watch the AAA industry crash, talented employees quit, and untalented employees get fired off by the thousands, while indie titles made by dedicated groups with less members than a volleyball team rake in millions by producing tight, thoughtful experiences that respect the players.

6) Blame low pricing for the problem in the AAA industry.

That about right?

I am interested in a GTA game for the first time in over 20 years~! V did nothing for me and the last I played were 2 for the PS2 before V.

The price won't go up it you dummies don't buy it

It will have the opposite effect. It will just stop people buying new games as often. It will make buying new games inaccessible to many people which shouldn’t be the case.

If Game developers need more profits then micro transactions is the model, but not at the expense of the initial product.

$100 u.s. dollars??? for sequel that still play similar to the 1st one? ball must be smoking some good $hit.

Perhaps making good games that people want to play would help more.