Will GTA 6 cost $150? Probably not, but how much would you pay?

[amghwk]

As usual, I'll let the suckers to pay on Day 1. They'll pay anything, you name it.

I'm no fan of of GTA series but I got GTA V for free from Epic giveaway.

I have stopped buying games on release for almost a decade now. There's bound to be sale 50 - 90% off sooner or later. No point in wasting money paying full price on release, when there are backlogged games and free games added every week.

 

[nismo91]

As usual, I'll let the suckers to pay on Day 1. They'll pay anything, you name it.

I'm no fan of of GTA series but I got GTA V for free from Epic giveaway.

I have stopped buying games on release for almost a decade now. There's bound to be sale 50 - 90% off sooner or later. No point in wasting money paying full price on release, when there are backlogged games and free games added every week.

same. I like GTA but that doesn't mean I'm gonna spend $60 in 2014 for the GTA V. luckily enough, Epic gave it away in May 2020 and I got it. At the same time the world is struggling with covid, so naturally I put so many hours in it. less than 6 months I've managed to earn so much money that is equivalent of $600 worth of shark cards.

so no, I'm not paying $150 for an online game. especially these kind of "pay-for-ingame-cash" games.

 

[i like foxes]

I could get GTA5 for just 7-10 euro but since I dont like it I never got it .

 

[Geralt]

No money for Rockstar. Horrible company.

 

[Neatfeatguy]

I found GTA3 entertaining.
Vice City - eh, same old thing, kind of entertaining.
San Andreas - absolute trash.
GTA4 - better than San Andreas, but still sucky.
GTA5 - trash (thankfully I didn't pay for this, was gifted on Steam).

Just like with Call of Duty or Assassin's Creed or Battlefield (they still making BF games?) or Diablo games - just constantly rehashing the same crap over and over again. I won't pay for them and I won't pay for this.

Also, I've got too many other great games in my backlog that I still need to play.

 

[hwertz]

A note about worrying about people wanting to wait until games are like $15... this is not a problem. This is Techspot, not a fan forum for GTA or Rockstar. I expect you'd get very different reactions on a fan forum. Those fanbases where people immediately go out and buy the newest stuff no matter what the cost; there's plenty of other fans who wait for prices to come down and buy later. This is even true for electronics (someone must have bought those $5000-10000 HD, 4K, and 8K TVs when they first came out, but most didn't.) Just to add... I'm not concerned over photorealism in my games, I want fun gameplay. I'm not making these game companies spend $150,000,000+ on their games and it's not my problem if they do so.

That said... I think the only game I've bought in years was Road 96. What a great game. Steam and Epic have enough free games to keep me in gaming indefinitely. Plus "I've heard" game repacks exist.

Will GTA6 be $150? My guess is the base base game, no. But it's common on games now to have a regular version, then some "gold", "platinum", "deluxe", "insert term here" versions where they ship you some production art, or ebooks, or some extra in-game items, or (if they do physical shipments at all any more) a fancy box for your game to rest in. Wouldn't be surprised if they didn't have something like that for $150, and I won't be surprised if plenty of people buy it too. Maybe they'll have a $150 version that has GTA6 + whatever previous GTA versions are available for your particular console or have new enough PC versions to ship.

 

[toooooot]

90 for basic edition, 150 for premium, 800 for physical limited with a figurine of a criminal driving a stolen car with a broken window.

 

[daffy duck]

Like any game $20 is my limit. I don't care if that means 3-4 years after release. As for GTA zero interest in what this game represents.

 

[hwertz]

90 for basic edition, 150 for premium, 800 for physical limited with a figurine of a criminal driving a stolen car with a broken window.

Are Hotwheels still a thing? I'm picturing people paying through the nose for a boxed edition with like hotwheels of cars from the game and minifigs of prostitutes.. I mean various characters (I'm picturing Lego style but I suppose they could do those little 3D printed figurines like they do for D&D style games.)

 

[Durch]

Wow, these comments really show why devs and publishers have to lean on the devious tactics they use.

gamers legit wont spend money on the games. and as a hobby gaming is probably one of the cheapest ones you can have, forget speccing a pc, a console can get you in simple and have you playing games in no time.

alot of people may think its funny but imho its quite f***ed up, players want a neverending stream of games made on cutting edge tech but laugh when it comes to pricing, and then wonder why games release busted and broken.

look at other fanbases, theyll wait, spend crazy money to get the best things they can, meanwhile gamers will hurl death threats and actively look for any way to whine about something.

its truly amazing there are people still willing to even make games considering their customers are horrible.

It wouldn't be this way if it wasn't for micro-transactions in multiplayer. The majority of players who play only do so for multiplayer because it gets the newest updates.

No one in their right mind wants to pay full price for a game when the single player option never changes and they have to fork over real money to get the best in game items. It's easier to buy something rather than spend 100s of hours grinding and I won't do either so will wait until I score a deal, play single player and be done with it, but to each their own.