Civilization 7 price tiers are $69/99/129This would be for the standard edition. So the equivalent for GTA6 would be like $99/$129/$159.
The extra prices get you more DLC basically. It sucks but that's the way things are now.
GTA6 is basically part of the 99% of games that would have a sizable audience willing to pay that much, and even theyd have a big drop off in the number of people willing to buy at full price.FTFY.
greedy f***ing companyYeah Take Two is especially egregious cause you know they're make billions from whales buying in game currency in GTA5 online
Yeah Take Two is especially egregious cause you know they're make billions from whales buying in game currency in GTA5 onlineThey also trashed single player DLC in favor of shoveling out more garage tier online slop to drive profits. Company isn't worth a damn thing. Would love GTA to flop so hard they go under, but I know it won't.
Most thought Tears of the Kingdom was worth its price, myself includedIt's also worth noting that Tears of the Kingdom is the only Nintendo game that launched at $70 and no other game of theirs has followed that price bump, meaning they felt that TotK was the exception to the rule.
They also trashed single player DLC in favor of shoveling out more garage tier online slop to drive profits. Company isn't worth a damn thing. Would love GTA to flop so hard they go under, but I know it won't.It's not going to flop, but I hope at the very least it underperforms greatly. Even if it does Red Dead Redemption 2 numbers, which would still be astronomical, it would still underperform because of how disgusting the budget is, not to mention the factor on how GTA online will carry over to 6. If the online on 6 blows, people might just stick to V. But this is pure optimism, it's going to sell a shitzillion copies even at $100 and Take Two will be rewarded for being the greediest motherfuckers on the planet.
FTFY.
You think 99% of games would have a significant chunk of their audience willing to pay a hundred bucks?Absolutely. We as gamers have zero self-respect.
This would be for the standard edition. So the equivalent for GTA6 would be like $99/$129/$159.
$100 US? Which would be about $120 CDN plus another 13% in taxes? No thanks!No, more like 145.
Here's a protip for devs...stop making games with blockbuster movie budgets. You're already saving tons going digital. The industry is growing but via mobile and f2p. Not AAA console games. Look at stellar blade. Sold a ton and didn't cost AAA bucks but looks the part.There's also just an issue of unnecessary spending and mismanagement. FFVII Rebirth and MonolithSoft's output on Xenoblade shows that it's far more profitable to keep the same teams instead of firing people after every project, keep the same engine, reuse assets when it's viable to, and just let developers make what they want to make instead of succumbing to corporate and stockholders.
This isn't unprecedented though.
RPGs from the cartridge era were around $100 (or more) adjusted for inflation. Dragon Warrior 4, Chrono Trigger, Lufia 2, and Final Fantasy 3 were all around the $70-80 MSRP figure in the early 90s. Phantasy Star 4 on Genesis apparently cost $99 when it came out. I definitely paid $80 plus tax for FF3 because I had to combine some Christmas money with my sister to go in together and buy it. Bought it at Software Ect., anyone remember that place? I think Gamestop maybe bought them.
People will pay it for a game like GTA6.
I could go to a yard sale and pick up a copy of MegaMan X for 15 bucks when it was selling in store for quadruple that.
I'm not interested in it to start with, but I'm even less interested if it launches at 100. That's 145 CAD, and then you add taxes on to that, close to 170 dollars. Yeah, big middle finger if Rockstar does that.
I really wish people would stop bringing up stupid shit like this. Outside of a game you really wanted to own, most people just rented from places like Blockbuster. So that initial high price point was pointless. Not to mention that back then we had a crap ton of yard sales where people were selling games for a fraction of their retail value. I could go to a yard sale and pick up a copy of MegaMan X for 15 bucks when it was selling in store for quadruple that.
Stupid shit? I can assure you that people paid that price and it was years before you could just find nice games at a yard sale. Renting an RPG back then was also dumb because most people couldn't beat them in two days.