My prediction is yes, they’ll ask 100$ and more, and yes, people will pay it.
Well the game could be disastrous and sell poorly after the first week.
Comment on GTA VI Might Inspire Other AAA Developers to Price Their Games at $100
absquatulate@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I’m loving the balls on studios. Yesterday we had “experts” suggesting it might cost 100 bux, and today it’s already the beggining of a trend. And the ges isn’t even out. In fact, we only have the trailer for the game and they’re already predicting prices.
My prediction is yes, they’ll ask 100$ and more, and yes, people will pay it.
But the nerve, I swear. “Yeah, our games have gotten sloppier every year. And yes, we fired tens of thousands solely for profit reasons. But line must go up, so you better start paying”
My prediction is yes, they’ll ask 100$ and more, and yes, people will pay it.
Well the game could be disastrous and sell poorly after the first week.
To be honest, they could launch the game as a 1 MB file that brings you to a black screen that says get fucked, and they would still make their money’s worth just out of the people who will blindly buy the game because they’ve been waiting for GTA 6 for so long that they bought it release day.
And then they could just move back to GTA V pretending nothing happened because the same people that would have impulse purchased GTA 6 with zero research are also the people who play GTA V religiously spending money on the micro transactions there
I think rumours about the price tag were already going before the trailer even came out lol.
Frozengyro@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Do you really think people will buy it? I’ve played most of the GTAs, but I’m not about to spend 100 dollars on a video game.
reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
You’re clearly not the target audience. Every slightly popular game has its whales. Something as popular as GTA? They’ll sell it at $100 and laugh all the way to the bank.
caseofthematts@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Something to consider. With conversion, new games are usually $80-$100 in Canada.
People still buy them.
reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Meaning this game will be MORE THAN $100 Canadian and still sell like hotcakes.
Ofiuco@lemmy.cafe 4 hours ago
Look at Pokémon games, they sell like pancakes with barely an attempt at a story, minor gameplay improvements and barely running in their native hardware, their target audience will spend whatever they are told and defend the price no matter what.
Same thing here.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
Yeah but they don’t cost $100