GTA 6 Digital Preorders Already Topped 6 Million and $594 Million, With PlayStation Accounting for 74%, Sensor Tower Estimates

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• Radical_Socialist_t00t@lemmy.ca ⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  If overcompensating was a game

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• thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why do people pre-order digital download-only games again?

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  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Predatory practices that rely heavily on FOMO.

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  • iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Exclusive content and more commonly recently, early access.

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  • creamfresh@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Preload and play from minute one.

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  • mohab@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I do not care for GTA or Rockstar, and don’t see myself ever touching any of their games, but I believe everything we know about games goes out of the window in this scenario.

    GTA6 is evidently a cultural event, and many will want to be there minute one whether they regularly play video games or not.

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• I_Jedi@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t see how a game can live up to all this hype.

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  • cybervseas@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Doesn’t have to. Already made bank. People are preordering a game which they could just wait a day and download on day one.

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  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    At this point it doesn’t matter.

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  • TheRealKuni@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Say what you will about Rockstar and their shitty, worker-exploiting, union-busting practices, but their last two new games, GTA5 and RDR2, were some of my favorite games of all time.

    I can’t imagine the game being anything other than phenomenal.

    (Doesn’t mean I’m going to buy it for either my Xbox or my PlayStation.)

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  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How can it not? For most people, it will be a newer and better GTA 5. And that’s all it needs to be. From the looks of it, it seems to even surpass that expectation. Maybe lot of people will be disappointed in the beginning, but only because they don’t know the entire game yet. It this does not turn out to be a Cyberpunk 2077, then based on Rockstars track record, we can expect them to deliver.

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    • froh42@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m waiting for a few days after release, to check what the real plyers say. Still - if it’s at gta v level without too many bugs, i will buy. Yeah and I’m aware, I’m just renting it for the privilege of playing it this year.

      If I find another fun game, I might also wait.

      If I want to play it in the future and lose access - I’ll set sail on the high seas.

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    • PlantJam@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Even cyberpunk was eventually good supposedly. I was excited about it but skipped it due to the launch issues and just never got around to actually getting it.

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  • iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The previews and leaks have looked pretty stunning. I’m not buying in at full price, or on PS5, but I do think it looks incredible.

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    • Kalothar@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well With the decomp / recomp train that hit this month, it’ll be ported to pc witin days

      Guarantee there are teams lining up for that right now.

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• dudesss@piefed.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nah, fuck Rockstar. Never buy one of their games again.

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  • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Yeah I’ll just wait for the inevitable PC recompilation + multiplayer, and then enjoy GTA Online for free. (And then pirate the PC version when it comes up as a double fuck you to Rockstar.)

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• iuseasahibtw@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s just games, there’s no reason to treat this like it’s some sort of plot to mind control people. Most gamers just want to have fun and aren’t autistic when it comes to physical media or game ownership because it’s not that serious.

  Let people have fun, let companies make bank, and just relax.

  This constant performative outrage is what turned me away from the social aspect of gaming. The conversation has turned mostly political and away from the joy of the hobby.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The job of the hobby is being diminished by a lack of ownership.

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  • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If they can rent games then they can borrow my dollars as long as I have the game.

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• n20@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The more telling number is the average: $594M over 6M preorders is about $99 each, well above a standard edition price, so a big share must be premium editions. Worth keeping in mind it’s a Sensor Tower estimate rather than Rockstar’s own figure, so I’d treat the exact 74% PlayStation split with some caution.

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  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean Rockstar CEO, Strauss Zelnick, a few months ago was literally quoted bragging about how the deluxe version was outselling the standard version since they removed the full game from the standard version.

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