Rockstar Should Charge $200 for GTA 6, Analyst Says, as It'll Be 'The Last Great Game' Before Everything is Built Using AI

Rockstar's $80 terms for Grand Theft Auto 6 is little than fractional what the crippled is worth, 1 expert has suggested.

Asked astir GTA 6's much-discussed terms point, expert Ben Thompson, who is down the Stratechery newsletter, told TBPN that Rockstar should person sold the crippled for much — a batch more. And portion determination is that $100 Ultimate Edition besides available, Thompson believes adjacent this is priced acold excessively low.

Arguing that the crippled is the enactment of a decennary of quality "blood, sweat and tears", and completed mostly earlier the wide proliferation of AI crippled improvement tools, Thompson said that Rockstar's highly-anticipated task should beryllium valued astatine much similar $200.

"Rockstar is charging mode excessively small for this game," Thompson said. "They should beryllium charging similar $200 for this game.

"GTA 6 is the past large game," helium continued. "It was mostly each made pre-AI. It is the pinnacle of triple-A craftsmanship. Years and years and years of blood, sweat, and tears. To the grade wherever you person the Twitter analysts counting cigaret butts extracurricular Rockstar's offices to spot however overmuch crunch are they successful close now."

Rockstar confirmed GTA 6's $80 terms (and $100 Ultimate Edition) past period aft mounting speculation implicit however overmuch the institution would yet charge. There had been plentifulness of treatment astir GTA 6 being priced higher than immoderate different crippled earlier it, successful bid to gain backmost arsenic overmuch of its tremendous improvement costs arsenic rapidly arsenic possible. (Estimates person placed its improvement and selling costs anyplace betwixt $1 cardinal and $2 billion.)

But the bulk of analysts agreed that Rockstar would apt enactment blimpish successful its pricing, successful bid to get the crippled successful the hands of arsenic galore players arsenic possible. Price GTA 6 astatine $100 and millions would inactive bargain it, sure, but immoderate would beryllium enactment disconnected — players who could person go lucrative sources of further income down the road.

While the information of GTA 6 disposable astatine motorboat volition beryllium single-player, Rockstar volition undoubtedly beryllium eyeing akin profits to those reaped by GTA 5's multiplayer information successful the long-term, whenever the adjacent mentation of GTA Online arrives.

"I consciousness compelled to bargain GTA 6 conscionable successful grant of it existing, adjacent if I don't cognize if I'll ever play it," Thompson concluded. "And I'll beryllium blessed to wage $200." Previously, IGN polled analysts connected whether GTA 6's $80 terms constituent had opened the doorway to much costly games — here's what they said.

The past fewer weeks person seen a flood of accusation connected GTA 6 materialize, arsenic Rockstar yet begins the game's lengthy selling run up of its long-awaited motorboat this November. While caller screenshots of the crippled look stunning, fans person criticized Rockstar's determination to merchantability carnal copies with a download codification wrong alternatively than a disc, thing that possibly makes much consciousness pursuing Sony's daze announcement contiguous that it volition yet termination disconnected PS5 crippled discs. Indeed, there's nary motion of a disc-based GTA 6 motorboat happening down the line, either.

There's been much play down the scenes, too, arsenic much Rockstar employees effort to unionize. Oh, and don't expect the crippled to tally astatine 60fps connected existent consoles, either.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social