r/videogames • u/HatingGeoffry • Jun 24 '26

News / Trailers / Articles GTA 6 costs $80, launches single-player only, and has no disc version on release

https://frvr.com/blog/news/gta-6-costs-80-launches-single-player-only-and-has-no-disc-version-on-release/
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u/captainhowdy6 Jun 24 '26

Cost of living has skyrocketed basically everywhere and videogames are becoming more and more a luxury , if this game leads the rest of the triple A industry into thinking $80-100 is the new normal price tag we could be looking at another crash.

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u/Jclevs11 Jun 24 '26

its okay theyll get bailed out by the US with our taxpayer money we endlessly strive for every fucking day just so we can eat some food and watch a movie we love after

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u/wowadrow Jun 24 '26

Very possible, current gaming budgets are just becoming increasingly ridiculous.

It's the element of control these companies are attempting to get on consoles, I find concerning.

If every developer and publisher go digital only with console games the secondary physical market dies and these games will be 70+ dollars functionally forever; similar to how Nintendo has been for decades.

Consistent sales on Steam and Good Old Games are what makes digital only for PC viable economically. Publishers will NOT do this.

Making console gaming worse will only shrink that market further. This may actually be the goal to have all gaming be phone only gibberish at some point.

Greater control only benefits these companies. Gaming gets worse and more costly.

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u/LmaoXD98 Jun 25 '26

IMO It is precisely because gaming become a luxury. they need to compensate from the shrinking market size, so they'll squeeze out the remaining one more (the one that can still afford gaming as secondary need instead of luxury).

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u/hep038 Jun 25 '26

There were 99.99 SNES games. so this is noting new.

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u/WoodooHide69 Jun 25 '26

Gaming companies are replacing half their workforce with AI unfortunately. They already done the calculations, the mega corps in gaming outside Nintendo have already lowered their costs of doing business by using AI. Unfortunately I don’t think this industry crash happens.