Why would Bank of America get involved in the price of GTA 6?https://www.gamespot.com/articles/gta-6-should-be-80-and-other-companies-should-raise-prices-too-bank-of-america-says/1100-6539759/
Do you not understand how banks make money for themselves?
>>738216035Don't they have ENOUGH FUCKING MONEY?
>That remains to be seen, but experts have said games not going up in price is causing major issues for the AAA game market. No significant increases help explain why publishers push DLC and microtransactions so much to help cover the costs of ballooning budgets, according to experts and industry veterans.Good. Let it die. AAA gaming as an institute is an outdated fossil. Expedition 33 and many other AA games indies have kept proving that over and over.>Data shows that people are ready and willing to pay $80 or more for games. Rhys Elliott of Alinea Analytics said even in challenging economic times, people will spend money on what they want the most, including video games. "The rising prices won’t necessarily reduce spending. The market will bear it."If this data included tendies and redditors you might as well piss on it.
>80 dollars>game is still 6-10 hoursNo.
>>738216412Reaident Evil 9 and Elden Ring being the same price is pretty alarming
>>738216035Ugh I swear all these gay fake ass "rumors" are going to become a self fulfilling prophecy and convince Rockstar that people are fine with the game being $80. Standard game MSRP took almost 15 years to go from $60 to $60 so why are people so ready for it to go to $80 only a few years later?
>>738216387>No significant increases help explain why publishers push DLC and microtransactions so much to help cover the costs of ballooning budgetsAh yes, surely they'll stop nickel and diming with microtransactions if games are $80, just like with the increase to $70.
>>738216492$60 to $70
TOTAL INVESTOR LOSSESTOTAL SHAREHOLDER DEATH
Gaming needs its own Luigi Mangione moment.
>>738216387>"The rising prices won’t necessarily reduce spending. The market will bear it."everyone bets that their THING is essential and people will pay whatever no matter how much THING costs.Time and time again, THING gets more and more expensive - eventually you hit the point where conversion fails.
>>738216468I paid the full $70 for Kirby air riders. Granted, I have gotten over 70 hours in it but if not for nostalgia reasons that price would be insane. At least Zelda totk is fucking massive.
>>738216492>so why are people so ready for it to go to $80 only a few years later?Skyrocketing inflation thanks to demented boomer presidents.
>>738216606Who is taking the bullet though? There are too many targets.
>>738216035The games industry isn't in danger, AAA just can't throw the GDP of a small country and take a decade to complete a project anymore.
imagine spending $60 or more on a fucking video game
>>738216035>"Cheese Should Be Stored In The Open At Ground Level", American Rat Association Says
If other games go up to $80 I'd buy exteremly few games day 1
im setting up an excel sheet so me and 4 friends can time share 1 copy and pay 25% of the price
>controller didn't flop>so now we need to just spam the threads out of seethewwwwwwwwwwww
>>738216035Not my problem if you want to spend 800m on a game any random non redditor could tell you is going to flop. It's even more not my problem if you continually do it and never learn your lesson. In fact i couldn't possibly give less of a fuck
they should do itI'm not gonna buy it, but tons of retarded normalfags would
GTA6 is expected to have such a potential impact on the industry that a national bank felt the need to weigh in
Because banks don't make money by just holding on to your money for a little bit. Banks invest the money they are holding on to. Bank of America is just heavily invested in Rockstar.
>>738216035They should raise it to $120.
>>738216035The shekels must flow.
>>738216387>tfw already walking away from $60 games before they even jumped to $70I can probably count the number of times I spent $60 on a game in the 2020s on both hands. The only time I think I've ever gone beyond that was buying Guitar Hero III back in 2007, controller and all.
>>738216387 Are these people genuinely fucking delusional? All these games pushing higher price points are suffering in sales
>>738216035is that nigger art official art?I guess the game is not for me.
>>738218404How are Rockstar of David going to stay in business charging only $150? It needs to be at least $180
>>738218668more chocolate cake for me
>>738216340>enough money
>>738216035The head of the kween on the left, on the body of the kween on the right
Im not buying Rockslop
>>738218815true
>Data shows that people are ready and willing to pay $80 or more for games
Remember when a product could just be sold without some scheme to alter the behavior of the people buying it?
>>738218815hear hear
AAA gaming requires GTA6 to set new trends for gaymers to buy into to survive
>>738216694TotK is also a massive asset flip. It shouldn't have been $70 either.
This board has no right to bitch if it's $80 after sweeping hard for Mario Kart World.
>oy vey the goyim refuse to consume our subversive goyslop
>>738216035
If you still buy consoles, you're part of the problem.
>>738219836>sweeping hardDoes that mean they didn't like it or they didWhat is this gay slangI don't have a Nintendo console and I didn't buy this, btw
>>738220105You really can't infer by relating it to stuff like sweepstakes or Oscar sweep?
kek baggies want their AAA stonks back up, the ones they ruined with trannynigger investment guidelines
>the AAA gaming industry is now completely dependent on GTA6 getting good sales numbers at a high price point per saleIf I owned stocks in gaming companies I'd be selling all of them as soon as possible.
>>738216716It's going to get worse. The past 2 terms and our current term are essentially the government finally taking the mask off. Every company is deep in our politicians' pockets. Every foreign political entity is also trying to influence our people through social media for the sake of those companies. Doesn't matter who takes office now. The people are mentally fucked, and the money is directing everything in a direction that abuses the common man. We'll infight more than we'll focus on what's happening right before our eyes. The American government is a reality TV show now, and there's nothing we can really do to stop it without ever waking up, but that will only spell disaster for the entire world stage so no one wants to wake up, and they desperately try to stop us from getting there by distracting us with half truths and bullshit.
>>738220280Or "sweeping it under the rug"Yes, very clear
What's it called when a certain thing gets shittier but also more expensive?
>>738216035>GTA launches with a base price of $80 and a DX collector’s edition at $300>Game is a massive success>Now every publisher thinks they can charge $80 for every release>industry crash 2.0
>>738220543enshitification
>>738216283fractional reserves
This game will cause another video game crashMark my fucking words /v/Take 2 interactive/Rockstar will die after this shit flopsThis is the beginning of the end for video games
>>738221009It’s going to be like the music industry where everyone is forced to downsize. But instead of piracy, the downfall will be due to their own greed That means the end of console generations since there will be no software able to push the hardware to advance.
>>738221448>there will be no software able to push the hardware to advance.Delusional, there are people who buy consoles just to play Fifa and CoD.
>>738216035Rescue a struggling industry? If GTA6 really is this everything game that everyone will be playing and only playing for months, that will cause a highly negative impact on the rest of the industry.
I'll buy it when it's on steam and twenty bucks in like 5 years.
>>738221009Only a western crash
>>738219836MKW is out so people already know it's great. GTA 6 is likely gonna be mid.
>>738219836MKW was only 50 bucks if you bought the bundle, which you should have.
>>738216387>The market will bear it."Didn't dorito's owner lose 1-2 billion because the market didn't bear it
>>738216387Gta simply wont be worth FOUR silksongsMaybe 3 silksongs, sure. But FOUR? no game is worth four silksongs
>>738221783Japanese publishers are safe since they have a totally different audience. 4 Niggas in a Row games aren’t having nightmares about GTA VI. But Activision and Ubisoft are even more fucked.
Can't wait for them to charge 120 dollars to play the game three days early
>>738216775never pay more than $45.17 for a computer game (adjusted for inflation)
>>738216035>>738216387GTA6 will sell astronomical amounts and none of this will matter. They should just charge $100 for the standard edition. You really think normalfags are just not gonna play this game? Be real.
>>738216035I dated a chick that looked like left with right's tits. I used to imagine I stole her from her tribe when I was proneboning her lol
Wait a couple of months and suddenly the price becomes reasonableIf you keep making FOMO more expensive, you will just shake more gamerz into waking up from it and taking the 'basic patience' pill
>>738221857Yes but it will probably never recover over here
>>738216387>ballooning budgetsI fail to see how *I* caused that or how it's my problem. Videogames should have never gone past AA.
Listen, you greedy banker, I ain't buying video games full price.
>>738222271I dont know about astronomical. GTA is in the same leagues as call of duty, fifa, etc. very surface level games.They have the "Ball and Gun" gamer market cornered for sure, but its not going to break CS2 on steam charts.
>>738216035it makes more financial sense to release at $60 or $40get the maximum amount of buyers and have your competition be driven to what they perceive as an extinction event, they will leave forever and there won't be competition again
>>738223249This.
>>738216035At this point I wouldnt be surprised if Trump declared the day GTA6 finally releases a national holiday.
>>738221867Your bias is showing.
>>738218749180, what, you have so much trouble paying 200? If I knew you had so much trouble paying 250 I wouldn't have bought it because it cost me 300! Consider yourself lucky you're getting it for the low low price of 500! So, 1000, do we have a deal?
>>738222186Is that before or after tax?
>>738220326Very much this.
>>738216035We don't make anything but gay shit nobody wants and its gotten so bad we basically have to incestuously trade with ourselves using magic funny money scams because the economy isn't even real at this point. Mister Epstein detailed in his interview how it was the only way to delay a weimer republic tier financial crisis, one that people have been warning was coming since the eighties. The only thing propping it all up is garbage like video games and AI and it will never not be fucking hilarious.
shan't be buying if i can't do missions for black queens, i NEED megan thee stallion to bully and make me worship her feet
>>738223742Ain't bias. Played like all Rockstar games. Their games just went downhill. MK is like the most predictable fun IP out there. I was only disappointed by that with Wii
>>738224570You were disappointed by MKWii but not World? Yeah, okay...
>>738216035>Donald J. Trump calling on ALL GAMERS to save the USA's economyjfc just how bad is it over there
>>738216035>fat ghetto sheboons on the cover>wants me to pay $80jej
>>738217251>Genuinely who the FUCK is out there still consuming all this pig shit slop from a trough year after yearnormgroids. i have been playing the same games basically for years if not decades. dayz, slay the spire (2 is put now but it's indie), dwarf fortress, dota, diablo 2. i did get all the fromsoft games because they're good.
>>738216035shittier games are already 80$, GTA 6 could be 100$ or even 110 and it will sell, everything else is cope
Bank of America?I think this game might be a money laundry scheme
I honestly do not understand how anyone could love GTA that much.It was always a "fun to fuck around in" game for me I'd play with friends where we'd use cheats and take turns getting high wanted levels and doing stupid shit.Genuinely what is the appeal. You just shoot cops.
>>738219836>literal "it's okay when Nintendo does it" replies
>>738216035You know what the saddest part is? When it releases for $60 there's going to be thousands glazing Rockstar "oh they could have released it for more!" "when everybody told them to release it for more, they didn't. Rockstar saved vidya"
>>738223292>but its not going to break CS2 on steam chartsEven RE9 broke it, but obviously only for a limited time cause ppl willing to spend that money are limited while thirdworld russians and sandniggers leeching on to free shit are sheer endless
>>738216035GTA is like catnip for kids born in broken homes and hood niggers. Change my mind.
>>738221947Doritos lost money because they lost the federal budget to allow poor people to buy Doritos on food stampsNobody would buy Doritos otherwise, let alone pay $6 dollars for itAlmost the majority of food companies and supermarkets are only profitable because the government literally pays to keep them openSo it just becomes>How much can we steal/raise prices from the gov before they get mad
>HORSE BALLS!!!
Do the boogie man
