If Take Two doesn't price GTA I at $80 or more they will fail the whole industry and the [western] gaming industry will collapse, so says Bank of America.
>>739102884>jews lie to steal money
>>739102884ill pay free fiddy
>>739102884>bank of america takes the voiceMaybe pope Leon should also say something about GTA and its pricing too.
>game needs to be $80because gta online isn't a thing that is making billions a month, right? jews still believing they are smart in 2026 lol
>>739102884 >Paul Tassinobody gapes harder for wallstreet than this lil nigga
Bank of America should stay the fuck out of our business, always gotta stick their big noses where they don't belong.
>>739102884youre right it is going to collapsegood luck sellin an 80 dollar game you dont have enough bots or money to launder
>>739102884Everyone will agree that it should be $300 minimum
>>739102884This discourse has been absolutely retarded. GTA could cost 150 and it would still sell, that doesnt mean any other game could sell for that price.
What's the purpose of Bank of America when Federal Reserve exist?
>>739103434Stop using logic. That's illegal.
>>739103280because there aren't as many hands in the pie (retailers, distributors) getting a cut from digital in-game purchases, so they only care about the box price.
>>739102884Anon they will be selling it at $40 by the first month because people will not be buying consoles just to play the game. It will be a woke mess and collapse the industry calling for investigation. Revealing the political agenda in the industry at the expense of customer requests of the product. This will destroy woke culture in 2026 / 2027 and I look forward to their end. Someone is going to take the blame and there will be such a huge campaign on it because of the 2 billion cost. The clap back will be marvelous.
Just because the reality of the cost of the product and expectation should be high. Doesn't merit a price point that effectively doubles the standard if it is unearned. GTA6 will be a crusade. It will be unsatisfying and most likely micro transaction disgusting Valve will be laughing under its protection of the worst sinners of it. The legal debate would be. If you want to sue Valve fix GTA6 first without being jewish.
>>739102884hope it collapsed then, and that these fucking leeched die with it.
>>739102884GTA6 can get away with being 80€. Most other games don't, especially now that everyone is cutting corners with generative AI and still asking 70€ for the privilege to play their slop.
>>739102884Not reading the article and don't know if it's honest or not but the reason it's GTA6 that "needs" to do this is essentially because it's a household name that is pretty much the only one that can push that price point and get away with it, thus setting a standard. There's no other title I can think of that could get away with doing it without massive backlash nor one big enough to normalise that new setpoint as a standard.
I don't think consoomers care
>>739102884>Bank of America...Why is Bank of America talking about vidya and why would anyone care about their opinion on vidya prices? Doesn't this sound insane to anyone else? I have never heard my country's bank comment on how much entertainment media should cost.
>>739102884>$80To cheap for gta6Gta6 going to be the most revolutionary video game ever made so charging anything below $100=giving it away for free
>>739102884>Bank of America
>>739104243the quote is essentially that, and reads more like a thinly veiled threat. TakeTwo must think of the investors, """partners""", and the entire industry, who can all raise their prices if GTA does it first.also explains that, as we all know, using AI will let them raise prices, not lower them. because it's such an amazing advanced technology that everyone respects, it brings so much more value to the consumer.
>>739102884Havent bothered reading the article but I think the retard is fearmongering about the videogame industry as a whole, not just the west. Why the fuck else bring up Mario Kart?
Bro your DLC ? Season pass ? Merch ?
>>739102884So basically the industry wasn't careful with their investments and now need the consumer to buy them out?Perhaps spending 300 million dollars to make your game nobody enjoys wasn't a good strategy. Maybe you should spend less money and make better games? The gaming industry won't collapse. Only the AAA one will. And good riddance.
>>739102884Every time I see shit like this I get reminded that inflation is just another name for greed
>>739102884$160 would be a good price for GTA VI
>game that will cost over 100 (70 dollar game and 30-40 dollar online booster bundle that quite literally everyone will buy and pay even more over another 15 years of mtx) should cost 80 dollarsfor what purpose?
So fucking tired of forbes shilling their garbage here. Some former analyst that used to work at Bank of America made a comment on twitter and the clickbait pretends the entire bank threatened Rockstar specifically on this issue.
>>739102884Perhaps it's time for the industry to collapse then.
>We also heard from attendees that the industry, which is perceived as struggling, would have difficulty selling games for $80 if GTA 6 came out at $70. We think it’s in Take-Two's self-interest, as a publisher and partner to many developers, to raise the price point for the entire industry>Dessouky also said that a higher price would align with the idea that “AI will raise the value of games to consumers.”Stop letting retarded cocksuckers write articles about other cocksuckers.The dude is a fucking stock analyst and can eat shit. The gall of this retard.>dude they should raise the price of their game so everyone else can use it as a benchmark and an excuse for using AI :^)The dude is a fucking parasite.
The Blood of Dawnwalker already costs that much and is a less high profile game.I bet GTA VI will cost between 90 to 100 USD.
>>739103280One of the industry's biggest money maker is a game that cost $40, and lets you get it's monetization for free. The other big money makers are shit like chink gacha and Counterstrike.These retards are about to do to vidya the same thing they did to Star Wars; kill it through greed.
>>739103490digital sales are higher margin because there's less labor involvedthis is just retarded MBAs postulating shit they dreamed up in an excel sheet
>>739102884The only way I can even tolerate this argument is by accepting the premise that if GTA6 is sold at $60 then all other games are automaticaly worth less than that by comparison because no other game is equal in value
>>739105605the point being that the higher margins have offset the need to raise prices beyond $60-70 range for so longthere is no need to raise prices except this retarded hand wringing spiel
>>739105545That whole spiel is trying to lay the groundwork for everyone else to start increasing the base cost of games, when they've already been subtly doing that over the years anyway. 70 is just the starting bid, then you've got all the different release versions for 80/90/sometimes even over 100 greenbacks with each offering more shit. Sometimes superfluous, sometimes actual content being ripped out and sold back to you to make up the production costs. Total Warhammer removed both the Warriors of Chaos AND blood and gore as separate from the initial release version to sell back. You'd think both of those would be very foundational to a Warhammer ANYTHING, but Sega and CA managed to sell it back to people.If, IF, Rockstar bumps it up to 80 base, and the rest of the industry uses it as justification to raise the prices yet again, the biggest change will be that even more tentpole AAA projects going to fail even harder as less people willing to spend more for a blatantly unfinished product on launch.
>>739105687I can tell you the way these MBA retards think about it is that digital allows for a type of sales curve economists only dreamed aboutthe consumer behavioral aspect will make up for the reduction in demand if they release GTA 6 during a recession so to them raising it to $80 is a no brainer because pre-orderfags will buy regardless and the rest of the demand is captured over time and acts as a baseline to the real monetization (MTX)
These are the same people that were crying when silksong came out for 20 bucks. Fuck them, no i wont buy games for 80, im already not buying them for 70 either
>>739102884>GTA VI should cost at least $80 or the industry will collapse, says Bank of AmericaThe industry will collapse anyway, sort of how Rhodesia collapsed, because the games industry hires idiots, freaks and political saboteurs while kicking out talent. Just like South Africa today, which has pockets of wealth and stability in a sea of death, murder, rape and crime with a side of genocide, so will the western games industry be a valley of death with very few spots of light where talented devs survive.Ironically, big developers like Rockstar and big publishers like TakeTwo would only stand to gain if they make sure to collapse the games industry, because they would monopolize digital entertainment production or at the very least consolidate just like hollywood, the TV industry and telecommunications did, among others.
>>739105687>doing that over the years anywayTry decades. The only thing that's different between then and now is that the clowns of now are trying to make that high price the new entry point pricetag.
I'm going to laugh so hard when they try this, the industry follows suit, and because we're in the beginning of a global financial collapse (soon to be civiliational collapse) every other greedy fucker corpo's slop bombs and the entire major corpo sector in gaming dies overnight. Do it greedy retards, I beg you. end your own plague with your hubris. It's the only entertainment you fuckers will ever produce anyway.
Does not seem worth eight dollar, never mind 10x that
>>739102884standard is definitely going to be 70-80an italian store that listed it early had it at 81 dollars last night.
>>739105880>It's the only entertainment you fuckers will ever produce anyway.Mathematically it's impossible for me to enjoy GTA6 more than I'll enjoy laughing as it bombs
>>739102884doesn't that mean the optimal strategy would be to release at $60 or less?why would they want competition to thrive? they could end them forever with a move like that
>>739105938>gta>bombingabsolutely delusional. itd sell like hotcakes even with a $100 price tag
>>739105867I remember those prices, phantasy star IV was 100 bucks at toys-r-us when it first came out.a few months later I found it at a random mom & pop owned game store and my mom bought it for me for 10 dollars.Same with lagoon from that image, I got mine with the box and everything for 15.
>>739106007You're probably right. However, it deserves to flop
>>739106007As much as I hate it, you're probably right. Rockstar would have to make something so unequivocally shit that even normies would turn their nose at it. Sadly that hasn't happened yet, so it'll sell, though I suppose the real question is how well will it sell?
>>739104325Think about it. Put your thinking cap on for a few seconds.Grand Theft Auto VI is projected to be one of the largest entertainment launches of all time. If the BIGGEST GAME EVER is 70 dollars, publishers will realize that they can't offer an equivalent 80 dollar value proposition. They won't go higher than GTA's MSRP. GTA is the price ceiling for all games moving forward.Why does the Bank of America care? The less money that flows through entertainment, the less money that flows through the Bank of America. Higher prices = more money.Everyone here is thinking with their wallet: *I* don't want to pay 80 dollars because it's Jewish and expensive. But take a step back, stop thinking about how it annoys you, the consumer, and think about WHY the banks are making this statement in the first place. Suddenly it's ten times more shady because it impacts a lot more than just vidya.
>>739106168I hope their marketing budget blows their budget through the ass, but the goyim probably don't need marketing for this.
>>739103585The sad thing is, at this point I can't even tell whether you're taking the piss or not.
>>739105941100% this. A $60 release would be a enormous "fuck you" to AAA film-budget bloat, and Rockstar would be able to weather it because of their outrageous cash reserves and financial associates.
>>739105518that is literally what the bank of america is suggesting. You can't tell me a bunch of kikes doesn't know that increasing the cost of something does not increase the profit, they would probably make more profit pricing it at $60 because then even poorfags would go for it. Aren't those jews taught in private schools too, outside of the ever shittier educational system of us common folk?
>>739105838Hi Elon, how was China?
>>739102884>gaming industry will collapseGood.
>>739102884this is such obvious scam bullshit and people shouldnt stand for it but unfortunately gta 6 is already guaranteed to sell 10s of millions of copies no matter what they chargethis industry needs a hard reset
>>739106404No. The demand for GTA6 exceeds reason, "on paper" yes, the 60 dollar price point should translate to more sales, but realistically >>739106007 the amount of normalfags that will buy GTA6 for an excessive price (ESPECIALLY poorfags, who are usually poor precisely because of poor economic impulse control) outnumbers sensible audiences who will either boycott the high price or pirate the game.
>>739102884I genuinely can't remember the last $60 game I bought that I thought was worth it, let alone $80The industry is dead and we desperately need another collapse for it to ever come back
People actually think you will be able to pirate the 2 billion dollar game. I am laughing
>>739106558Wasn't there an article written that GTA6 would need to sell, minimum 11 million copies to break even at all? I can only imagine how massive the budget was for that to be the case, never mind how much the marketing will be. Video games getting movie budgets leads me to suspect that the big titles also have movie marketing budgets. So whatever the total cost will be, you have to double it to include the marketing...of course, that's just rough math, but it mostly checks out.
>bank of america>notorious for making bad financial decisionsI'd sooner assume an 80 dollar price tag on GTA6 would cause the industry to crash once and for all if those fucking retarded faggots think it's a good idea.
>>739106587They should raise it $120, but then put it on sale for $40 ~4 months later.There are idiot whales that will pay $120 and if they want to, let them.>bbbut I won't be able to play for 4 months thenSo? Do you need to play it day 1? If so, pay the piper.
>>739102884sure as soon as every triple A game becomes quadruple A quality and not made by feminist anti-lewd cunts.
>>739106337yeah I am. But there is something funny that could happen. Because the price point is so high most people will only be able to enjoy it via streamers. What happens if the games story truly turns out to be shit. Like have the white guy be a cuck taking care of his lovers kid degree of backlash. I just have a gut feeling something will happen that before people scrounge up enough money to get a PS5 / console that plays it well the game will expose itself on something awful which will be used as a cope to not buy it thus minimizing expectations. People who are being priced out will gas light themselves that the game is bad and will op out. What if the game takes 6 mins to go online like it did in the past. Do you think the ADHD audience will cope with that
Sony and Tim Sweeny's arbitrary pricehike from $60 standard to $70 standard was a net loss of sales only just made up for with the price increase. Bank of America thinks that paypiggies will pay EVEN MORE and the loss of sales will be offset by oinking paypiggy.Ignore the fact $70 is the basic-bitch entrypoint nowadays and MOST games actually launch with $120+ pricetags when you factor in the preorder deluxe edition that Piggy is paying. oink oink.
>>739106624That's true, yes. GTA6 has an estimated two BILLION dollar budget. It's projected to be one of, if not THE most expensive entertainment product of all time. Rockstar gets a lot of funding from Saudi Arabia's PIF, and is frequently recommended by the Bank of America for stockholders to invest in. And there's no reason for them not to have this level of confidence, 11 million copies is child's play- Mario Kart World launched alongside a new console and it's already sold 14 million in under a year. GTA is guaranteed to break even and then some.
I'm not gonna buy it
Mmhmm...mhmmm... I see.Chase? Capital One? How do you feel about Grand Theft Auto?
>>739106939I'll buy it, when it's ~AU$50 on PC.Gonna be a few years.
>>739106761Paypiggies will pay more if the game is actually something people want. Budgets =/= consumer interest, which is why every other AAA release is a Concord-level flop. Disconnect between what players want and what publishers think players want
>>7391068682 BILLION DOLLARS you say? You could make 2 Rings of Power seasons with that kind of money.
>>739106939me neither, never understood the appeal of these games
>>739107016Yeah. It's utterly insane, and that's not even accounting for marketing costs. Supposedly they've been given “unlimited financial, creative human resources," which just means money means fuck-all to Take-Two, keep throwing hired hands at your electronic Tower of Babel until it's taller and bigger than the rest.
>>739107130I think they were actually scared about Leslie Benzies 'EVERYWHERE' which turned out to be vaporware and the end product was an unpolished turd.
>>739102884>paul tassiKill yourself.
>>739102884>says Bank of AmericaFurther proof that the gaming industry needs to collapse. Bank of America does not have your best interests in mind and neither does the status quo.
>>739102884if the price goes up, people expect better, and will less likely to support slop that should fail, in turn putting the final nail in the coffin when woke games sell even less
>>739107235Oh, weird. Never knew about this one, but that checks out. I can't think of many cases where a solo dev broke away from a company, formed a new team, and produced something equivalent to their best work.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GcKhJZqyyLs
>>739107235They were never scared of Benzies they got rid of him for a reason. If he was such an asset they wouldn't have sent him on "vacation" and locked him out of the building.
>>739107130It would be a hilarious upset if due entirely to the out of control budget, GTA 6 manages to sell a fuckton of copies....but still ends up being a financial failure because no one thought to put a hard limit on how big the budget was allowed to be.The schadenfreude of it all, priceless.
>>739103767>GTA6 can get away with being 80€People said this about Mario Kart and Nintendo games in general and then even Walmart and Costco has been fire sale-ing their $70 releases, let alone $80 Mario Kart of which they brought the $50 bundle back for since it barely sells without it. Genuinely would bet that GTA cannot tank $80 even if it breaks records on week 1.
>>739107574This is the only game that can get away with having an unlimited budget it would be suicide for any other.
ah yes, just what the struggling industry needs, higher prices!lmao
Don't believe in jewish lies
>>739107574It would be! Sadly I can't imagine it. Between gun-and-ball gamers and Rockstar's corporate stooges, it would have to take something utterly baffling to prevent both groups from supporting Rockstar....another delay?
The one thing you guys don’t get is that if GTA 6 ends up being fucking amazing costs $100 and still sells like crazy that’s bad for the industry, every company is going to start charging $100 for their shitty games the problem is they’re not GTA, you get what im saying? once this game comes out, the industry is fucked, this game doesn't come to save the industry its the actual nuke.
>>739107850You gotta believe, anon. Believe in the possible failure of one of the biggest companies in the industry! Nothing is too big to fail, even the oldest of giants falls eventually.
>>739107850Doesn't seem like there will be a delay this time, it's the first time the game is under 200 days to go without a delay and Take-Two's CEO is doing tons of interviews saying it's on track.
>>739107897>every company is going to start charging $100So fucking what? All it will do is create more AAA flops. No one is buying $70 games already, on pc at least. Do you think people will start magically thinking its ok to pay more for games, just because one game did it?
Every game should cost $100 because gaming was never meant for poor turdworlder
>>739108023>Do you think people will start magically thinking its ok to pay more for games, just because one game did it?Pretty sure people were thinking the same thing about microtransactions when Bethesda started selling horse armor in Oblivion.
>>739107897Nintendo already made games cost $80, how much worse can it get?
>>739108023You don't get the point, the AAA industry is currently waiting for GTA 6 to become their savior so they can charge 100 bucks for trash, when its actually their doom.
>>739103280>muh JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS!!!!! by your christ on the cross, the digital ID can't come soon enough.
>>739108124Its not happening, very few studios can release a game at full price these days and do well
>>739108124Some stats just came out that showed a majority of people aren't buying new full price games they're waiting for sales and price drops. This won't affect GTA 6 of course but other games are already struggling at $70.
>>739108203>game releases today>i can buy it with all dlc, patches & updates for a sale price 3 years down the road>i will either have better hardware and the software will be better optimized, tooWin-win, I wonder why the market behaves like that.
>>739108271>i can buy it with all dlc, patches & updates for a sale price 3 years down the roadThis is the main one for me. It really makes 0 sense to buy games at launch these days. Not only are they feature incomplete, they're often buggy. You get better product for less money if you can wait a few months or a year
If anything, GTA 6 being $80 will crash the industry, because corporate suits are too dumb to realise that GTA can only get away with that because it’s GTA. Consumers won’t buy any other game priced that high.
>>739105687yeah, people will look at new AAA slop and say >80 bucks for that??? nah, that ain't even close to GTA quality fr frat least you're not europoor, new games are 80 euros here already
>>739107897I can only get so erect, anon.
>>739102884Also Silksong already killed all indie devs
>>739107947I don't think it's possible for GTA to fail to sell BUT... it would be the definitive begin to the next vidya crash. All weak corpo bitches would flee the industry and studios would collapse left and right. I only wish it were possible for GTA 6 to not sell.
>>739108261>Some stats just came out that showed a majority of people aren't buying new full price games they're waiting for sales and price dropsWelcome to a mature digital videogame ecosystem where libraries aren't kept small from selling old games to pay for new releases and only keeping favorites, vidya industry. You should have listened to Brack.
>>739102884Didn't we already see this script with Silksong
>>739102884Bank of America more like Treasury of Israel
I'm not buying gta6 in the first place and I'm not going to spend $80 on a standard edition game ever. It just means I'll have to wait forever for sales in order to play new bad games.
>>739109217It ain't happening, this is literally the only thing normalfags are actually waiting for and have been for years. They also expect sharkcards to be even more passive running income and the expected doubledip PC release. Anybody on /v/ thinking a tortanic is going to happen is going to be sorely dissapointed. I can already see the cope on /v/ with some random articles like >BLACKROCK DISSAPOINTED IN GTA6..... (THAT THEY ONLY SOLD 5 BILLY INSTEAD OF 6) WHAT WENT WRONG /V/????. All /v/ can do now is mentally kneel and just spam "Is GTA6 redpilled?" threads or reheating the 'is killing police based???' twitter nachos to cope, and that's when I know they have submitted.
>>739106471Mainstream gaming industry has been shit for years so nothing of value would be lost
OY VEYToo much anti-semitism in this thread! I request the moderator delete the thread this instant!
>>739103280FACT: all money on Earth rightfully belongs to G-d's Chosen People, we just let you filthy, stupid goyim hold on to it for us until we need it.
>>739104325I want you to think for a second.Really ponder the fact that GTA 4 was a 2008 videogame and that American banks got a massive infusion of liquid capital during the 2008 financial crisis due to the bailouts (primarily voted for by politicians who had stock in banks natch).GTA 6 flopping would have the same effect as the subprime mortgage crisis.
>>739109309Yes. Indie devs will all die off because Silksong is too cheap and no one will ever buy more expensive games again.
>>739109630Yup, then Haunted Chocolatier will come out $80.I do find the section of people who want GTA to be more expensive to be funny folk, I'm not talking about the corporations because it's obvious they have a vested interest in it being priced higher, but some of these fanboys act like fucking gachafags who are proud if their rates are garbage and want to be scammed harder to have the opportunity to give them more money.
>>739109696Goyim should be happy to give G-d's Chosen People's money back to us.
>>739108193>stop blaming kikes while we use the full power of the system to track you down
>>739109574Even the release date is projected to have a major impact on the global economy (primarily due to holidays/sick days), so I can’t imagine how badly the economy would tank if it flopped.
>>739102884I won't pay anything over $199 for the base game.
>>739102884$80 is a ridiculous price, it should be $100 at least for the standard edition
I don't care about online play at all, so it had better have a 60+ hour story and 300+ hours worth of entertainment from screwing around in the open world if they want $100 out of me.
>>739104325Bank of America isn't "America's bank," you retard. They're just a private bank like any other like Chase, CitiBank, Wells Fargo, etc. He's commenting on it presumably because he's an investment analyst employed at BofA. He's still a retard but he's a rerard employed at a private company, not be the US government.
let the goyim deal with the price of gtaVI in the real world
>>739106419>genocide apologist acting smugGuess they're not brown/palestinian enough eh?
What is so great about a crime simulator?
>>739110560>so it had better have a 60+ hour storyBest I can do is 20 missions that have you drive a car to a dude then a cutscene plays, then you drive car to a place and shoot, a cutscene plays and you drive back to the dude and watch the cutscene.>and 300+ hours worth of entertainmentHow does collecting 900 pidgeon poops sounds like?
>>739111220You can commit fun crimes and not go to prison or get shot for it.
>>739111220GTA hasn't been a crime simulator since you burgled houses in San Andreas
It should be $100 so all other companies follow suit with their shitty AAA games and crash the industry together.
>>739107897Investors need a sign that the western consumer hasn't croaked yet, that's what this is all about. In their minds, GTA6 is "THE" perfect golden goose game, something every consumer with a pulse and a credit card wants more desperately than oxygen, water or food. If this game doesn't convince millions of "gaymerz" to sell a kidney or prostitute their children or themselves in order to larp as a criminal or play dressup as Lucia, then there's no future in investing here, and they all go to other, greener pastures, such as drone production or white slavery exports in ukraine.The western games industry is cooked anyway, because in the last decade a lot of actual game devs got kicked to the curb in maoist ideological cleansing operations by ideologically captured HR departments and "consulting" grifting operations like Sweet Aborted Fetus inc. and its plethora of copies courtesy of Sarkesian, the true Christopher Columbus of the western games industry's woke colonization operation. It's called Brain Drain, and it's the result of nepotistic, ideological and racial based hiring practices. That's why kids these days are on their phones playing chinese shit instead of getting excited for western games. It's done.
>lower price of a desired AAA to sell more units instead>no one does it
>>739102884>says bank of Americaabout as useful as a woman's input on eroge
>goyim should hand over more money, says jewish megacorpimagine my shock
In my country, 80 bucks is a large pizza and 1.5L coke. Are you guys just poor or Russian?
>>739108271>>739108345But guys! Don't you fear missing out on the latest and greatest like Concord? Or Marathon? Think of what you'll be missing if you just wait and play finely polished games of the last 45 years.
>>739103136FPBP. Wasn't Bank of America involved in that Virgin Islands Epstein shit too? Actually, I just checked. The answer is yes...
>>739111420>/pol/roach asks chatgpt to write a seethe post>spergs out about retarded offtopic shit instead of capitalismGood Piggy.
>>739111420>look into that study in the pic>190 Chinese kids from upper class homes is the sample size. You might as well say 70% of kids own a Droptail and hide the fact your sample size was Billionaires' children.
>>739108193>who owns all the banks, commits all the high scale pranks, yet thinks you should feel guilty when you know the name Fink?
>>739111625>you're wrong because only rich people play video games>now please spend 80-100$ plus tip on gta6 and 900$ on a consoleThe jokes write themselves, that's why tards like this creature here>>739111541 think i'm asking AI to write shitposts.
>>739111768I'm just noting the source is the worse kind of click bait where it feeds into confirmation bias
>>739102884>jews need to steal your money or collapse happensWater is wet. When does the boogaloo happen? I'm so sick and tired of waking up to this fake and gay neoliberal hell ruled by child raping, baby eating monsters.
>>739111871>the worse kind of click bait where it feeds into confirmation biasThe article only confirms that video games are increasingly a niche hobby or past time. I can assure you that way more people tried f2p gacha games though, because the install base is basically every single smartphone out there, which is a barrier regular games can only dream about.
an Italian retailer just leaked $80 for pre-orders
dont care, i’m pirating lmfao
>>739112217It's fake
>>739102884>Bank of America says
>>739102884EA games on average are worth $34 USD.Activision games on average are worth $26 USD.I don't know the staff numbers and wages of Rockstar but none of these games are priced correctly, and they are, in most cases more than double the cost of their actual value.USA investment traders have destroyed the entire planet's economy of wealth and none of the "experts" have studied into correction of the markets they cling to, because they get paid more than their jobs should allow.
>>739102884I already practically stopped buying $70 games. Finish the industry off, do it.
>>739102884
>>739112348This is fake?https://www.showgame.it/products/grand-theft-auto-vi-gta-6-ps5?_pos=1&_psq=gta+vi&_ss=e&_v=1.0
>>739112624Stores can put up "preorders" and "guarantee" consumers will get the game at that price but they're official in any way
>>739112723Not official lol
I genuinely hope GTA6 flops hard
I think it should be illegal for goyim to not buy the latest product on launch.
>>739109957>The US economy will collapse due to poor DLSS implementation in GTA6Clown world.
>>739112931I think it should be illegal for goyim to possess money, own property, or not be enslaved and tortured by G-d's Chosen People.
>>739108535Yeah, maybe the absolute biggest and most well known gun and ball games might also get away with it but everyone else will be consigned to the bargain bin within the month
>>739112784How can a GTA game flop? All they have to do is make GTA5 again and people will gobble it all up.
>>739113220>All they have to do is release itOof, you're asking for a lot.
>>739108271>have better hardwareyeah :(
Because they are the bank who lent Rockstar the money for the game or what?
>>739113220Thinking they can make GTAV again is a big assumption. R* barely makes games anymore. How much experience and talent does the dev team actually have left considering it's famous for being a shit place to work and they've only released 1 game since 2013?
>>739105687At this point I say let em do it, it'll help push the industry that much closer to collapse.Gta is one of the only franchise games that could get away with this shit but even then they'll suffer from overall loss of sales.>consoles rotting on the shelves at their new higher prices>new release games rotting on shelves at their $69-$80 price points
>>739106558If they had any long term sense the play would be>convince Sony and Microsoft to run sales on all their consoles at least through christmas>drop the game at $60, a special made to order version higher priced for the cunts with more money than sense>discounts on ps+ and such around the time the online comes
>>739102884make it an even 100 and let's crash this cancer industry already.
>>739113220>Best caseit sales gorillians in a collapsing industry spurring the rest of the companies to to go full bore into the abyss>Worst caseGame reaches the point where it's shipped out and ready to sale and the entire economy collapses before release.
It's gonna be hilarious if people decide they'd rather just keep playing GTA V.
Here is a marketing start for Microsoft.Make GTA 6 exclusive Xbox SS for same price as the console with game included. Millions would buy.
At least we're not speaking German, right lads?
>>739102884If GTA ends up being the standard for that price though, then every other $80 dollar game will be thought of "the same price as GTAVI". And unfortunately very very few games are able to provide the same kind of value for money as a GTA game.
>>739115513darn' tootin', my friend. thankfully we get to be decent fucking people, am i right?
>says banks of...
>>739102884This would be the most positive flop in video game history. I hope it bombs but normies love their ghetto degeneracy too much.
>>739102884it should cost $100 just to make poorfags and 3rd worlders seethe.
>>739102884it doesn't matter what it costs, i'm gonna buy the most expensive version of it to piss off all shitskin pcjeets on this boardit's gonna be hilarious kek
>>739115592People said Silksong would tank indie game prices but new releases are still selling for $20 - $30.
>>739113108alot of places are adding the whole "digital money" that expires if you don't use itor trying to pass itor so i read
$100 is greedy but they know people will pay$80 is to be expected $60 would be nice$50 would make the AAA industry seethef2p and the market implodes
>>739102884It doesn't matter what it costs, retards will still buy it, even though there hasn't been a good GTA game in 20 years
>>739115812you know what would piss me off? if you jumped off a cliff and diedit would make me so mad i would kill myself
>>739102884And MKW sales cratered once the bundle deal was over.Turns out people don't want to buy 80 dollar games.
>>739115925not gonna happen, shitnigger pcjeetmaybe if you beg nicely, some human will gift you a ps5 and a copy of the game
>>739115513>Speaking a patois of French, German, Latin, Yiddish, Hippie, Basketball-American, Stenography and a smattering of English instead
>>739114096No anon, you don't understand. They threw a billion dollars around at random intervalled segments across the last 13 years. It will defacto be good because they took a long time and sunk money into it. That means it will be good, every time.
>>739115996i wouldn't pay $2 for Rockstar or Nintendo game if for some reason i wasn't able to resell them
>>739108193>jew wants everyone to have digital ID& you wonder why everyone hates on you guys?
>>739109479Nice, you're doing your stereotype justice
>>739109479jewish business tip #1:all the best deals happen in synagogues
>>739105827This, fuck these ingrates
>Bestbuy pre-order leak turned out to be fakeKekGoing to be a lot of angry GTAfags today
>>739102884dont care, not gonna buy it on goystation or any other console. fuck the banks btw
>>739113220>How can a GTA game flop?Because PS5 is behind PS4, Xbox is dead, they haven't announced a Nintendo version day 1, PC parts is uber expensive. Then next-gen for Sony and Microsoft will be a joke. Nobody's gonna buy $1000 consoles
>>739113220It sells lesss than 30 million copies first year.
>>739116747>>739116914You would be much better off if you just accept that goyim exist to serve G-d's Chosen People.
>>739115883Goyim don't deserve to have any money. You don't deserve anything except pain and suffering. You should be grateful that we don't force you to eat literal shit and sleep outside like dogs.
>>739103280They want it to be $80 because then other games that come out after it can be $80
What is this guy even talking about? Rockstar are not even American, if anything there's a lot less American game studios now compared to Asia and Europe or even other places, why does he think his opinion matter so much?
>>739102884guess what. video games suck. we have over 40 years of videogames that can be played for free now. get fucked jews. looks like corpo greed directly correlates to how good video games are. games cant ever be good EVER again until corpos are dismantled and the greed stops. save video games by dismantling every last corpo.
>>739102884It should be 200 USD because I want to see retarded goycattle (redundant) getting fleeced.
just make video games cost 1000 dollars per game so i can feel better about paying 0.
>>739103434You're right, but if the rest of these retards try to normalize higher pricing then that'll just accelerate the collapse of the industry, let them try.
>>739102884Just pay the CEOs less, downsize the dev teams, fire all diversity hires, and manage projects more effectively. It's that simple.
>>739102884>Muh induhstryGood. I hope GTA crashes, burns, and takes all western gaming down with it. I'm tired of gay shit, tired of movie shit, immersionfag shit, and western sensibilities in general in gamingIt was fine in the 90s, because everything in western gaming then was about tits, explosions, being silly but cool, or just a cartoony 90s vibe in general, but ever since normies, woke culture, lizard brained investors, and mainstream media have intertwined with gaming, it's shitI hope BoA is critically wounded too. I'm so tired of this corporate hyperbole >Unless we make a gorilliin% profit, everything ever will end
Why do they think that GTA charging 80 bucks means other games can get away with it? Its like saying Toyota can charge 500,000 for a car because Mercedes does. Only a very small amount of turbo normie popular franchises can get away with it. Like GTA and FIFA and COD and Madden and whatnot.
>>739102884It should cost at least $150.
>>739102884>it is imperative that the most anticipated game costs even more than what games cost now in order to get the market used to the new price hike>that makes it possible for every other game company to follow suite without fear of repercussions or low sales>we might even reach even higher prices at the end of the release year
>>739103343Illiterate retard. Tassi outright disagrees with them in the article.>"I’d advise counter to Bank of America: Don’t do it."
>>739122047Because so many games these days have retarded budgets to make games that attempt to accommodate the most retarded, fickle, and disloyal demographics, that they usually hope to break evenIt would make sense to exploit the consoomers who already proove they'll line up for anything these days, instead of counting on those who are tired of the bullshit and are tired of settling >>739122146That's shareholder talk. Please make your way into the nearest large fire in a neat and orderly fashion
>>739122047Some absolutely retarded logic about setting a precedent. I think all these price gougings have only made it so your average lad actually starts questioning why is that clearly rushed AA game the same price as AAA game. Things like donkey kong come to mind
>>739122320But they wont though. Those GTA/COD/FIFA people are not interested in other games.
>>739108136That's a good thing though.
>>739122429Corpos don't care about thatIf GTA 6 is a proof of concept for the next price hike standard, they'll jump on it if they think they'll make more tooLook at the industry as it is, there was a first to make a subscription service, there was a first to not put the whole fucking game in physical form, there was a first to make free money on dlc instead of releasing with everything included
Your average random game cannot get away with charging 70 and 80 and 90 bucks. Only stuff like GTA can do it and actually sell well. Other mainstream games that can get away with it are games like Resident Evil and Zelda and Mario and Assassins Creed and Sports/Racing games and Call of Duty and Battlefield. Theres probably about maybe 10 games that can get away with it.
>>739122320>That's shareholder talk. Please make your way into the nearest large fire in a neat and orderly fashionIf a million people decided Forza Horizon 6 is worth $120 then this is just straight logical conclusion.
>>739122687Even series like Ass Creed and Battlefield are long past the days when they can get away with it.
>>739102884Fuck off
>>739122687>>739122868Right? To this day we still don't have sales numbers for Ass Creed We Wuz Samuraiz n' kusooooo
>>7391228071.5 million premium version buys now. Looks like they sliced the cake hard to the point where people feel like with all the content stripped out of the standard version they may as well not even bother buying the game at all if they don't get the $120 version. Pretty damn gross, but retards have to have their slightly updated vroomvroomslop, I guess.
>>739102884I hope it collapses
I want Rockjew to die already.
>>739106939I played GTA5 and it really was pretty boring and I haven't see anything substantially better from this one.
>>739123276What do you think has been happening? It was never going to be a dramatic instantaneous demolition, but the western gaming industry has been crumbling year by year. Another several-hundred-million write-down here, another 1500 people laid off there, and the occasional Concordlike thrown in for good measure, over and over and over. The bigger worry is the direction in which it will ultimately be rebuilt.
>>739103238Pope leo's voice would actually matter.Jewish voices should be ground into the dirt.
>>739102884The AAA westoid game industry already collapsed a few years ago. Like 50% of devs in that realm have already been laid off at this point. Also funny to see troonera tourists sucking off banks and megacorps over all matters related to hiking game prices.
>>739112030>The article only confirms that video games are increasingly a niche hobby or past timeInsane take, video-games are more mainstream than ever, newer generations only doomscroll the internet and play video-games or consume gaming related content.
>>739102884Lots of guys are leaving because this hobby is entirely women's media now (and there's not enough of them showing up to replace the leavers) so yeah they're going to try raising prices on those remaining to compensate
a big install base for card sales is bigger than the initial pricelike obviously it isn't going to be $100 because gta6 flopping would unironically kill the entire aaa market at this point with how beaten down its already been
>>739102884>more than 10 years in development>thousands of the best industry professionals across the globe>$2 billion>100 hours of hollywood-quality campaign>online mode that offers infinite value for your money>the biggest and most detailed open world ever>setting a new bar for graphical fidelityrealistically, this is an AAAAA game and should cost at least $200. this is something people will play for the next 10 years, it's not some worthless FOMO shit you play for a week and forget like 99% of other western "video games".
>>739102884That's the worst news I've heard all day. Someone, anyone, save the billion dollar corporations.
LET IT BURNLET IT ALL FUCKING BURN
>>739102884They can price GTA 6 at $99 and people would still walk over each other to buy the game.
>>739124781It hasn't been in development for 10 years it's more like 5 or 6 years, RDR2 was in development for a long time after GTA 5 came out and this version of GTA 6 wasn't in development when Dan Houser was there.
>>739125358kinda ironic how far left communists/progressive liberal leftists turned out to be the biggest corporate bootlickers and cocksuckers lmao
>pcjeets already brewing up fantasies of gta 6 flopping>they will sadly not rope themselves even if gta 6 ends up selling millions of copies per dayunfortunate, but at least i'll get to enjoy daily pcjeet anti-gta seethe threads
>>739102884Don't worry about the price, the game is vaporware like DNF and BGE2
>>739102884im not buying it unless its $100 for basic version. im not sharing my hobby with poor people. poor people are disgusting
>>739130173>poor people are disgusting...okay good!
>>739105263This, it's a big lie to be told.>bro your money is not worth as much of itself now
>>739122687why does she look like that
>>739105545lol it's worth less if it used ai, there's no one to pay for work
>>739108193>we need to make it illegal for you to criticize meweird how this isn't necessary for other minority ethnic groups
>>739102884>OY VEY GOY LIVE IN RAGS AND GIVE US MORE MONEYFuck off.
>>739124210>gambling, porn, and cryptojesus no wonder you average 20 something year old man is fucking broke
The western games industry has a quality problem. I'm not struggling to pay the price they're asking, I'm struggling to justify wasting my time on their garbage.Not only games are not essential goods, I have a backlog that would realistically last longer than I'll game for the rest of my life. There is no reason to buy shitty games for $80, there is no reason to buy shitty games for $60, there is no reason to buy shitty games at all.Let the crash come, get rid of all the people who don't actually work, go back to 20 niggas and a dream, make something worth my time, then we talk about price.
>>739102884What happened? Haven't they been doing this exact article but suggesting $100 instead those past few years? Why did they suddenly drop to $80? Is that an admission of defeat yet?
>>739102884I'm not paying Indian devs anything like that. See you in the steam sales after it's repeatedly patched.
They could release it for free and charge $70 a month to play online
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>>739102884$60 or $80, it makes no difference. I'm still going to wait to buy a game until it's on sale with all the DLC for under $20. There's no game I'm excited about enough to buy on day 1 at full price
