In before, $99 and it sells like hotcakes. The success of Apple shows people will eat the price hike given enough hype.
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The success of Apple shows
You're comparing apples and oranges I mean video games.
The Switch 2 has been wildly successful. I think Rockstar is gonna be just fine.
Remember, the opinions you read online on places like Lemmy do not match the opinions of the general public. This doesn't just apply to games; on pretty much every topic Lemmy proves time, and time again, that people here don't have the first god damn clue how the average person thinks.
I just take what lemmy agrees is reality. Then I add an 80% more depressing adjustment to that, and I'm usually pretty close. Like hegseth getting fired means hell be replaced by the resurrected corpse of John Wayne gacey.
I think we can differentiate between fashion and video games.
I have no doubt GTA will sell well enough regardless of price and quality. But if it's a $100 and the quality isn't there, I doubt it will sell as well as they'd hope.
But we'll see.
I don't know, it feels like the US is at least heading towards a tipping point.
Shit man, I don't even want a $50 GTA6. Rockstar and Take2 can go to hell.
The single player part might be decent though. I hope.
Will totally not get it at release though. For neither of the overcooked asking prices...
If they had actually come out with the single player DLC for GTA5, I’d be more inclined to get 6 near launch. But the only way I’ll get it is if reviews show that the single player story and world are legit as-is, because i don’t trust them to add anything later.
I wouldn't trust them with . But also I won't trust most of the reviews too. Guess they will use denuvo anyway, so no piracy to check-before-buy. Unless then, they can sadly go fork themselves. But screw single-player, the money was in the shark-cards...sigh
I think most people don't have much impulse control or long term planning. They'll buy it at full price despite having a backlog of other games
"Now pay us lots of money and we'll give you more genius insights"
people will pay, not me but people
For once I'm glad that rockstar takes forever to release their games for PC, this way I get to see how everyone reacts to it first then decide if it's worth it after the hype dies down
"Root cause analysis suggest the possibility that the fundamental problem may be linked to the reason you needed to pay us to tell you that. We're prepared to write an exhaustive report with more findings on that matter for a small consultancy fee of a quarter of a million dollars."
GTA 4 was my favourite and still is. Great single player story worth the price of a AAA game, and we later got 3 great single player story expansions.
Now they sell us games that are split into chunks and sold as a season pass, and gta is all about online now.
I actually wouldn’t be surprised if the story for 6 is super short. By gta 7 it will be fully online, micro transactions and no story mode
All the simps are gonna buy it regardless.
Stop giving these shit companies money especially for this milked out unoriginal crap made in sweatshop conditions.
Aren't these greedy fuckers going to just sell shark cards for like infinite more money? Just make it free and you widen that market by a shit ton
They sell the complete game for $100, then they make the online free to play after a couple years of people buying in. You get the FOMO bucks upfront and the whale dollars roll in steadily.
All video games are free
:)
This is online only, with an active ID check. It might even only be cloud based delivery with no actual local data.
I give it a couple months before it's cracked
Don't want it will still send it to the top. Just needs some sort of boycott to ignore day one to be peak gamer.
I legitimately wonder how many people are going to buy a PS5 just for this game.
Based on my own research, that's about 37% too many, ±3% margin of error
Seen it with no man's sky, seen it with cyberpunk, seeing it with gta6. I wonder if gamers are?