Rockstar said GTA 6 costs $79.99 across PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S, confirming a $10 jump from the standard $70 we’ve seen this generation. The Ultimate Edition, meanwhile, is $20 more, priced $99.99.
GTA 6 physical copies do not include a disc, Rockstar has confirmed. They’re just a code in a box
Soooo, why doesn’t it release on PC if consoles won’t even get physical copies ?
Probably because they get fat bonuses from console manufacturers to release there first. Then they can release on PC later for full price and people will still buy it.
Console players spend a whole lot more in GTA Online than PC players do. Probably because PC players mod more.
From my (PC) point of view GTA 6 comes in 2028 then. OK. I’ll wait. I have waited 30 years for VR to arrive, I can wait 2 years for GTA 6, big whoop.
Noup, standard wasn’t 70.
Standard was 59,99 and will always be 59,99. Never forget, never forgive.
This might be the first mainline GTA to NOT outsell the previous GTA
Would be pretty wild but I wouldn’t hold my breath.
230m copies is an insane bar to clear, even for this juggernaut. I’m sure Rockstar’s expecting some headwinds on the price, but nothing major.
It sold 12 million on day 1. It was released on the Xbox and the ps3. There were about 80 mil of each console out at the time. There are only about 93 million ps 5s out right now.
I’d be surprised if the sell 7 million copies on day 1
Good thing I don’t give a single fuck about getting this on release, or multiplayer, or any of the nonsense here. I’ll wait you out Rockstar, and hope the rest of the gaming community is finally tired of your shit.
Lol im not paying a cent over $20 for it
I’m going to do the same thing I did with GTAV: wait ten years and get it for free on Epic or whatever.
I wonder if you still have to tap X to run like it’s 2002. At least default that shit to the Tears of the Kingdom style where you just hold the button.
Website details the game actually blocks off stuff if you don’t buy the most expensive version
They are insane if they do that.
Blocking stuff off means, what though? Any game with 2 editions and a difference in content can be seen as glass half full or half empty: the higher edition “adds content to the lower edition”, or the lower edition “blocks content from the higher edition.” Usually the missing content is vehicles, guns, skins, costumes, etc.
But if they’re blocking parts of the map, or he story, then that’s a whole different beast.
It’s guns, cars, and cosmetics, of which there will be plenty in $80 version. The one part that’s hard to evaluate is that the larger edition has more “businesses”. An educated guess is that it’s the real estate minigame from Vice City, and there are a few properties that are only in the more expensive edition, but that’s only a guess. It doesn’t sound like whole storylines are locked off.
Found IGN’s list of things and that sounds about right.
Let’s be honest, if Rockstar would decided to sell the game for $100 the people would pay for it without any problem, and even so it would win a lot of awards. Because Rockstar is a piece of shit.
I don’t get why GTA is so loved honestly, it’s just an rape, assault and stoner simulator.
Since at least GTA4, Rockstar has nearly cornered the market on crime stories like you’d find in Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorcese, Guy Ritchie, or Michael Mann movies. The appeal is playing out an action game that would feel like one of those crime stories.
Interesting point, thanks for pointing that
rape, assault and stoner simulator.
what the fuck, why would you lump smoking weed in with rape and assault
Fuck Rockstar. Absolute piece of shit company! And shame on any of you people for playing this dumpster fire.
I hope you find the help you need.
OK, seriously now: Why bother saying you’re going to “release a physical version” that’s nothing more than a code inside an empty plastic box? I really don’t get it.
Many retail games still allow you to have the full game without any service account or internet connection.
How does that work with a “Code-in-a-box”?
That’s way, the people with slow Internet will have a nice box to look at while their download fail.
Now that’s a reasonable response lol
Some people like to still have the box for collection purposes. Personally, I agree. I think the only physical option at this point should be something like a collectible steelbook if all they’re going to have is a redemption code.
i like starfields steelbook. the code is on a real version of the in game credits. its heavy and fun to hold
its heavy and fun to hold
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Huge “I like shorts. They’re comfy and easy to wear.” energy.
im not quite sure what this message conveys
I’m just saying the phrase you singled out has the same feeling as this heavily memed phrase.
Yeah, Steelbooks and the like make sense, but wanting to buy a piece of plastic that’s just a waste of space… It’s the worse of physical and the digital format, the worse of both worlds.
(The anti Hannah Montana!)
But does it run on Hannah Montana Linux?
So people can give it as a physical gift. That’s really it.
Gift cards exist. Why not gift cards shaped videogames? Why a nearly empty box?
I’m not entirely sure, but the game disc can still be sold. Isn’t it? If it is just a code you enter and then don’t need the disc anymore, then you cannot sell it. Its basically a digital code only, like on Steam / PC. But if the game disc acts as a license, then it will download the rest of the game and you still need the disc to play. In that case you can sell the disc and no longer play the game. Similar to how game key cards work on Switch 2.
Another reason why big publishers want to have a physical release is, that they have a presence everywhere where “normal” games are also sold. Maybe your mom buys it for you, or a friend gives a gift.
But what’s the use of the box in “code-in-a-box”? It’s so fucking useless is insulting.
Would you rather it be sold as a piece of cardboard with a scratch off reveal code?
I just told you a few reasons from both sides. Another reason I can think of is, game cannot leak before official download day. The biggest reason probably is, because its cheaper to produce.
It’s extraordinarily cheaper to produce, and it kills the second hand game market. Both of which have been thorns in the side of AAA gaming companies for decades. Nobody else had the balls to force online only games (partially due to EU laws). A few tried (I forget the specifics), but they got smacked down and reconsidered. Everyone’s watching to see if this works, and if it does, brick and mortar game stores will go the way of the DVD rental.
To sell in physical stores so parents and other people can buy them as gifts.
OK, but why an nearly empty box!? Why not, idk, a card with the code or something? Why a goddamn box with a little piece of paper in it? At least Nintendo’s key-cards are something (shitty, but something nonetheless)
It needs to look as much of as a game as the others, that’s why they make a box for a code.
Which is a stupid reason but sales people are like this so.
To play devil’s advocate: physical disc releases are a security nightmare.
Pirate groups pay big money to get access to disc images before release so they can have a crack ready on day 1, and leakers would love to get early access so they can drip feed information for social media cred. The bounty for an early iso of GTA VI would be astronomical.
I do however agree that releasing a ‘physical edition’ that’s just a code in a box is a waste of everyone’s time and money, not to mention materials destined for landfill.
My problem isn’t so much that the box is empty (though that’s part of it), but rather: Why sell an empty box in the first place? Why not focus on digital and stop wasting everyone’s time?
Because people still want to buy the box? And this makes it so you can’t resell it. So they are focusing on the part of digital they care about, no resell. While still getting sales that are bought as gifts or people that have a physical collection and want the case.
Resell what, the empty box??
Jesus fuck. Why don’t we make MMOs anymore? This hybrid “single player” game with online match making is the dumbest shit.
I mean… We do. Guild wars just announced their new MMO. One of my favorite MMOs just had a full release. Then of course, games like guild wars 2 and ffxiv are releasing expansions, and guild wars revived guild wars 1 with the promise of new content. Its certainly not the most popular genre and theres niches within it, but theyre being made and being played (by me)
If game > 30$ Game not worth the money and you shouldn’t buy it
That is the rule. I am not making exeptions and especialy not for AAA studio… I may be willing to go up to 40$ for a small indie team thats clearly steugleing and i rly love there vision, but thats as high as i would go.
Gonna have to disagree there! I’ve played many games that are worth more than $30 to me, and hell some of them were less than $30!
Money doesnt mean the same thing to everyone. 70$ isnt as much to you, but thats 13h worth of wage for me
Is that actually your wage in the US that’s awful.
Would be illegal in the USA. Unless they are giving an after tax value, I suppose, don’t feel like doing that math.
For the record, I didn’t say it isn’t much to me.
The ultimate edition doesn’t include anything important, but the whole premise that they can charge $20 for something that is already in the game and is artificially hidden from you doesn’t spark joy in my heart. I was going to wait for independent reviews anyway, but with this nonsense I’ll probably wait for a solid discount too. Besides, I don’t expect good performance on my non-pro PS5.
$114CAD for the standard edition and $142CAD for the ultimate edition, before taxes of course.
Go fuck yourselves, Rockstar. Not that I ever intended to actually buy this because, y’know, scummy greedy company, but this really seals the deal.
I was wondering about CAD, thanks.
