The catch is: code in a box only (if sold physically) as it’s not being sold as a disc nor cartridge. Vote with your wallet, is it worth funding Rockstar knowing they won’t ever release this as a physical game (digital only title)? Is the Ultimate Edition (in game stores are locked under a real pay-wall) a rip off if you’ve pre-ordered it being aware of what it offers in return of taking your money?
Will it be a good game? Who knows. Will it shatter sales records because a fuckton of people pre-ordered as soon as they announced it? Yes.
Do you know how utterly precedent shatteringly successful GTA 5 has been? It has profit equitable to the GDP of a small country. GTA 6 could be a cardboard box with pen scribbled on it and it would be profitable from minute 1 of launch.
This isn’t even a question
Rockstar claims the budget for the game (perhaps including online, perhaps not) is somewhere south of $1.5B (that’s BILLION, with a B). They’ve already made $1.2B in pre-order sales alone. The chances of this game flopping are almost negative.
What is it worth to me? It would be worth the $80 they’re charging if they released it on PC this year. Now I have to navigate Game of the Year podcasts and spoiler discussions until the PC version comes out next year, which lowers how much I’m willing to pay for it.
I have to admit that they got me with this shit-ass strategy. I bought a used $380 Series X just for GTAVI. I won’t be able to sell the $100 fucking digital only game, but I’ll be able to sell the console when it comes out on PC.
Hell, maybe I’ll make money if consoles keep going up in price. I’m not depressed, you are.
Of course it’s going to make millions.
Not because of it being good. Not because of the hype. Not because of the issues and controversy.
It’s because gamers. are. gullible.
I know that the general, at least vocalized, attitude towards the game here on Lemmy is negative but… you don’t have to like the game personally to see that it’s going to smash records. If you genuinely think GTA 6 is going to flop, you are disconnected from reality.
For myself, I am not picking it up on PS5, though I’ll be honest about the FOMO being tough to resist. Really, if I was in a slightly different place in my life right now, I would probably cave and buy it. As it is, I plan on picking it up on PC when it’s at least 30% off. I think it looks incredible from everything we’ve seen so far, and I haven’t disliked any GTA so far.
I’ll get it when it’s $50 or less on PC
It will probably be a good time and lots of laughs. GTA5 was a lot of fun but I waited for it and I never regretted that
I don’t think I will ever buy a game for more than $50
For a company it’s purely sales numbers and by that measurement it’s already a huge success and it’s not even out yet.
Bro it has sold 12m copies already, and it’s a week from release.
It’s definitely going to be a commercial success (already is from pre-orders), and even if the gameplay is mid af, it’s going to be glazed by every major review source.
It will be a success just on it’s name alone. It being good or bad doesn’t matter. That being said. I want it to flop.
Game sold millions already and made almost a billion Dollar on pre-order. The previous game is one of the best selling games and is played by casual players a lot too. GTA is like on Pokemon level, but for adults (off course not by gameplay, but by popularity).
It’s too big to fail. How on earth can it be a flop?
I don’t know, it looks too serious. I liked the cartoonish tone of GTA5.
The writer of every previous GTA left Rockstar before they started 6, so I also don’t know if the story will actually be on par with the previous games. Tho, it really shouldn’t be hard to emulate if the new writer(s) are fans of action movies; all the previous games were built off taking bits and pieces from action films. Shit, Vice City was basically just the entirety of Scarface.
I know a lot of people excited for it with some planning on taking release day off. My opinion is that rockstar can fuck off, but I don’t think that’s a majority opinion
i see a ton of people irl get super excited for gta 6. personally, i’m not gonna play it (i don’t care about it + i don’t have any hardware that can run it + fuck rockstar), but i think it’s guaranteed that it will sell well. what remains to be seen is if it will make back its budget, i think it likely will but you never know.
