{"id":84981,"date":"2026-06-25T13:38:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84981"},"modified":"2026-06-25T14:36:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:36:37","slug":"buying-gta-6-and-a-new-console-this-fall-you-better-be-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84981","title":{"rendered":"Buying GTA 6 And A New Console This Fall? You Better Be Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Grand Theft Auto 6 arrives on November 19, 2026, it will undoubtedly be one of the biggest&#8211;if not <em>the <\/em>biggest&#8211;entertainment launches in history. The game will, at least initially, only launch on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S consoles, which have been available for nearly six years. Typically, consoles that have been available for such a long time would be priced significantly lower than they were at launch, letting the current-gen stragglers pick up a console for a nice bargain when it&#8217;s time to play GTA 6. But nothing is &#8220;typical&#8221; anymore, and players face a very frustrating reality in 2026. Not only will you not get a discount as reward for your patience&#8211;you&#8217;re going to have to pay much more for a system that&#8217;s basically identical to the one released in 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s back up a little bit to examine what the situation was like in 2013, when Grand Theft Auto 5 arrived and became the most profitable entertainment product of all time. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 were on their last legs, with their successors scheduled to arrive just a few months after GTA 5&#8217;s launch. When the Xbox 360 first arrived in 2005, it was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Grand Theft Auto 6 arrives on November 19, 2026, it will undoubtedly be one of the biggest&#8211;if not the biggest&#8211;entertainment launches in history. The game will, at least initially, only launch on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S consoles, which have been available for nearly six years. Typically, consoles that have been available for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":84983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84984,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84981\/revisions\/84984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}