{"id":90546,"date":"2026-10-02T13:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T17:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90546"},"modified":"2026-10-02T13:43:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T17:43:36","slug":"gta-6-should-blaze-a-trail-to-more-expensive-games-dev-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90546","title":{"rendered":"GTA 6 Should \u201cBlaze A Trail\u201d To More Expensive Games, Dev Says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rockstar&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gta-6-guides-hub-how-to-do-everything-in-grand-theft-auto-6\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gta-6-guides-hub-how-to-do-everything-in-grand-theft-auto-6\/\">GTA 6<\/a> is priced at $80 for its standard edition. Another voice has come forward to say they hope other teams follow suit and charge more for new games to help the industry at a time when developers are closing up shop, cancelling games, and laying off developers on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Martin Klima, the co-founder of Kingdom Come developer Warhorse, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/grand-theft-auto\/kingdom-come-deliverance-studio-co-founder-hopes-grand-theft-auto-6-will-blaze-a-trail-to-higher-game-prices\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/grand-theft-auto\/kingdom-come-deliverance-studio-co-founder-hopes-grand-theft-auto-6-will-blaze-a-trail-to-higher-game-prices\/\">PC Gamer<\/a> that raising unit prices would &#8220;help a lot,&#8221; but &#8220;everybody&#8217;s scared to death&#8221; to do it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Now, hopefully, GTA will blaze the trail, and it will allow us to increase the cost,&#8221; he said, adding that Rockstar and Take-Two are among the only companies who can &#8220;afford, or who can dare&#8221; to raise prices in this way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added that price increases for new games are &#8220;long overdue and also necessary for this business to survive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1904488\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ambrosia_05_3fee31.jpg?w=636\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1904488\" \/>GTA 6 should kick off a trend of games costing more, Warhorse co-founder says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Take-Two was among the first big publishers to drive prices up from $60 to $70, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/take-two-ceo-defends-nba-2k21s-price-increase\/1100-6482168\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/take-two-ceo-defends-nba-2k21s-price-increase\/1100-6482168\/\">kicking this off with NBA 2K21 in 2020.<\/a> Numerous other publishers followed suit, and now $70 is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rockstar&#8217;s GTA 6 is priced at $80 for its standard edition. Another voice has come forward to say they hope other teams follow suit and charge more for new games to help the industry at a time when developers are closing up shop, cancelling games, and laying off developers on a regular basis. Martin Klima,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":90548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90546","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\/90546"}],"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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90549,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90546\/revisions\/90549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}