{"id":92416,"date":"2026-11-02T11:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T16:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92416"},"modified":"2026-11-02T11:36:41","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T16:36:41","slug":"gta-6-buying-guide-get-ready-for-sticker-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92416","title":{"rendered":"GTA 6 Buying Guide: Get Ready For Sticker Shock"},"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\/\">GTA 6<\/a> finally releases on November 19, and if you&#8217;re looking to play the game, you&#8217;ll also need a console&#8211;and those are more expensive than ever. Here&#8217;s a quick buying guide to help you understand what you need and how much the items will cost.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> A console <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, you&#8217;ll need a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X|S console. The least expensive option for buying a new system outright is the Xbox Series S, which costs $500. Unfortunately, that&#8217;s $200 more expensive than the system cost at launch in 2020&#8211;there are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/why-are-video-game-consoles-so-expensive-these-days-and-games-historically-cheap\/\">a number macroeconomic and AI factors that drove prices up significantly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new Xbox Series X, meanwhile, costs $750 for a system with no disc drive, or $800 for a console with a disc drive. GTA 6 is not available on a disc, but having a disc drive may still be important to you for other games and media like DVDs and Blu-rays.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Switching to PlayStation, the least expensive system on Sony&#8217;s side is the $600 digital edition, scaling up to $900 for a PS5 Pro (with a disc drive).\u00a0PS5 Pro, as the most powerful of these options, is likely to provide the best experience from a technical and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rockstar&#8217;s GTA 6 finally releases on November 19, and if you&#8217;re looking to play the game, you&#8217;ll also need a console&#8211;and those are more expensive than ever. Here&#8217;s a quick buying guide to help you understand what you need and how much the items will cost.\u00a0 A console First, you&#8217;ll need a PlayStation 5 or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":92418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92416","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\/92416"}],"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=92416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92419,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92416\/revisions\/92419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}