{"id":92884,"date":"2026-11-10T15:14:55","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T20:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92884"},"modified":"2026-11-10T15:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T20:40:13","slug":"amid-higher-gas-and-grocery-prices-gta-6-is-a-bargain-at-80-take-two-ceo-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92884","title":{"rendered":"Amid Higher Gas And Grocery Prices, GTA 6 Is A \u201cBargain\u201d At $80, Take-Two CEO Says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s no secret that life is expensive. Gas and grocery prices are up, in particular, and against that backdrop, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick believes <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> at $80 is a &#8220;bargain&#8221; due to how many hours people can play it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I think the consumer is under pressure. these are challenging times. Inflation has hit average consumers. Food prices are up. Gas prices are way up, and it&#8217;s taking a toll,&#8221; he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2026\/11\/10\/take-two-ceo-strauss-zelnick-on-gta-vi-an-extraordinary-experience-unlike-anything-weve-seen-before.html?__source=twitter%7Csquawkbox\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2026\/11\/10\/take-two-ceo-strauss-zelnick-on-gta-vi-an-extraordinary-experience-unlike-anything-weve-seen-before.html?__source=twitter%7Csquawkbox\">CNBC<\/a>. &#8220;I think we are going to see that as we head into the Christmas season undoubtedly. Entertainment is not immune to such forces.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l0xfY9UQ74A  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What gives Zelnick hope in this environment is that, in his belief, &#8220;interactive entertainment is actually a real bargain,&#8221; and particularly a game like GTA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;There are so many hours of engagement on offer. Even a short video game is 10 hours of engagement on the low end. You can play Grand Theft Auto 5 for hundreds of hours and not get bored. We&#8217;ll see how people feel about Grand Theft Auto 6, but I believe that you&#8217;ll be able to engage for an extraordinary long period of time,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So if consumers look at entertainment value as the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that life is expensive. Gas and grocery prices are up, in particular, and against that backdrop, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick believes GTA 6 at $80 is a &#8220;bargain&#8221; due to how many hours people can play it. &#8220;I think the consumer is under pressure. these are challenging times. Inflation has hit average&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":92886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92884","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\/92884"}],"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=92884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92887,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92884\/revisions\/92887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}