{"id":93036,"date":"2026-11-13T11:37:29","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T16:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=93036"},"modified":"2026-11-13T12:38:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T17:38:25","slug":"gta-6-and-these-other-games-can-justify-an-80-price-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=93036","title":{"rendered":"GTA 6 And These Other Games Can Justify An $80 Price, Expert 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\/\">Grand Theft Auto 6<\/a> finally releases on November 19, and you&#8217;ll have to pay at least $80 for it. That&#8217;s a full $20 more than what GTA 5 cost in 2013 and $10 more than many other big AAA games today. Is $80 going to become the &#8220;new normal&#8221; for AAA games, or is it, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/nintendo-switch-2-game-prices-reach-staggering-80\/1100-6530563\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/nintendo-switch-2-game-prices-reach-staggering-80\/1100-6530563\/\">Nintendo&#8217;s Mario Kart World and Tears of the Kingdom for Switch 2<\/a>, an outlier at $80?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/superhys\/status\/2121261406381068675\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/superhys\/status\/2121261406381068675\">According to Alinea Analytics researcher Rhys Elliott<\/a>, $80 won&#8217;t be an across-the-board new price for all games. Some developers will purposefully price their games lower to draw in more consumers&#8211;he pointed to games like Expedition 33 ($50), Phantom Blade Zero ($60), and Oblivion Remastered ($50) as examples. <\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1958721\" 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\/11\/Ambrosia_06_a679c3.jpg?w=636\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1958721\" \/>A scene from GTA 6. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elliott said that when GTA 6 inevitably becomes a huge success with its $80 and $100 editions, some publishers will be &#8220;jumping for joy&#8221; because they&#8217;ll take this as a signal that the market will indeed accept these higher prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Elliott said he hopes the industry doesn&#8217;t learn the wrong lessons from GTA 6 and its $80 price point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rockstar&#8217;s Grand Theft Auto 6 finally releases on November 19, and you&#8217;ll have to pay at least $80 for it. That&#8217;s a full $20 more than what GTA 5 cost in 2013 and $10 more than many other big AAA games today. Is $80 going to become the &#8220;new normal&#8221; for AAA games, or is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":93038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93036","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\/93036"}],"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=93036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93039,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93036\/revisions\/93039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}