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sick of GTA

"Yes, it would be a stupid, unnuanced, self-sabotaging conclusion for investors to draw, but boardroom capitalism is often an arena of nonsense and vibes." good thing games journalism isnt out here promoting rancid vibes and drawing that conclusion with "break even" type framing!!

ohhh games need money thank u for explaining that

They should just say it’s AI, or has AI, or something related to AI.

This image makes me happy. Like, yeah, I hope it doesn't! Enjoy all your awards and your Wikipedia number dick measuring contest in exchange for making the most expensive, morally-reprehensible nothingburger ever. Maybe then you'll STOP MAKING THEM.

Is GTA now the Tesla of games?

IGN is shill shitlord. GTA5 makes over 1 billion yearly since it came out, 2023... over 5 billion. IGN is a worthless source. www.statista.com/chart/31383/...

isn't it the case for every AAA game ??? Back in the day, i remember the same thing was said about Uncharted 4.

GTA 5 made a billion in its first three days in game sales alone. That's before shark cards and microtransactions and reselling all over again on the next gen of consoles. It's generated over $8billion now. They'll be fine.

It will probably break even after 2, maybe 3 days

What makes it "the biggest game"? Like, what's even the appeal of this? Who plays these games?

Breaking even is a failure to investors. Even making money is failure to investors. Investors want the company to make more money than it did last time, no matter how much that number is. That means you are fighting GTAV's rev plus the difference in production costs between V and VI.

The phrase "enough money" would lead many to believe it wont break even or that it wont make enourmous profit, when in reality it will easily do both of these things, what it wont do, is satiate the even increasing hunger of a bunch of billionare investors with a hording mental illness.

GTA online is making like a million dollar PER DAY, I expect at some point something similar for GTA 6 online.

It will make a hell of a lot more than a billion dollars. GTA5 has made well over 10 billion dollars in revenue over its lifespan and GTA6 will be the biggest selling game of all time without question. No story here really.

It doesn’t need to make back its money, not from game sales. They could easily sell it as a loss leader knowing they’ll make their money off GTA6 Online. If anything the sensible thing is to make it £59/$59 so that everybody buys it, which gets them in the  GTA 6 ecosystem ready for online to drop.

I bet it will

What if they tried releasing it 10 years ago?

Definitely avoiding this game like the plague.

Good thing they sell these games for over 10 years

Lol, lmao.

Breaking even isn’t a success with a project this size. They’d need triple whatever the budget is at this point

At least there's not any historical circumstances happening in the world that would affect how much money people have to spend on videogames. Instead of buying GTA6 I'll probably buy a few days of groceries or buy gas for the week (but not both).

It's not about the sales though, is it. It's about the shark cards.

this is madness

I love that we get absolutely amazing smaller budget games. But that $1B cost and decade of development means it MUST be amazing....watch the base game cost about $100. It's why I love E33, Alabaster Dawn, and all sorts of indie games, I can't wait for Mina the Hollower.

Success or failure, there are going to be severe layoffs, cuts, and over monetization. Every time, it will not win (especially now).

What did it take CIG to get to this point? Frankly, I doubt anyone *could* copy their success with STAR CITIZEN. They benefited from timing and a specific series of events, right when space games were unpopular, a popular game maker who had huge success a few decades prior, crowdfunding was new.

Well people have so much spare cash to throw around nowadays, especially for big purchases like a highly priced premium game that requires the latest hardware. Its probably just a good thing Rockstar will be releasing it in a time of economic prosperity, optimism and low prices for game systems.

If it's not available on PS4 I won't be buying it. 🤷‍♂️ I'm not doing digital download nonsense.

Can you also give me this week's lottery numbers? Thx

lmao

they aint gonna fuck you, son, you aint gotta try to dickride them so hard.

Well, "bad game" is subjective. And they haven't made anything actually new in fucking forever.

"Recent"?? They haven't put out a new game in almost a whole decade, and GTA6 has been taking even longer to develop.

Titanic was unsinkable

nevermind the hype. it's literally a mathematical impossibility at this point.

The quality of the game has very little to do with whether or not it “fails”, unless it’s completely broken (it won’t be) it’s going to be a sales success. RDR2 made 750 million dollars in 3 days, and this will be several times bigger. Whether or not it’s *as successful* as V is up in the air

Based on GTAVI Rockstar believes they should take 15 years and $3B to make, so they'd agree with you! 🤣

Someone should tell Rockstar to just make movies since that’s what they really want to do.

For me, GTA peeked with San Andreas. I'll probably play 6 but not rushing to buy it on release. There's plenty of games to enjoy out there.

Since GTA5, the series has made enough to develop at least five GTA6s. They'll be fine.

The online part of the game will continue to make them money for years. Gt5 made nearly $10b

I mean, they don't need to sell that I'm game sales alone. They'll also take in insane amounts from online.

Yeah but at least with those movies, there'll be technologies that can end up on other productions, so it's an engineering investment. with GTA it's going to be entirely on their engine that won't be licensed out

That's why it's just a gateway to GTA Online2, buy those Whale Cards whales!

Long before I read a single book on economy or politics, I noted the gaming industry. The crunchtime, consumer hostile DRM, the studios that get bought out & shut down, the microtransactions, the lootboxes. Remember Bullfrog, Maxis, Origin, Westwood and the rest?

This is exactly why "S-Tier" projects operate on a completely different set of rules. For a project of this scale, it's not about units sold anymore. Sales are just the onboarding phase. To actually recover that enormous allocated capital, it has to function as a long-tail value creation platform.

You know investors are not going to consider it a financial success when Rockstar already has press prepping them this long before the game comes out.

You're suggesting I go on a 100% media blackout until I finish the game so that PC gamers can be free to steal and run the game? No. Fuck that. Their shitty behavior shouldn't have any influence on my life, and it won't as long as their access is restricted for a while.

God forbid someone cheats in a single player campaign. God forbid someone wants to run a modded GTA RP server.

If you don't look those things up, they won't impact you in any way. That's a pretty weak argument. We know Rockstar is doing it so they can focus on PS5 players first, and then double-dip with a second sale on PC for those who want access to all the (better) PC features.

I honestly thought this was a Palette Swap article for a second.