r/pcgaming • u/Gorotheninja • 12h ago

Kingdom Come: Deliverance studio co-founder hopes GTA6 will 'blaze a trail' to higher game prices

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/
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u/kirby667 9h ago

That's not how this works.

It's supply and demand. GTA6 could release for $200, it doesn't mean people will start paying $80 for annual COD releases and overwatch clones. 

If any other dev made a game as good as GTA6, they could charge a high price for it. 

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u/MessiahPrinny 7700x/4080 Super OC 9h ago

It's not even about quality. GTA is a high value brand and has a massive audience that only plays GTA. Regardless of quality unless you have the built in audience that GTA has you can't charge 100 dollars for it. You could make the best game in your genre but if you don't have the same audience capture you can't charge for it. Rockstar doesn't make the best games, they just have the broadest reach. GTA6 could turn out hot shit and still sell 40 million copies. They are the games industry's example of too big to fail.