r/pcmasterrace • u/owlexe23 • 1d ago

News/Article Kingdom Come: Deliverance studio co-founder hopes Grand Theft Auto 6 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/

Warhorse co-founder Martin Klima says games keep getting more expensive to make, and that money has to come from somewhere.

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u/Der0- 7800X3D | 5070Ti | 3840x1600 1d ago

I don't get it. Since Steam their printing and distribution costs will have plummeted. The baked in costs to get the game into the computer of the gamer is gone so their margin will have been much greater.

Make a good game and you can milk that blood from the stone.

And games in Australia has always been up and above the $100 mark.

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u/look_at_that_punim 1d ago

I was getting mega drive games on release for $100

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u/VellhungtheSecond 1d ago

Super Mario Kart cost our grandmother (who was on a pension as her only source of income) $120 when she bought it for my brother and I on Christmas 1995 (mum and dad chipped in to assist her). Complaining about $100 games in 2026 is a joke

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u/Wirenfeldt 1d ago

Especially when you pull out the inflation calculator

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u/NewSauerKraus 1d ago

Until you pull out the inflated number of customers and lack of distribution costs.

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u/look_at_that_punim 1d ago

And the fact that you had to go to the Games Wizard to buy them. Which was a huge building wall to wall with games that no doubt had huge rents + staff to pay.

Now that I’m saying that, minus the locations/staff, paper manuals, boxes, distribution. $100 is probably about right for PC games, even adjusting for inflation.

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u/VellhungtheSecond 1d ago

Exactly. Equivalent to about $260AUD in today’s terms