recent interview with GamesIndustry.biz<\/a>, Barbour says that gaming’s other annual hits could get hiked to $80 too. This includes games like Call of Duty, NBA 2K, and EA’s yearly sports games. These are the same exact titles that collectively raised game prices to $70 at the beginning of the console generation back in 2020.<\/p>\n“Maybe they wait a year to see how GTA does, or maybe they just rip the band-aid off. They already have some cover from some Switch 2 physical releases going to market at $80. But if you’re a mid-major publisher putting out a single-player-focused game, you’ll probably want to hang back in the previous $60-70 range for a while longer,” Barbour told GI.<\/p>\n
Others are more skeptical, and argue that GTA 6 establishes a new high water mark to shoot for–in other words, your game has to be as good or better than GTA 6 in order to match Rockstar’s $80 price, which is now a more premium gateway.<\/p>\n
“Publishers will now only be able to price their games at $80 if they match the quality and experience,” games expert and analyst Joost van Dreunen also tells GamesIndustry.biz.<\/p>\n
“What Rockstar and only a few others, like Nintendo and EA, can do is charge a premium for titles in a market characterized by a glut of content and risk-averse consumers. The games industry has developed a luxury tier, and in order to charge those prices, consumers will expect the highest quality experience.”<\/p>\n
No other major publishers have announced $80 games, but there were rumblings Borderlands 4 could be $80 some time ago, and Microsoft also tried to price The Outer Worlds 2 at $80 but later changed its mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GTA 6’s new $80 price tag may introduce a new mainline pricing model for AAA games moving forward,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,105],"class_list":["post-762929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}