A $100 price rise for video games is good for everyone – Reader’s Feature
A $100 price rise for video games is good for everyone – Reader’s Feature
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A reader argues that rumours of GTA 6 costing up to £100 could be good for gaming, if it ends the need for live service games and microtransactions. There’s a lot of rumours that go around in the video game world and a lot of them seem to come true… just ask Nintendo. One that’s been around for a while now is the idea that Rockstar Games is going to charge $100 (so likely £100) for GTA 6. It was just a rumour and not from one of the better sources, so a lot of people dismissed it – even though you can totally imagine it as something they’d want to do.
![[Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 screenshot]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/SEI_228348071-45bb.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
Now, this week, I read that analysts have ‘hope’ that not only is GTA 6 going to cost that much but that other games will be able to charge that much as well and the ones that can’t justify it can at least increase their price by $10/£10. So £80 would probably become the new norm, with £100 reserved for the very biggest games (I’d imagine Call Of Duty and EA Sports FC, for example).
![[Aitana Bonmatí and Antoine Griezmann battle for the ball.]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/SEI_227745884-4fc5.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=600)
I honestly think this would be a good thing. I know what you’re thinking but hear me out, because I know I’m not the first to say that games need a price rise, and that they’ve become completely disconnected from the amount of time and money need to make them. Which is why we have so few new ideas and too many microtransactions.
The most obvious argument in favour of a price rise is that games have barely increased in price since they were invented. Back in the day, new SNES games were either £50 or £60, so prices actually went down at the start of the PlayStation era. I don’t remember how much Starwing (aka Star Fox) was at the time, but I do know it was more expensive than even that.
