Nearly all of GTA 6 followers consider that its worth shall be greater than $70, and so they’re placing their cash on it. This successfully signifies that many are bracing for Rockstar to announce that the sport will price $79.99, the identical price as Nintendo’s Mario Kart World in 2025. At the moment, there have been considerations from PS5 homeowners that this might increase the business commonplace price for video games from $70 to $80, and people considerations stay very a lot legitimate as we method Grand Theft Auto VI’s delayed launch date of November 19. However since then, a whole lot of builders and publishers have backed off the rise to $80. Rumors final 12 months that Grand Theft Auto 6 would price nearer to $90 and $100 have softened over the previous few months, although some nonetheless worry the sport may launch at these worth factors (and that many could be prepared to abdomen it).
Majority consider the GTA 6 worth shall be greater than regular
A stunning 61% consider that the worth for GTA 6 on PS5 shall be “greater than $70,” in keeping with a wager on Kalshi that has over $400,000 within the pot (as of March 25).
The complete unfold for the wager exhibits how contentious its price ticket has change into. Whereas greater than 95% suppose that its base worth shall be greater than $60, which is as about as protected of a prediction as you will get, a notable proportion of betters (29%) consider it should price greater than $80 (which successfully interprets to a doable $89.99). In the meantime, solely 6% are betting that it’s going to price greater than $90 and curiously a better proportion (11%) are taking pictures for the moon and suppose that it’s going to go over the $100 mark.
Trying on the historical past for the wager, which began in February 2025, it was largely predicted that GTA 6 could be nearer to the $80 worth level; that’s, till the start of 2026. From then to March 24, the forecast for its base worth has declined to $73.4 as extra folks have put their cash on the sport costing nearer to $70.
This comes off an late March interview that Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive, had with The Sport Enterprise the place he mentioned the potential of including promoting as a monetization technique in video games. He stated that it’s “very tough for me to consider that we might need to have interstitial promoting in a sport that somebody paid 70 or 80 bucks for.” Whereas this doesn’t outright affirm the worth for GTA 6, provided that Zelnick is talking extra broadly concerning the business, many are this response as a suggestion that it is going to be nearer to the $70 to $80 commonplace for a triple-A launch.
Provided that the sport has been in manufacturing for roughly 8 years and that improvement prices have risen in that point partly resulting from inflation, Rockstar could be justified in making the usual version for GTA 6 price $80 upfront. If there’s any sport that might moderately come out on the identical worth level as Mario Kart World and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom on Nintendo Change 2, it’s this one. Take-Two Interactive can also be recognized for pushing the bounds for microtransactions and different monetization schemes, notably of their catalog of sports activities titles. Anybody who needs to purchase the sport at a cheaper price can look forward to a sale.
That stated, Rockstar has many causes to maintain the sport at $70, if simply to keep away from the controversy across the $80 worth level. The deluxe and collector’s editions for GTA 6 will possible be close to the $100 mark anyway, and we are able to solely anticipate that its model of GTA On-line will proceed to rake in cash as a dwell service. Preserving the barrier of entry on the decrease finish would get extra gamers into the web mode sooner.
