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oh dear boys and girls Gaming Bible is
at it again Rap TV Oh the place to go
for gaming news They’re back at it again
There is so much misinformation at the
moment happening around GTA 6 that I’ve
buried my head in the sand for like the
past 3 days cuz I just don’t want to
talk about it because I’m a primarily
GTA 6 focused channel and this has
absolutely precisely nothing to do with
GTA 6 So for those that don’t know
Nintendo have announced the Switch 2 and
Nintendo have said that there’s going to
be digital games and physical games and
the physical games are actually still
going to be codes to download the
digital games And of course both of
these things are really expensive up to
$90 in some instance Now in my opinion
this is absolutely ridiculous because
games like Mario aren’t games that
they’ve built from the ground up every
single year There’s a lot of things that
they re-release and they give it a
slightly different map or a different
style or a few different features and
they relist it as a brand new game and
charge the full exorbitant pricing when
I really doubt that they’ve spent the
money to really justify charging AAA
titles So I think that we’re well within
our right to criticize Nintendo and we
should But then there’s this whole
discourse happening on social media And
this is partially fueled by the Gaming
Bible and other articles saying stupid
things like GTA 6 price all but
confirmed off the back of Nintendo
making this announcement To be clear
it’s entirely possible that GTA 6 costs
$100 It is It fully is possible It’s
also entirely possible that GTA 6 is
completely free and they charge a
subscription service It’s also entirely
possible they charge $30 and include the
online as part of a subscription model
It’s also entirely possible that the
game just comes out as a flat rate of
$70 You know what else is possible every
single variation of everything in
between Everyone’s talking about the
pricing of games going up but no one’s
mentioning how most games are now free
because of live service models We can
maybe even entertain the idea that
Rockstar would do something really
stupid and make the story mode an online
service model 99% sure they won’t but
that’s more reasonable to have a
conversation about than GTA 6’s price
being all but confirmed There’s also a
lot of arguments that games are getting
more expensive year over year and it’s
getting to the point where games are not
affordable Now I can say categorically
it does feel like that and it’s only
true a little bit In relation to
inflation games are actually getting
cheaper All of the data out there from
games ranging back from the 1980s to now
say that over time in relation to
inflation games are getting cheaper
However pretty much everything else
according to inflation is getting more
expensive Minimum wage has gone up
significantly since games were in
development Maybe not at the same
proportions but producing AAA titles has
got significantly more expensive than it
was 40 years ago And when I say games
are getting more expensive to make they
really are The estimated budget for GTA
6 is around $2 billion And I did a full
video breaking this down of how they
actually got to this figure and where
that $2 billion number comes from And
using all the information from their
earnings reports and their expenditure
it’s not too hard to believe that it’ll
probably be more than $2 billion And GTA
Online makes around $500 million a year
But Rockstar spend around 260 million a
year just on salaries Never mind the
hundred million here or 100 million
there that they spend on buying new
businesses and all the other cost
associated with running a business
Whether that’s taxes overheads of
running properties If Rockstar sell a
game it’s not 100% profit If they sell a
game for example for $80 about $10 of
that is going straight away to the
PlayStation store On top of that they
have their taxes and then they have
their built-in cost of actually building
the game over that time period And to be
clear we actually have no evidence at
all to suggest that Rockstar in itself
has been profitable for years The amount
of money that they’ve been spending on
developing games and of course Take to
Interactive are funding the majority of
the development for Grand Theft Auto 6
And we know that there’s probably not a
massive amount of money sitting in
Rockstar’s own bank accounts And we know
this because Take2 Interactive one of
the biggest publishers in the world has
been dumping money into their games
developers for the past few years A lot
of the development of GTA 6 will be
funded by Take Interactive and the
investors to recoup at a later date If
Rockstar had billions and billions and
billions of dollars sat in the bank they
would release the game without investors
because they’d make more money They need
investors because games development is
expensive and they can’t just turn
around to investors and say “By the way
we’re going to choose to make oursel
less profitable and we’re only just
going to go past the point of break even
so people aren’t annoyed at us on
Twitter.” Now I’m not saying for a fact
that Rockstar aren’t profitable but
their earnings report versus their
expenditure don’t paint a pretty picture
of Rockstar being the richest company on
the planet In fact it’s looking quite
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in the UK Now back to the video The
reason why games feel like they’re
getting more expensive is because the
secondhand market is disappearing due to
digital games Most of the games that I
bought for my PlayStation 2 my PS3 and
my PS4 were secondhand You could go to
pretty much any gaming store and buy a
secondhand game That market doesn’t
exist anymore Games are digital that
market is very quickly going to the
point of obsolet where you need to buy
new games digital games So games in
general are getting more expensive but
new games themselves are definitely not
Now this [ __ ] is like borderline between
funny and depressing Cuz if you guys
recently watched the six-star podcast
with TG and Dark Viper they mentioned
that GTA creators are the punching bag
for the whole community especially at
the moment If any creator talks about
GTA 6 they’re immediately called Mr Boss
for the win But these artles can make up
complete bollocks and it’s perfectly
acceptable Like it’s so bad it’s almost
funny I’ve seen so many arguments online
saying that Rockstar if they were to
charge $100 for GTA 6 they shouldn’t be
allowed to do that because that’s going
to set a waring precedent where the
games developers would also charge $100
for their games Well in that case we
should all be rioting about BMW charging
$30,000 for their base vehicle where Kia
charge $13,000 for their base vehicle
Why don’t BMW sell their base vehicle
for the same price why is it double the
price the argument doesn’t really work
When it comes to the economics of games
development I’m not going to pretend I
know all about it But it’s very clear
that the time and money gone into a game
will affect the retail price for the
game And there is the argument to be
made that yes GTA 6 is going to be worth
$100 Of course it is Like let’s not lie
I think I’ve worked out the other day
and it works out about 2 cents a day is
how much the game would cost you to play
over the lifespan of the game But at the
same time people and households do have
less income So I get it I get it I
understand it But on the same token
should you get paid less at work because
at the moment import taxes are going up
for businesses and the cost of running a
business has gone up should you take
that hit because of what’s happened with
the global economy the same way that
should Rockstar take the hit because of
other things happening outside their
economy When it comes to businesses it’s
really difficult to say what’s right and
wrong And I have seen the argument
presented that with GTA 6 having
microtransactions and stuff they should
charge less for the game And I am fully
on that camp and I believe that’s 100%
correct But a lot of people I’ve seen
even other British YouTubers talk about
this saying that people’s parents
wouldn’t buy them the game if it was
$100 Well in the UK the game’s going to
be 18 plus the same as GTA 5 was And to
actually pay for the microtransactions
in the game you’re supposed to be 18
plus as well And yes in stores in the UK
for you to buy this game they do ask for
your ID There’s so much nuance and
complexity to this that there’s
arguments for every single thing And I’m
not saying I’m even right I’m just
saying that there is so many different
variations and different ways to look at
this that I’m more than happy to be
proven wrong on Please in the comments
elaborate But rather than directing that
anger towards Rockstar for something
that they haven’t even announced yet or
said anything about yet we should be
directing that attention back onto
Nintendo because they’re setting a
waring precedent Charging $90 for a game
that is not really that different from
the previous one that’s going to
encourage other games developers to
charge more for their games Rockstar
charging more for their games may
encourage other games developers to
charge more maybe but then we can just
redirect that attention back to the
games developers that are charging too
much for their games that aren’t worth
it I think this whole discourse is
actually going the opposite direction
and causing damage to the games industry
If people say there’s a blanket ban and
people are not happy to spend more than
maybe $60 on games games developers the
first conversation that they’ll have at
their board meetings is saying “Right we
can actually only sell this game for $60
and we know that we can only sell this
many copies of the game So here’s the
budget for the game and we’re massively
reducing what that budget can be because
we can’t take such a big risk.” By
making the statement out there that a
game can only be worth so much we’re
immediately going to get developers to
spend less time less money less
resources and innovate less on games We
should be criticizing the games that are
worth $20 that are being sold for $100
Yes of course we should cuz there’s no
value in that But setting a limit on
what a game can ever be worth is
genuinely stupid I really do challenge
any avid GTA player that has been
playing GTA for the past 10 years to say
that $100 is a bad value proposition for
a game But once again we are now down
speculation street because Rockstar
haven’t [ __ ] said anything about the
prices for GTA 6 yet I’ve noticed this
slow but sure shift in the GTA community
to nothing but anger to anything to do
with GTA 6 And it’s got to the point
where a lot of stupid arguments are
being made Maybe some of them have been
made by me I don’t know if you can tell
me But there’s a lot of stupid arguments
that are being made and it is just crazy
Like I’ve spoken to various people in
the industry and it’s it’s it’s
hilarious how far people will go to be
angry for something that isn’t even true
Like you see it all the time All the
stuff about GTA 6 being woke I did a
full video debunking that in every
single asset Like going through every
single claim made about GTA 6 their
employees who they’re hiring and
everything And I debunked the entire
thing But there is still people making
literally $30 to $50,000 off video
series calling the game woke and loads
of idiots just eat it up because it’s
easier just to believe what people like
in Indeon or Andy Pants say on the
internet than it is to actually just go
and Google the information A good
example of this rage baiting culture is
this argument that GTA 6 is woke and llo
Jones left the GTA series because he was
worried about how woke and fearful
Rockstar were becoming and how they tone
down the humor And there was this whole
like 15inute rant about it from multiple
different creators when the reason why
llo left Rockstar is because his sister
had terminal cancer Like it was one
Google search to find the interview that
LLO did about it and he explained all
his reasons for leaving and nothing were
to do with working conditions at
Rockstar And it’s little things like
this where news articles and various GTA
accounts on like Twitter and stuff will
bring up stuff about the price of GTA 6
because Nintendo did something And this
causes a whole thread of negativity And
I pretty much laughed this off in a post
myself just saying this is ridiculous
Like comparing the two together is silly
Now when GTA 6 has its price announced
if it is $100 and we’ve played the game
for a year and we decide oh my god this
game’s woke garbage whatever it even
means at this point then of course we
have that conversation and say “Rockstar
what the hell are you doing?” I’m not
shy of calling Rockstar out for some of
their more exploitative tactics I’ve
done it many times on the channel and
I’m not going to shy away from it But
let’s actually call games developers out
on things they’ve done rather than
things that they maybe perhaps possibly
might in a blue moon maybe once every
now and again could possibly might have
a chance to maybe do one day if maybe So
yeah that was the most stupid GTA 6 news
I’ve ever seen Thank you so much for
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