GTA 6 LIVE: Game will cost ‘$100 or more’ claims another analyst

Game will cost “$100 or more” claims another analyst

Another analyst has claimed Rockstar may be looking to sell individual copies of GTA 6 at “$100 or more”.

At the start of the year, investment analyst and researcher Matthew Ball of Epyllion released a huge 219 page report called The State of Video Gaming in 2025 and it included how GTA 6 being priced at $80 or even $100 could help the whole industry. Ball claimed this is being hoped by other developers.

Now a research note by Michael Pachter, managing director of equity research at Wedbush Securities, seen by Video Games Chronicle (VGC) claims Rockstar is planning a “previously unheard of price point”.

He wrote: “We think the company has plans to sell the game at a previously unheard of price point and suspect that management can offer consumers an incentive to pay $100 or more per unit by rewarding them with a large amount of in-game currency to be spent in GTA Online.

“There is precedent for integrating an online game experience with a premium game, as Activision did so with both Call of Duty: Warzone and Call of Duty Mobile content prior to the release of its annual Call of Duty premium instalment.

“In Activision’s case, the integration led to a 40 per cent increase in sales of Call of Duty premium; in Take-Two’s case, we think a successful integration of GTA Online and GTA 6 can lead to a $100 price point for the premium game.”

Take-Two was among the first to raise the price of its AAA games from $60 to $70 in 2020 which is now currently the industry standard.

But with GTA 4, GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2, the online mode for each comes with the purchase of the game.

Players later had the option to buy and play GTA Online and RDR Online if they did not want to play through the single-player campaign.

The price of GTA 6 has not been confirmed – this is all speculation at this time.

GTA 6 news imminent? 

Speculation seems to be swirling again about Rockstar Games gearing up for an announcement about GTA 6 of some sort.

Fans are hopeful there will be news of a second trailer, a release date or screenshots soon.

This is because some think with GTA 5‘s free PC upgrade and an update for GTA Online called Oscar Guzman Flies Again both being released on March 4, the way has been cleared for Rockstar to start fully marketing GTA 6 ahead of its release in Autumn.

Rockstar’s Instagram account has been “cleared” again too with the number of posts on its page back down to 12 and this always sparks speculation that the studio is gearing up to share news.

Fans also think with Red Dead Redemption recently releasing for PC that Rockstar doesn’t have much left to announce aside from GTA 6 content.

To be clear, none of this has been confirmed by Rockstar.

Rockstar ‘cleans up’ Instagram

Rockstar Games frequently deletes some of its Instagram posts, usually ones about GTA Online updates or older announcements.

Every time the studio does so, it sparks speculation that Rockstar is preparing an announcement of some sort.

The free upgrade for GTA 5 has just gone live for PC, along with new content for all players in the Oscar Guzman Flies Again update.

With Rockstar “cleaning up” its Instagram once more and speculation swirling that recent announcements clear the way for GTA 6 news, hope seems to be building once again.

A Redditor posted a screenshot of Rockstar’s Instagram page in the Subreddit and a number of users have been commenting with their thoughts.

But some are not convinced.

Dund3rGuy said: “Making room for double XP event in GTA Online.”

Mk62013 said: “GTA Online post incoming.”

Others are more hopeful.

ToppleToes said: “What else do they have to announce? They announced RDR for PC, new GTA Online DLC, Enhanced on PC. Surely the next big announcement is going to be for the second trailer. I honestly can’t see Rockstar going past April without the second trailer.”

SWSIMTReverseFinn said: “They’re gonna have to say something at some point. This thing is supposed to release in like seven months.”

GTA 5 free upgrade for PC is live

The free GTA 5 upgrade for PC players is now live.

It brings all the features and updates that were added in the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S versions of the game to PC.

A number of gamers who have played the upgrade on PC already are amazed at how much better the game looks through the use of ray-traced global illumination, a realistic and dynamic way for how lighting behaves in games.

One user said it looks “really GTA 6 like”.

‘Alligators are gonna be sick in this game’

Dlamm10 has posted in the GTA 6 Subreddit about alligators featuring and their role in the game.

The user said: “The alligators are gonna be sick in this game. They’re a really cool part of the map in RDR2. I wonder if you’ll be able to sell gators and snakes for $$ like they do in the south?”

The post is proving popular with 7.7k upvotes at the time of writing and hundreds of comments.

Ok_Experience_9851 said: “If they don’t carry over the hunting and foraging mechanics from RDR2, I will be royally disappointed.”

ReverieXII said: “I’m honestly excited to explore the wildlife in this game. Rockstar is the best when it comes to designing immersive and interactive open worlds.”

Ok_Cardiologist_54 said: “I imagine they will make the golfing side activity a lot more interesting 😂”

‘GTA 4 remaster next?’

A prominent GTA 6 and Rockstar Games account has questioned what the studio acquiring Video Games Deluxe means going forward in terms of which titles could be remastered.

@GTAVI_Countdown posted on X / Twitter: “GTA 4 remaster next? 👀”

Specific games being remastered is currently nothing more than speculation at present but there is a lot of chatter online about this, especially with Video Games Deluxe having worked on LA Noire and the GTA: The Trilogy – Definitive Edition mobile port.

Rockstar Games buys remaster trilogy developer Video Games Deluxe

Rockstar Games has acquired Video Games Deluxe, a developer that worked on the mobile ports of GTA: The Trilogy – Definitive Edition.

That bundle was originally developed by Grove Street Games but it did not go down well when it launched in 2021 due to huge bugs and performance issues with a few fixes and improvements being rolled out slowly after that.

Video Games Deluxe ported this trilogy onto mobile with a number of key fixes and upgrades, so much so that it ran better than the original console trilogy in many ways.

It seems that when GTA: The Trilogy – Definitive Edition was unexpectedly updated on consoles last year, this was delivered by Video Games Deluxe and not Grove Street Games, whose name was controversially removed from the opening credits.