With GTA 6 setting its price point at $80, the general consensus is that it may be a trendsetter that will encourage more publishers to sell their games at this new baseline MSRP. According to analysts, while this new sticker price baseline is possible, only a handful of games might be able to get away with it.
Speaking to GamesRadar, DFC Intelligence's David Cole believes that $80 games will become more commonplace over time, thanks partly to GTA 6 and Nintendo being the first company to wade into these waters with Mario Kart World. "The issue is there are only a handful of premium games that command this price point," Cole explained, adding that "only the most in-demand games with a built-in initial audience" will have the sway to convince people to pay extra for them.
Business professor and author, Joost van Dreunen, echoed those beliefs on his Substack, saying that studios attempting to charge $80 on games that don't offer the same perception of value "will likely come to reg
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