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I am not too interested in GTA6. Usually get GTA games much later after their prices have dropped significantly. But would be fine paying $100 per high-budget (AAA) game, if and only if micro-transactions are heavily limited/non-existent and expansion packs/DLC are free unless it is a major enough expansion to be a game in its own right (think Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna The Golden Country) and said expansion is sold at a proportional price based on content vs. main game.

A lot of the bad trends in the gaming industry are exacerbated by the fact that game prices have been somewhat declining over the last few decades when accounting for inflation. 

$60 in January 2020 is about $73.40 in December 2024. The end of that year we saw AAA game prices jump to $70. So games are slightly cheaper now than in the beginning of 2020. 

$100 would put us about where games cost in the early 90's. 

$80 seems more realistic of a price than $100 given that cartridges were more expensive than discs/downloads, but I wouldn't mind $90 or $100 if the conditions earlier in my post were met. 

Last edited by sc94597 - on 21 January 2025