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GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour (www.forbes.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/games
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While Take-Two is riding high on their announcement that a GTA 6 trailer is coming, its CEO has some…interesting ideas on how much video games could cost, part of a contingent of executives that believe games are underpriced, given their cost, length or some combination of the two.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because they offer thousands of hours of play time? Like seriously, all the things you could say against this idea and you choose to go go with "But GTA, one of the games with the most lively open worlds, where you can do so much exploring and random stuff, doesnt have much play time"

[–] courval 8 points 1 year ago

I don't think he said that.. I think he meant playtime is overpriced which considering the amount of people worldwide that play gta and the profit ratios it definitely is