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GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour (www.forbes.com)
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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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[–] Koordinator_O 8 points 1 year ago

Game companies make profits unrivaled by any other industry and all we hear is "it's not economic to sell a game for 60 bucks." Now there are microtransactions and those profits skyrocketet. Now even that is still not enough. It's just Ridiculous.