GTA 6's $200 Price Take Romanticizes the Worst Part of AAA Game Development
Analyst and Stratechery founder Ben Thompson recently made waves on the tech business show TBPN, saying he thinks Grand Theft Auto 6 should cost $200. Of course, that is a uniquely bad idea for a number of reasons, but the most revealing part of his argument actually relied on cigarette butts. Thompson described a stor...
Analyst and Stratechery founder Ben Thompson recently made waves on the tech business show TBPN, saying he thinks Grand Theft Auto 6 should cost $200. Of course, that is a uniquely bad idea for a number of reasons, but the most revealing part of his argument actually relied on cigarette butts. Thompson described a story that went viral last month, in which an online sleuth outside of Rockstar's offices supposedly counted the discarded filters just to estimate the team's stress level ahead of Grand Theft Auto 6’s third trailer and eventual release on November 19.
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