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Rockstar Games regarding Grand Theft Auto VI (twitter.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We are very excited to let you know now that in early December, we will release the first trailer for the next Grand Theft Auto. We look forward to many more years of sharing these experiences with all of you.

Thank you,
Sam Houser

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All that multiplayer bullshit subsidies the single player campaign.

??? What? How?

The game isn't free – singleplayer or multiplayer(well it was free on Epic Games Store for that one week, but that was years into the game's release).

It earned $800 million on release day and $1 billion in 3 days. I don't think a lot of people would have bought Shark cards at that time.

Then there's all the sales after the first 3 days, the release on PS4/Xbox One/PC, and then the re-release on PS5/Xbox Series.

This article claims they made ~$8 billion in revenue from GTA V as of Q1 FY23. I know games are expensive to make, but surely they don't cost billions – to a point where their singleplayer campaign needs to be "subsidized"?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

That said, it cost 300 million to makes and 5 years to develop. Getting a return in the billions after 10 years is expected, otherwise they might as well save all that time and energy, and massive financial risk, and just buy conservative ETFs with that 300 million and sit at the beach.