#gta-6-pricing

#gta-6-pricing

Players who spent money on the free-to-play shooter's battle pass or skin shop were greeted on March 17 with emails from Sony notifying them that money they'd spent on the game had been returned to their accounts. It's unclear if everyone who ever spent money on is getting it back or only those players who invested after Wildlight Entertainment announced layoffs just a few weeks after launch.

Steam's chart was designed to communicate that more games than ever are seeing revenue of over $100,000 per year. This, were it so clear cut, would be splendid news. According to the chart, in 2020 just 3,000 games "earned" $100k, but by 2025 that number had reached 5,863. Let's call it 6,000 for ease. That means twice as many games are hitting this figure compared to five years ago.

Steam-led PC growth will lead to PC games sales overtaking consoles' total game sales revenue by 2028. To clarify, that's not some kind of medium statistic- Newzoo projects that PC game sales will overtake the game sales of the Nintendo Switch 2, the PlayStation 5, and the Xbox Series S/X by 2028.

Microsoft's Forza Horizon 5 continues to be a huge hit on PlayStation, it seems. Research from Alinea Analytics claims that the game just recently passed 5 million copies sold on PS5. This works out to more than $300 million in revenue on PS5 alone for the 2021 game. Alinea's Rhys Elliott said this data proves why Microsoft is keen to release more of its own games on a rival platform like Sony's PS5.

New Xbox boss Asha Sharma recently confirmed the Project Helix codename for the next Xbox, adding that it will "lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games." Which immediately raised huge questions about how that could actually be an Xbox console in any meaningful sense, rather than just yet another rebranding of a PC that runs an Xbox-like UI.

In the UK, 70 may not gurantee quality, but it tends to mean you are getting a blockbuster or "AAA" - a big-budget game made by a large team, built around cutting-edge graphics, sprawling worlds and dozens of hours of gameplay. In 2025 Nintendo set a new benchmark for game prices when it listed major Switch titles such as Mario Kart World at 74.99 (launching in the US at $79.99).

From a simple tweet to a mural in NYC to a trailer delayed by a massive hurricane, here's the complete marketing timeline for GTA V Grand Theft Auto V launched over a decade ago on Xbox 360 and PS3 in September 2013. And its sequel, the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto 6, is seemingly, finally, actually, for real, launching this November.

Bloomberg reports that the gaming chat platform "filed confidentially for an initial public offering." While that doesn't guarantee it will move forward with a Wall Street stock offering, it does suggest the company has moved another rung up the ladder toward enshittification. Discord recently boasted over 200 million monthly users and has promised to remain a user-first enterprise that doesn't monetize its audience for short-term gain. We'll see!

Rockstar Games has just launched the Cfx Marketplace, described as "a curated digital storefront" which will allow a select group of creators "to share and sell" mods for both Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption II . Rockstar Games, and by extension its parent company Take-Two Interactive, has a harsh and often litigious relationship with its modding community. Although the developer has never truly been supportive of modding efforts for its games,

Now, keep in mind, these are not official numbers as Xbox doesn't share sales data these days. Instead, Alinea use their own magic formulas and weird rituals to estimate the numbers. So far, the company's data has proven to be very accurate, but it is not without mistakes or controversies regarding its calculation methods. The biggest success was Forza Horizon 5, which Alinea reported on last week, stating that the open-world racer sold a whopping 5.1 million copies on PlayStation.

Xbox released a lot of big games in 2025. It was one of the only good bits of Xbox-related news from last year. And in 2026, it will release new entries in four of its oldest franchises: Forza, Gears, Halo, and Fable. But new reporting indicates that while these projects, and others including a Fallout 3 remaster, are on track, Xbox is trying to avoid Grand Theft Auto 6 's big launch in November.

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