The price increase of $ 80 for Xbox games and GTA 6's delay has a fearing reader that the video game industry as we know it is coming to an end.
I started to write this thought that I was only going to complain about the prices of Xbox prices. And then I saw the news of GTA 6's delay. It was completely the week.
Many people thought that GTA 6 had to be delayed, given the total lack of information, so it was not a surprise. Although this means that we can now ignore everything that is for two say in the future, given what they said about the release date. If it was a few months, I could understand that they were just trying to be optimistic, but more than a year? It is not the kind of delay that slips on you.
Whether you are upset or not, the delay alone will have a great effect on the game as a whole, but the fact that Microsoft also evolves towards $ 80 like the cost of its games. And as they are too embarrassed to say what is the price in the United Kingdom, I will hold for granted that it means £ 80 here.
You don't need me to tell you that £ 80 is too much. You can talk about how it is compared to films and concerts, and all these other things, and I would agree: in proportion, video games are a better value for money. But that's not the point. The fact is that £ 80 is a large part of the money, it excludes all the biggest games for everyone, which is almost where we are now anyway.
We constantly hear that no one buys new games, except Call of Duty and EA Sports FC, and most people stick to the same game for years, constantly buying more cosmetics and other microtransaction waste. What they withdraw from what I could not start to imagine, but it has already put the gaming industry on his knees.
Now, we have Microsoft's announcement, which will not only make impulsive purchases of the past, but throw people from the idea to buy video games entirely and put them in their heads as something too expensive and that is no longer worth it. Unless they are free garbage.
Of course, Microsoft will not be the last to announce a price increase. Nintendo already has and Sony probably only delayed to try to make Xbox are bad. Other publishers will champland themselves in the bit, and I imagine that if Call of Duty and EA Sports FC are not £ 80 this year, they will be next year (EA could take their time, since EA Sports FC 25 was a bit of a failure).
And then we have GTA 6. Everyone has already accepted the fact that it will cost at least £ 80 and probably £ 100 or more. And other publishers will immediately jump on this and think: “If they can do it, why not us?”
My other concern with GTA 6, is that if most people are already playing only the same matches, what will happen when all the repressed desire of 13 years crashes on earth with GTA 6?
The game will be the best -selling game of all time, of course, but if it is even half as involved as GTA 5, people will play forever. It will become THE Game. It will be so popular that it is literally unnecessary to release something else because even if people can afford them (which they can't), they don't have time to play them, because you have to get your two hours a day on GTA 6.
An accident in the video game industry seems to be on the horizon for years, but here, it is finally in sight. And it will not only be limited to the United States.
When I say destroy the game, I don't think so literally. There will still be Gatcha garbage on mobile, there will always be independent games (at least on a lower budget) and Call of Duty, EA Sports FC, Fortnite, GTA and Minecraft will continue to be 90% of everything. But the real games you – as a person who was sufficiently interested in visiting this site and reading so far in my feature – do you care about? They finished.
No one can compete with GTA 6 – it is to the point where it is too big and too expensive for anyone to try – and no one wants anything else anyway. Well, I do it. But I fear that we all have to admit that we are in a minority and when the game industry implodes, we will be upset, but most people will even notice anything changed – because they only played one game anyway.
By the Gaston reader
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