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GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour (www.forbes.com)

submitted 11 months ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/games@lemmy.world

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While Take-Two is riding high on their announcement that a GTA 6 trailer is coming, its CEO has some…interesting ideas on how much video games could cost, part of a contingent of executives that believe games are underpriced, given their cost, length or some combination of the two.

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[-] sirdorius@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

And shorter games should naturally command a lower price

This is exactly the thing that doesn't make any sense. Should The Last of Us be priced at a fraction of The Witcher 3 because it is shorter? What about Bioshock? It's half the length of The Last of Us 2