Grand Theft Auto VI won’t be cheap, but it’s not going to be nearly as expensive as some pundits predicted. The bad news for people hoping they could play the game on their Nintendo Switch 2 is that they’ll be forced to pick up an ever-more-expensive PlayStation 5 or Xbox to play it day one.
Take-Two Interactive, the game’s publisher, has set the base price of GTA VI at $80 when it launches on November 19. There is a $100 “Ultimate Edition” that comes with extra in-game items and “action threaded across all aspects of Jason and Lucia’s story.” We don’t know what the hell that means, but at least Take-Two confirmed the game goes up for preorder at midnight local time on June 25. Developer Rockstar Games has determined the game will remain exclusive to the PlayStation 5, PS5 Pro, and the Xbox Series X and Series S consoles. What’s more, all copies of GTA VI will be a digital edition. Anybody who buys the physical version will simply receive a slip of cardboard with a download code. Rockstar has not yet confirmed the game’s file size, but we don’t expect it to be small by any margin. For reference, GTA V can take up anywhere between 105GB and 125GB, depending on platform, according to Rockstar Games. At least, you won’t have to pay $100 for Grand Theft Auto VI, despite some analysts extolling the price point in the lead-up to the game’s fall launch. You just won’t get a PC or Switch 2 version, but we can hope those will come in the future.
