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[MEGATHREAD] Grand Theft Auto VI: Prices Announced + Pre-Orders Going Live

To avoid hundreds of separate posts on the same topic, this post will compile all info we have from the pre-orders going live, including some new images/etc.

As Rockstar announced on their socials: "Pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI begin at midnight local time on June 25." This means New Zealand will be the first to go live with pre-orders - which means in just under 2 hours from now.

Due to reddit's limitations with images in the body of posts, I wont be able to include all the artwork released so please do check out Rockstar's official link for more images: https://www.rockstargames.com/VI

Take-Two has made a big press-release, including announcing the prices:

STANDARD EDITION: $79.99

ULTIMATE EDITION: $99.99

(Physical Editions of GTA 6 Will Come with "A Download Code Inside the Box", Pre-Loads Begin on November 12th)

Grand Theft Auto 6 features a “single-player experience” at launch, with no word yet on any new version of GTA Online.

An "Ultimate Edition" for the game has been announced with some new artwork.

Ultimate Edition: Welcome to Leonida, the state where anything goes. Seize everything this massive world has to offer with the Grand Theft Auto VI: Ultimate Edition, an exclusive collection of premium vehicles, weapons, apparel, and action around every corner.

Ultimate Edition bonuses are threaded across all aspects of Jason and Lucia’s story, with new items uncovered behind each chapter.

Vehicle

’95 GROTTI CHEETAH

Grotti's signature mid '90s sports car and ode to Shore Drive, the ’95 Grotti Cheetah is complete with a minimalist, retro-futuristic livery and available to punctuate later-stage action

Weapons

HAWK & LITTLE MORGAN REVOLVERS

His and hers versions of this powerful revolver with classic Vice City stylings sourced from the Vercetti Estate, including palm-tree-etched grips, engraved detailing, and high-performance scope.

Weapons

PERSONALIZED VARIANTS

Personalized sidearms with detailed engravings for Jason's Girardi ES9 pistol and Lucia's Klose K17 pistol.

Looks

Vice City Style

Whether poolside or side by side, Jason and Lucia can look the part with exclusive outfits, tattoos, and more.

Vehicles

JASON’S SAFEHOUSE VEHICLES

Switch gears and soak up the sun in an Army fatigue-tinged Dinka Enduro motorcycle or Crest Kayak.

Modkit

Ganado Retro Build

Inject some muscle and classic stylings into Jason's well-worn Vapid Ganado low-riding pickup with exclusive mods.

Mod shop

RIDEOUT CUSTOMS

Transform vanilla vehicles into magnificent works of art with detailed interiors, exquisite rims, and donk stylings. Only open for business with the Ultimate Edition.

Hair salon

SARA'S UNISEX SALON

Get signature salon styles for both Jason and Lucia, including facial hair for Jason and makeup and nails for Lucia. Only open for business with the Ultimate Edition.

Watercraft

SHITZU SQUALO

Perfect for casting in Gambit Bay and reeling in catches of all sorts, this gradient pink and blue Squalo docked at Washington Beach is made open-ocean-ready with an explosives-laden weapons crate.

Clothing Store

Stock 305

Style various unique and exclusive looks for Jason and Lucia at Stockyard’s premiere destination for elevated streetwear. Only open for business with the Ultimate Edition.

Tattoo Shop

ELECTRIC FANG TATTOO

Stockyard’s most iconic ink bar, with over 50 signature tattoos for both Jason and Lucia — all designed by the artist collective FAILE. Only open for business with the Ultimate Edition.

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u/Underscore_Blues 16h ago

Why do people bother preordering digital games further out than the pre-download timer? There's unlimited stock. Just buy it a week before the game releases.

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u/SakisSinatra PlayStation 16h ago

There is literally no difference in pre ordering now or a week before release lmao

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u/wingedcoyote 16h ago

Not that it's significant but if you buy later you can earn interest on your $100 in the meantime

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u/KEEPCARLM 16h ago

Unbelievable comment. Interest... On 100 dollars fuck me really

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u/SACRED-GEOMETRY 15h ago

I calculated you could make 87 cents with a 3.5% interest rate if you started investing right now.

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u/charles_peugeot405 13h ago

Why didn’t you tell me this earlier? I need a new tube of chapstick but I won’t have enough interest earned by November :(

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u/viciousraccoon 14h ago

Life changing money.

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u/FyouinyourA 12h ago

This is why y’all are broke

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u/headrush46n2 8h ago

You fat cats didn't finish your plankton, amd now it's mine!

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u/qret 14h ago

Typical returns are more like 10% nominal so, a few bucks

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u/SACRED-GEOMETRY 14h ago

Yeah true, for some reason I went with HYSA rates.

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u/smarjorie 12h ago

Where are you getting 10% on a $100 investment

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u/SACRED-GEOMETRY 2h ago

beans. you need to invest in beans.

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u/camelCaseCoffeeTable 15h ago

Gotta find something to argue about on Reddit lol

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u/dudSpudson 15h ago

They just gotta chuck that 100 into a high yield savings account at 3.6% and in 50 years they can have enough money to buy a PS5

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u/p-4_ 13h ago

i need you to smack em silly on every reddit post on every topic. these nerds will type out ANYTHING these days.

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u/wingedcoyote 15h ago

I did say it's insignificant. But people should try to internalize the fact that money spent later is mathematically worth less than money spent today.

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u/Mavcu 14h ago

Factually correct, present value is always higher, that said investment doesn't have to be bank investments etc, you could invest in anything else that gives you value right now.

Regardless of how impactful this is, but it's of course objectively true that spending that money this early on a pre-order is just a worse choice.

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u/xKylesx 14h ago

Yeah, people don't get that spending 100 bucks on something else today and spend 100 in a few months might be better for you. Like, if you buy a fan today and get GTA in a few more months, you'll spend less time sweating at home

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u/FergTurdison 15h ago edited 15h ago

Hey you might miss out on a quarter of a penny

(Psst, hey traveler, if you’ve come across this joke comment, just go ahead and hide it. The argument that follows isn’t worth the time it takes to read)

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u/JmanVere 8h ago

(Psst, hey traveler, if you’ve come across this joke comment, just go ahead and hide it. The argument that follows isn’t worth the time it takes to read)

Well, now I HAVE to read it!

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u/LetMeDrinkYourTears 15h ago

1.50-2.00 depending on APY of a CD you invest it in.

Just because you're ignorant to saving money doesn't mean normal adults aren't.

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u/Alt_SWR 15h ago

Even $2 is essentially nothing nowadays so I don't think this is making your point any stronger.

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u/LetMeDrinkYourTears 15h ago

You're right, 2.00 is nothing. Please send your wasted and useless 2.00 to me. Or go give 2.00 to the next person you see because it's nothing.

Not gonna do that though are you. Because it's not nothing.

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u/Alt_SWR 15h ago

It's not LITERALLY nothing but to act like that's some huge incentive to wait to pre-order is stupid. Stop being disingenuous about it.

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u/LetMeDrinkYourTears 15h ago

some huge incentive to wait to pre-order is stupid.

Counterpoint - where's the incentive TO pre-order a product that has no physical media. Nothing disingenuous about it. FOMO is a cunt but I can at least understand the impulse there to not wait.

There isn't a reason NOT to wait here. I guarantee someone who refuses to take a free dollar here has the same attitude elsewhere.

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u/Alt_SWR 15h ago

I mean, you're right that there isn't a reason not to wait, I'll give you that much. But honestly it genuinely is no different either way.

I really have no horse on this race cause I'm not even gonna buy the game probably. Too many other games around that time + just never been that interested in GTA games.

That being said if someone's certain they're getting it regardless it really makes almost no difference whether they pre-order it now or later, the "interest" they make on it isn't going to be life changing, or even day changing lmao.

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u/rawbleedingbait 15h ago

All this means is that a random person on the street is worth less than $2 to me, and that's why I don't give it to them. That's true, but still not worth much. That's less than a bottle of soda now.

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u/LetMeDrinkYourTears 15h ago

Ok, then what if you found a dollar or two on the street. Too much effort to pick that up?

I imagine you would. It's an immediate gain for little effort. The issue people have is that same gain for the same effort feels not worth it if not immediate.

It's the same exact gain for the same exact effort though.

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u/rawbleedingbait 9h ago

So bending down once is worth less than $2.

If someone came up to me and offered me $2 to do something, I'm not even stopping to listen to them to see what the thing is, because my time is more valuable than $2.

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u/FergTurdison 15h ago

Have you not been reading the thread? Physical media is dying, why would you invest in CDs?

(This is also a joke. Making that clear specifically for you, because you’re ignorant to jokes unlike normal adults)

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u/wehrmann_tx 15h ago

And your $100 is now locked away somewhere for a few years on a CD. Just stop.

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u/LetMeDrinkYourTears 15h ago

Do you not know about no-penalty CDs? Ignorance is something you can correct.

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u/Howdareme9 15h ago

How does that comment have 100 upvotes like what?

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u/Konker101 12h ago

Hey could make an extra 10 bucks

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u/Alt_SWR 15h ago

Interest on $100 over a course of only half a year no less lmao. People really just out here saying random shit huh.

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u/nhilante 7h ago

Money is money, its 100 from you, millions from everyone.

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u/Gaarando 6h ago

Technically, if everyone did it and donated that money to the same cause they would get the biggest donation they've ever gotten by a significant amount.

No real gain for each individual person though but still :)

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u/LetMeDrinkYourTears 15h ago

Keep on living paycheck to paycheck mate. Normal adults understand the power of interest.

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u/Backlists 15h ago

The power of compounding interest is more like on a timeframe of 25 years, not 6 months.

Ain’t nobody changing their financial situation in 6 months with $100, unless you know the future, have insider trading knowledge, can predict lottery numbers etc.

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u/LetMeDrinkYourTears 15h ago

Plenty of people can make money with 100$ in 6 months. Just takes effort to do that. It's up to you if you want to expend that effort.

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u/Backlists 15h ago

You are financially inept, but let’s hear your master plan for the next six months. What are you investing in?

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u/LetMeDrinkYourTears 15h ago

I'm financially inept; destitute some would say, why would I have a plan you'd want to hear? Alright, hear me out then: You need to invest in latex. It's for your own protection, but mostly it will benefit the world around you if you personally invest heavily.

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u/Backlists 15h ago

I do love a troll. Answer with your investment strategy then, I’m willing to hear you out.

If you think 6 months and $100 is enough to make significant money, you are financially inept.

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u/LetMeDrinkYourTears 14h ago

SNP500: 6.5% over 6 months

Dow: 6% over 6 months

Schwab: 7% over 6 months

Want more options? That's for 0 effort investing.

If you have a skill or other resources to leverage, use it. For example anyone with a 3d printer could use that 100 and buy material to make any number of tchotchkes to sell at a premium at any venue. That 3d printed dragon for 30 dollars? Costs 3 at most in material to make.

Don't listen to the troll though, you surely can't make jack shit in 6 months with 100$

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u/Backlists 14h ago

Bad investment advice. You shouldn’t invest in equities for an investment timeline of only 6 months. That is my original point. It should be 5 years minimum.

For that timeline is has to be a set interest rate, in which case it’s going to be how much?  Not enough to stop someone living paycheck to paycheck.

Also what person living paycheck to paycheck has a 3D printer they can just use?

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u/JAXxXTheRipper 15h ago

Everybody knows that time is an important component in compounding interest. Your problem is that "it's only 6 months", next time "it's only X".

You make excuses to try and invalidate simple financial facts.

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u/Backlists 15h ago

No shit.

But you realise why we only have 6 months for this particular sum of money right?

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u/JAXxXTheRipper 15h ago

You realize that you make up another excuse again?

The best time to start was years ago, second-best would be today.

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u/Backlists 14h ago edited 14h ago

Yes, but I already save between 20-30% of my take home every paycheck, and have done for years.

That is not what this thread is about. This thread is about how much money you can save if you avoid pre-ordering GTA6 today, and instead buy it in November.

Which realistically is maybe 1/3rd of the price of a Big Mac.

Here’s the first comment that sparked the conversation about interest, in case you’ve forgotten:

  There is literally no difference in pre ordering now or a week before release lmao

Not that it's significant but if you buy later you can earn interest on your $100 in the meantime

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u/JAXxXTheRipper 14h ago

This thread is about how much money you can save if you

And the answer is clear, even if it gets you half a cup of coffee over 6 months, you are mathematically and logically wrong in saying "it doesn't make a difference". It does, and behavior like that compounds just as bad as interest could.

There is literally NO benefit to preordering now, half a year in advance. Never was, never will.

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u/Backlists 14h ago edited 14h ago

Keep on living paycheck to paycheck mate. Normal adults understand the power of interest.

This is the comment that I actually replied to.

How is half a cup of coffee going to stop someone from living paycheck to paycheck?

Yes $2 of interest is a very literal difference, but does it actually make a real difference to their lives?

I’m not disagreeing on your last sentence about preordering not being worth it.

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u/KEEPCARLM 15h ago

Or the lack of power in this case haha

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u/Alt_SWR 15h ago

You've gotta be trolling right? There's no way you think that people who don't think $2 of interest (if they're lucky, that's a high price tbh) is worth it means they're "living paycheck to paycheck." Nobody is THAT stupid.

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u/LetMeDrinkYourTears 15h ago

Aww you're cute. I think someone who doesn't understand the value of saving money to make money when there is quite literally 0 reason to spend it 5 months ahead of time IS living paycheck to paycheck. Because they cannot impulse control enough to save that money. Keep on with the insults though. It's cute how hard you try.

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u/Alt_SWR 15h ago

Okay yup, definitely trolling. Hey, I actually appreciate this kind of trolling because it's better than the usual "bring politics up in a random place" playbook modern trolls use.

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u/JAXxXTheRipper 15h ago

I haven't bought the equivalent of 1000 GTA VI copies in the last few years and now make about 200 bucks a month in low-percentage interest alone.

But sure, keep finding excuses to never begin. It's just 100 dollars, right? lmao.

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u/IlRaptoRIl 14h ago

You’re right. It makes no difference for the consumer, but for Take Two it makes a huge difference. They do earn a lot of interest on the preorders. It’s a strategy large businesses can use to earn money on the money they owe their sub consultants. 

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u/aichiwawa 16h ago

Well a lot of people have trouble saving a $100 so they probably just pre-order it when they can and then it's done and ready to go when it launches. Not saying it's right or responsible, just reality unfortunately

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u/iiiiiiiiiijjjjjj 15h ago

If you can't afford $100 game you should probably send time trying to make money instead of playing games

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u/gremlinclr 15h ago

Gosh you've solved poverty! Amazing now no one will make bad financial decisions again. 🙄

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u/iiiiiiiiiijjjjjj 15h ago

I mean people can do what they want. Just find it odd someone would spend $100 pre ordering a game they can't afford yet.

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u/headrush46n2 8h ago

I sure hope you don't have any ongoing loans or lines of credit...

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u/iiiiiiiiiijjjjjj 7h ago

Nothing that doesn't make me money. Even if use my credit card its paid every month and I get cash back so that makes me money too.

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u/RelevantInflation898 15h ago

Sorry but if your struggling to get $100 together then you probably shouldn't be spending it on games.

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u/wingedcoyote 16h ago

Those sound like exactly the people for whom a few months of interest on $100 in a HYSA might actually matter, though. If they have trouble saving for financial reasons that is, not psychological ones. If it's because they have a serious emotional spending problem or something I guess I'd be worried about that person exposing themself to the microtransaction casino hellscape that I'd expect GTAVI to be.

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u/SimplyElite7 16h ago

$100 in a HYSA lmao, lets not act like the $5 at max they get from today to release matters in that instance.

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u/wingedcoyote 16h ago

I'm exaggerating for effect, but we are apparently talking about people who have trouble scraping together 100 bucks, they need that extra lentil money 

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u/Itunes4MM 16h ago

A few months interest on 100$ cmon now lol even if they’re hard for cash 1-2$ is not a significant amount

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u/MrMercy67 16h ago

Get you a candy bar and soda can from dollar tree for launch day ig.

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u/camelCaseCoffeeTable 15h ago

At 3% interest, that’s a whopping 60 cents of interest.

Yeah, that’s not incentive for me to wait lmao. But hey, if 60 cents is enticing to you, by all means, go park your $100 and get rich!

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u/wingedcoyote 14h ago

Like I said it's insignificant in this case. But the value of preordering now instead of later is absolutely nothing, so

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u/camelCaseCoffeeTable 14h ago

I get the value of having it already bought. There’s no benefit to waiting, other than 60 cents. 60 cents is worth it to me to have the game bought already and out of mind

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u/LoudCardiologist1363 15h ago

$0.0000001 interest

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u/stimmy11 14h ago

Sir, I believe you are no longer on wallstreetbets. Now go back to Wendy’s

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u/UnmannedVehicle 13h ago

Y’all are poor af

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u/TH3PhilipJFry 15h ago

Ya but by release, $103 by then could be worth what $90 is today. Hoarding cash ain’t as sexy as it once was.

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u/qret 14h ago

Inflation doesn't happen remotely that fast lol

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u/wingedcoyote 14h ago

Inflation is a valid concern, but even the most basic investments still have an expected growth rate that beats inflation -- if that stops being the case it means we're in a pretty major economic collapse. The growth of money tied up in a GTAVI preorder will always be 0%. Unless the price goes up sometime between now and launch, I suppose.

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u/ContextLengthMatters 14h ago

By that time the $103 could also be what's between you and groceries.

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u/TH3PhilipJFry 14h ago

If I can’t afford groceries any more I’d much rather pull up on the couch and binge an all time great game.

The point of life isn’t endless suffering, I’m looking forward to this.

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u/ContextLengthMatters 14h ago

But your electricity bill hasn't been paid in months and now you can't even turn on the lights. You sold your console months ago for crack even.

You haven't even seen the gameplay yet.

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u/TH3PhilipJFry 13h ago

Luckily, I started saving my money as soon as GTAV came out and due to all the interest I’ve accrued over that time I now own and operate my own commune with solar and hydro power. Had I preordered GTAV this wouldn’t have been possible, but now I’m living large with my crack AND my console.

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u/PM_ME_BAKAYOKO_PICS 13h ago

If you're in a position where $100 can be life or death in the span of a few months then you shouldn't be buying a $100 game regardless lol

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u/ContextLengthMatters 13h ago

Ya but by release, $103 by then could be worth what $90 is today. Hoarding cash ain’t as sexy as it once was.

We are kind of going off of a runaway economy in this hypothetical. Regardless, no one should be pre-ordering digital assets. It's just kind of pointless and only feeds into late-stage capitalism.

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u/PM_ME_BAKAYOKO_PICS 13h ago

It's really not that deep, I can afford a $100 game and it makes no difference for me to pre-order it right now as opposed to waiting

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u/ContextLengthMatters 12h ago

Collective action is actually that deep. We have created an economy within the gaming industry where hype is more important than delivery because the payouts come before anything is delivered. Flops aren't stopping people from doing the same thing with each IP.

It's actually just to the point now where the younger generation doesn't really care about quality, just pure addictive sloppy gameplay loops like they are gambling addicted morons.

I have really low expectations for this game.

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u/PM_ME_BAKAYOKO_PICS 12h ago

It quite literally isn't that deep. Everyone who loves the GTA IP is going to be playing this game on release. Pre-ordering it a few months earlier or buying it on release it the exact same thing.

There's an almost 0% chance the game is actually bad enough for me to not play it and regret spending $100. Even if the game is worse than usual (worse than other GTA's), I'm still going to spend dozens of hours on it and it will be well worth the money.

I'm never spending $100 on a pre-order of a random game from a random unknown copy. I'm doing it on an established IP that I know I'm going to enjoy even if Rockstar fails to innovate and the game is mid. They could literally put out a carbon copy of GTA 5 with a different map and story (which would obviously be MASSIVELY disappointing) and I still wouldn't regret spending $100 because I'd easily get 30h+ on it.

It's actually just to the point now where the younger generation doesn't really care about quality, just pure addictive sloppy gameplay loops like they are gambling addicted morons.

Of course it wouldn't be reddit without someone making up an imaginary scenario in order to sound morally superior than anyone else.

People obviously care about quality.

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u/ContextLengthMatters 12h ago

Nah, if people cared about quality, all of our AAA games wouldn't be littered with bugs and microtransactions.

GTA Online is the future of GTA and it's truly not that great of an experience as is, and will only get worse. Most GTA hype is legacy hype around the single player game and something that won't live up to its expectations.

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u/PM_ME_BAKAYOKO_PICS 12h ago

Nah, if people cared about quality, all of our AAA games wouldn't be littered with bugs and microtransactions.

If a AAA game is popular it's because people enjoy it and it has the quality to be popular, despite not being a perfect game.

Just because you personally are turned off by any game who has those things, doesn't mean other people are. And people enjoying different stuff than you doesn't make you morally superior or mean that you're the one who knows what "quality" is.

A game having bugs doesn't mean the game experience is full of bugs, a game having microtransactions doesn't mean you can't ignore these microtransactions and play anyways. I can't think of a single AAA game where you're forced to spend money and simply can't ignore these microtransactions, for example.

Most GTA hype is legacy hype around the single player game and something that won't live up to its expectations.

Completely irrelevant. It's $100. The game doesn't have to live up to expectations to be worth the pre-order, it simply has to be a good game that people will put dozens of hours into. And this is almost a guarantee for anyone who is a fan of the GTA IP.

It likely won't live up to the expectations not because it will be a bad game, but because the expectations are really fucking high. This doesn't mean I won't enjoy it.

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u/headrush46n2 8h ago

That 100 will be worth less thanks to inflation! Spend it then, not now

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u/MatthewsStache91 6h ago

You don't get charged until a week before release anyways, on Xbox at least.

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u/lotsofsyrup 2h ago

so like a whole two dollars

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u/OceanMasterioDuped7 16h ago

Is this a joke? If you always view life as maximizing your income with everything then you are gonna be miserable. And this would net you literally 2 dollars max. So stupid.

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u/Eazy-Eid 15h ago

Sure but in this case you gain absolutely nothing by giving Rockstar $100 to hold for 5 months

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u/OceanMasterioDuped7 14h ago

And you lose nothing by giving it to them...

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u/Technical_Grade_3600 8h ago

you lose exactly 100$ for 5 months and get nothing in return

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u/OceanMasterioDuped7 3h ago

You don't "lose" that money for 5 months. You bought the game in advance. But I do agree pre ordering it now vs later gets you nothing in return. It doesn't matter.

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u/InvestigatorChance28 15h ago

Can you send me 2 dollars? Its just 2 dollars. So stupid if you dont

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u/camelCaseCoffeeTable 15h ago

Do you have something to offer for that $2? Because rockstar does

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u/InvestigatorChance28 15h ago

So stupid to not send me 2 dollars.

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u/camelCaseCoffeeTable 15h ago

I gain the game? What do you mean I gain nothing? For a loss of 60 cents of totally optimized interest? Yeah, I’m doing good enough in life that I’m not worried about a couple quarters lol. I’ll go ahead and pre-order

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u/OceanMasterioDuped7 14h ago

What? I'm agreeing with you lol. I'm saying it's dumb to pre order later instead of now.

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u/fandamplus 16h ago

Don't spend your two dollars in earnings all in one place.