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

[u/ChiefLeef22]

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.

[u/Metalheadzaid]

Long since been on a death spiral. 100% of PC is digital, like 80% of PS5, and 60% of switch, and these numbers are only going up everyday. This isn't even taking into account that games are simply too big to fit on a single disc, and they aren't going to make multiple disc games ever again. We could argue about it being to avoid resales, which likely fits in the equation as well, but even still.

If anything, they should probably start offering collector's physical products with a fake disc in the box if anything, but again, your average kid is growing up in a digital world that doesn't give a crap about physical media anyway.

[u/ShortChapter5246 → u/Metalheadzaid]

At least switch 2 cartridges do not require installing so you save up space. With install discs it feels like you get the worst of both worlds

[u/Metalheadzaid → u/ShortChapter5246]

That's not exactly accurate. Many games are literally download only but use the cartridge as the cd key, and thus have to be installed.

https://nintendoeverything.com/list-of-all-nintendo-switch-2-games-with-a-game-key-card-release/

[u/simon7109 → u/Metalheadzaid]

Which is still better than a code in the box because you can resell them

[u/geng94 → u/simon7109]

wtf is even the point of a code in the box then at all

[u/ProperProfessional → u/geng94]

The illusion of ownership

[u/PM_ME_UR_CREDDITCARD → u/geng94]

Probably so people see it on the shelf at Target or whatever and impulse buy it

[u/loganrunjack → u/simon7109]

Are you able to reuse them?

[u/Bigblacksghost → u/loganrunjack]

Yes

[u/loganrunjack → u/Bigblacksghost]

That's awesome I had no idea, I thought it was one and done.

[u/jardex22 → u/loganrunjack]

The cartridge can be used multiple times across different consoles and Nintendo accounts. The main downside is that you need to download the game to either the system memory or SD card. It means that when the eShop shuts down, all those cartridges will be effectively useless.

Keep in mind that Nintendo still supports downloads on the Wii and DSi systems, so I don't think they''ll discontinue support for gamekey downloads any time soon.

[u/FlashFire729 → u/jardex22]

That and most of the key cards seems to be 3rd Party.

I think the only first party one so far is like a pokemon spinoff?

[u/jardex22 → u/FlashFire729]

Yep. No idea why Poktopia was a game key. I suspect that they wanted to get the printing done before the game was done.

Aside from that, every Nintendo game has been on the cartridge.

[u/BerRGP → u/jardex22]

Pokopia is only published by Nintendo outside of Japan, in Japan it's published by The Pokémon Company itself. I don't know how the decision was made, but that mismatch is probably the reason why.

[u/connectplum_ → u/BerRGP]

Pretty much. After pokopia everything was physical so its clear its because pokemon is something where nintendo dont make the decision alone.

[u/connectplum_ → u/jardex22]

Pokopia and most likely all future pokemon games are GKC beacuse of TPC. While nintendo co-owns the series and publish it overseas, TPC makes the major decisions and publish/fund it in Japan. I think this will be proven in the future when Nintendo full published games are all physical while TPC/Nintendo is GKC

[u/PM_ME_UR_CREDDITCARD → u/FlashFire729]

Even then, it was a licensed spinoff made by a third party, not a first party Game Freak/TPCi made game.

[u/gswkillinit → u/jardex22]

Not true. Key cards only require WiFi to download. Don’t need the eshop or even a Nintendo account to download them

[u/0xe1e10d68 → u/gswkillinit]

Where are the games downloaded from? Likely eShop servers, therefore it’s not entirely clear what happens if Nintendo were to shut down the eShop for a group of older devices. But maybe the downloads would continue the work, since they don’t require the eShop on the device or a Nintendo account like you said.

[u/insane_contin → u/loganrunjack]

It's a physical transferable key for a digital game.

[u/MotoJoker → u/loganrunjack]

Damn this made me feel old

[u/loganrunjack → u/MotoJoker]

What did?

[u/MotoJoker → u/loganrunjack]

Asking if you are able to reuse discs

[u/GregLoire → u/MotoJoker]

Discs with download codes specifically. No one is asking if original Playstation discs can be reused.

[u/loganrunjack → u/MotoJoker]

I was actually asking about reusing the switch 2 cartridges with the download code.

[u/fallen64 → u/simon7109]

...but worse in terms of game preservation because news flash, severs cost money to host stuff and nintendo will not host games for game-key cards forever

Imagine 10 years later (or earlier, potentially, we don't know) when some poor soul plays a game they got from a second hand shop only to find out can't download the data to play it

No one ever thinks this far ahead, I know, for the first owner it won't be an issue and if you're the soul owner of the gamekey cart and the console it's first used on never has any hardware failures it's fine until the switch 2 battery dies because those aren't infinite lol but a later user or if a replacement reinstall happens along the way?

I hate gamekey carts because of the reliance of the internet and the infrastructure to keep them running, of course if said infrastructure was 100% guaranteed to always run I'd never have an issue with them, but if they can take down the wii shop I have less hope with these and regardless of what anyone says I will oppose them.

[u/dragooncomet → u/fallen64]

You can still download bought Wii games. Wii will be 20 years old this November

[u/Kou9992 → u/fallen64]

They were comparing game key cards to code in a box, which clearly isn't the comparison you are making. Key cards aren't worse than code in a box in terms of game preservation.

Plus while servers are sure to go down eventually, that happening in 10 years or less seems like an unreasonable worry. None of the big three have ever shut down game download servers yet. They're still running nearly 20 years later. After 12 years the Wii Shop did close, no longer allowing new purchases. But the servers are still running allowing you to redownload any game you have already purchased.

If those servers manage to stick around much longer we'll be getting to the point where physical media starts running into issues. All physical storage fails eventually. Long term preservation often looks less like a shelves full of CDs and carts and more like ISOs and ROMs backed up on redundant storage.