GTA 4 (2008) had a development budget of 100 million in (146.5 million today) it made $500 million (730 million today) in the first week and sold 25 million copies by 2013. GTA 5 (2013) had a development cost of 265 million (354 million today) it made 1.15 billion (1.56 billion today) in the first week and had sold 205 million copies as of 2025 and a total gross of 8.5 billion as of today (including GTA online sales). RDR 2 (2018) had a development cost of 540 million ( 678 million today) and made 725 million in the first 3 days (909 million today) and sold 57 million copies as of 2023. GTA 6 is rumored to have a development cost of 2 billion and it is the first game to have a female main character in story mode. To achieve the success level of GTA 5 it would need to make more than GTA 5 has made in total in the first week. That’s 124 million copies of $70 in the first week.
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You'd think but I have a feeling we'll get a gay character in it and some of that True Romance racism just for comparison's sake of how things are different.
Probably a touch of feminism too.
All understandable enough if relevant to the story, it's the storytelling which might be the issue.
I'm hoping that the biggest concern will be if we get to 1925 to see Vito Scaletta being born. A means to tie him into every story or to keep the original trilogy as its own standing.
Which sucks, it impacts sales because people will wait to buy or just pass altogether because they want to wait for the gameplay to show if it’s woke or not. Either way it’s a lose lose because it impacts first week sales which is what the media pushes as make or break for most games.