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GTA 6 Price Is $99.99, But It Can Save You $5,000, Here Is How To Pitch It To Your Wife

GTA 6 can save you $5,000, according to a post on X that gives gamers a ready-made pitch for their partners. The argument starts with the $99.99 GTA 6 price tag and an 80-hour main story, which works out to $1.25 per hour.
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GTA 6 can save you $5,000, according to the math done by an expert - 4 hours of play every evening with a $100 cost of a night out. GTA 6 price is $99.99 for Ultimate Edition, which is taken to do the 'girl math'.X Vicecity_wire, Rockstar Games
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GTA 6 is almost here, and after over a dozen years of waiting, the real challenge for a lot of gamers is not the release date, but convincing a partner that the purchase is worth it and will actually save a lot of money and that GTA 6 price of $99.99 for the Ultimate Edition is chickenfeed in comparison ($79.99 for the Standard Edition). Mark Tilbury on X just made that argument a whole lot easier, running the numbers to show GTA 6 could actually save you $5,000.

Call it the male version of 'girl math', dividing cost by usage until the price tag disappears. Well, the logic is oddly convincing.

The Math That Makes GTA 6 Sound Like A Bargain

The post, shared by X user Vicecity_wire, broke it down step by step. GTA 6 costs $99.99, and if the main story alone takes 80 hours, that works out to $1.25 per hour of entertainment. 

Factor in side missions and exploring the map, and that drops to roughly 50 cents an hour. Play four hours every evening, and you’ve got fifty nights covered. 

Compare that to spending a single night out in the town, which could easily cost $100, and suddenly the math checks out: buying the game saves you about $5,000 compared to going out.

The Internet’s Verdict On This Logic

Naturally, the replies had their own take. One user, Taltigolt, backed the theory, pointing out that gaming has long been the cheapest form of entertainment, as long as you ignore the cost of the machine required to run it. 

NatsuWolfox was quick to add the catch everyone else missed, the math conveniently skips the $1,000 console needed to actually play the game. 

Don_TEE joked that this one post did more convincing than Rockstar’s own marketing team, questioning whether it was even an organic post to begin with. 

And then ZGustaff poked the biggest hole in the logic, pointing out that by this same reasoning, a $5 game like Sid Meier’s Civilization 3, often available for even less during sales, offers hundreds or even thousands of hours of playtime, technically making it the far more cost-effective pick than the pricier GTA 6.

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