Phucapod — Gaming Industry & Culture Podcast
May 16, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min · 11 segments
In this episode, Frosty and Wav3y talk about the latest in nerd news, from possible $80 price tag on GTA VI, GameStop's ludicrous offer to purchase EBay, Nintendo's price increase on the Switch 2 and…
As most of you guys, as fellow gamers, most of you, not everybody, care a lot about.
But GTA 6 could be priced at $80, even though we're looking at a lot of the gaming standards, gaming prices going up.
This current gaming cycle, looking at standards of like 60 to 70 to 80, with some great games landing in 30 or 40, and people are loving that.
but the triple-a titles 30 was it uh games like uh hell divers came out a couple years ago forty dollars um expedition 33 i know we're gonna keep talking about it but in general that game was i think
dollars so when we're talking about prices hiking for these highly expected games like gta 6 looking at 80 dollars thinking about the bang for the buck now We have a quote here.
We think it's in Take-Two's self-interest as a publisher and partner to many developers to raise the price point for the entire industry, says Omar Disoki, a security SOC analyst at Bank of America.
He spoke at Icon Video Game Conference in Las Vegas, a new summit for C-suite executives and senior business leaders focused on the interactive entertainment industry.
As most of you guys, as fellow gamers, most of you, not everybody, care a lot about.
But GTA 6 could be priced at $80, even though we're looking at a lot of the gaming standards, gaming prices going up.
This current gaming cycle, looking at standards of like 60 to 70 to 80, with some great games landing in 30 or 40, and people are loving that.
but the triple-a titles 30 was it uh games like uh hell divers came out a couple years ago forty dollars um expedition 33 i know we're gonna keep talking about it but in general that game was i think
dollars so when we're talking about prices hiking for these highly expected games like gta 6 looking at 80 dollars thinking about the bang for the buck now We have a quote here.
We think it's in Take-Two's self-interest as a publisher and partner to many developers to raise the price point for the entire industry, says Omar Disoki, a security SOC analyst at Bank of America.
He spoke at Icon Video Game Conference in Las Vegas, a new summit for C-suite executives and senior business leaders focused on the interactive entertainment industry.
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