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  • This game failing would be the funniest thing this year.
    by OroPla
  • The article did a great job of scooping sand over the huge turd this actually is.

    Microsoft is going to be charging you per hour to play GTA 6.

    by mike_d
  • It is possible that before GTA6 we will have GTA6 on a PC, thanks to the latest jailbreak for PS5 and AnyPS5 project ;)
    by gitowiec
  • They started limiting the hours of Xbox game streaming from 5-15 per month depending on tier. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate costs $22.99 per month and the limit is 15 hours. That will not work for GTA6 which has an estimated 80-300 hours of gameplay.
    by xvxvx
  • Maybe I'll take a look at GTA 6 once it's on sale at 50% off. It may take years, but I have a huge library of unplayed games already, and hundreds more go on sale every month. I played GTA 5 for the first time a couple of years ago, and bought it at a massive discount.

    It's possible I'll never get to play GTA 6. That's okay too.

    by glimshe
  • What exactly is streaming rights for Xbox?

    - I don't buy the game, I pay a cloud rental fee and can play so long as my membership is active? Unlimited hours?

    - I buy the game, but don't have to use up hard drive space?

    - So long as I have an Xbox streaming account, I could stream on my PC? A tablet?

    by 3eb7988a1663
  • From a Kotaku article on the same subject:

    Update 10/6/2026 11:42 p.m.: Xbox chief strategy officer Matthew Ball has said that The Verge‘s report from earlier today claiming Xbox had exclusive streaming rights to GTA 6 was “misreporting.”

    “We are looking forward to launching GTAVI on XBOX November 19, though the game will not be streaming exclusively or to PC.”

    by Foxhuls
  • I bet this is insanely expensive. Their page announcing pricing changes shows what looks like a 5 hour block of non-expiring playtime [1]. They aren't doing $1 or $2 transactions, so my guess is somewhere in the $1 per hour range.

    People were worried about GTA6 costing $100 on launch. How about $100 per month if you want to play a couple hours a night and half a day on weekends? That's a lot, but I bet it's not uncommon.

    It's the perfect testing scenario for those who want to take away ownership and replace it with forever rentals. They have a super popular game that people are desperate to play, the studio isn't launching it on PC for day 1, and the AI industry has given them an excuse to push console pricing over the moon.

    Cynical people would see it as being very, very convenient.

    The big tech companies are loving their invented supply crisis because it's price anchoring everyone into thinking that owning a PC or console or doing any type of gaming should cost half your paycheck.

    Good for Microsoft though. A lot of people were probably considering a console purchase just for GTA6 and spending a few hundred dollars for a streaming service while waiting for the PC port is going to seem like a "good deal".

    1. https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/09/03/xbox-cloud-gaming-cha...

    by donmcronald

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