With the advent of the ninth console generation (which we are now five years into – take a second to sit down), the standard price of big-budget games has gone up from $60 to $70 – but with the biggest-budget game in recent memory now looming on the horizon,

Publishers will use any excuse to raise game prices again, won't they? And they're banking on GTA 6 being the catalyst.

RUMOURS are swirling that Grand Theft Auto 6 will be the first $100 / £100 game when it launches later this year. Gamers are worried that GTA 6 will set a precedent for triple-A games and all

Now they're $70, and analysts are discussing a potential $100 price tag for Grand Theft Auto 6. One Baldur's Gate 3 dev says companies hoping for this are "saying the quiet part out loud." GTA 6 is one of the most-anticipated games in history.

An annual report into the state of video games has raised eyebrows for suggesting Rockstar will sell the long-awaited behemoth that is GTA 6 for $100 - around £80. The amount could be justified by the game's enormous budget and would fit with a similar move by GTA publisher Take-Two back at the start of the current console generation,