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9point6 lemmy.world 9point6@lemmy.world
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Can't see either of them

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CodenameDarlen lemmy.world CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-08-28
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FartMaster69 lemmy.dbzer0.com FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-12-06
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Can't see either of them

To be fair rockstar’s stealth seems more effective.

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SSTF lemmy.world setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-15
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Well, making the graphics look realistic is expensive and time consuming. Modern people have developed a really good eye for spotting imperfections so if you want them to believe what they are seeing is real, it takes years of development and high end computers.

As for GTA 6, I don't know, bloat I guess.

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Casterial lemmy.world Casterial@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-02-27
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I mean GTA 5 online still makes them nearly a billion a year and they never planned for that. I think they're going to have a hard time getting people to leave FiveM servers for GTA6 and that's why PC isn't a focus

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greyscale lemmy.grey.ooo greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo
Joined: 2026-03-20
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2bn is a fuckload of gamedev salaries.

Its barely enough to wake the finance department at raytheon. They need fatter margins to embezzel with.

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AeronMelon lemmy.world aeronmelon@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-12-26
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To be fair rockstar’s stealth seems more effective.

Don’t have to hide something that never existed in the first place.

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P00ptart lemmy.world P00ptart@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-07-26
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The difference is that if you don't want GTA 6 then your money doesn't go to it. We didn't have that choice for the flying dorito.

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Smuuthbrane sh.itjust.works smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-13
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Aeron chairs aren't free, bro.

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Pman lemmy.org Pman@lemmy.org
Joined: 2026-03-08
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Well, making the graphics look realistic is expensive and time consuming. Modern people have developed a really good eye for spotting imperfections so if you want them to believe what they are seeing is real, it takes years of development and high end computers. As for GTA 6, I don't know, bloat I guess.

While sure that may be the case, nobody is asking for realistic graphics, people are happy with pixel art games and good looking games, if the story and gameplay is there the graphics are secondary.

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KurtVonnegut mander.xyz KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz
Joined: 2024-08-28
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In 2025 USD the bombers cost more than 4 billion per unit btw:

"By 1996, the program produced 21 B-2s at a total cost of $44.7 billion (equivalent to $91,820,000,000 in 2025) or average cost of $2.13 billion (equivalent to $4,370,000,000 in 2025) per aircraft, including procurement, development, testing, and production"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_B-2_Spirit

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Viking_Hippie lemmy.dbzer0.com Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-12-04
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Don’t have to hide something that never existed in the first place.

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blinfabian feddit.nl blinfabian@feddit.nl
Joined: 2025-03-03
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cant wait for gta 6 to be 1000 euros

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excral feddit.org excral@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-25
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Serious answer: it's comparing apples to oranges. For the B-2 the total cost of the program was about $45 billion and about double that in today's dollars. You get that two billion figure if you divide the total program cost by the 21 B-2s built, but you could've never developed and built a singular B-2 for just the unit price. And that's still double of GTA after adjusting for inflation

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Art3mis lemmy.world ThunderQueen@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-09-15
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In 2025 USD the bombers cost more than 4 billion per unit btw: "By 1996, the program produced 21 B-2s at a total cost of $44.7 billion (equivalent to $91,820,000,000 in 2025) or average cost of $2.13 billion (equivalent to $4,370,000,000 in 2025) per aircraft, including procurement, development, testing, and production" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_B-2_Spirit
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FlowerFan piefed.blahaj.zone FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-08-29
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The difference is that if you don't want GTA 6 then your money doesn't go to it. We didn't have that choice for the flying dorito.

That's true. I wanted my money to go to a flying
Dorito but Mom said no :(

Something aboit how i need to be 12 before I am allowed to fly weponized aircrafts :(

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dunestorm lemmy.world dunestorm@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-09
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No game is worth a $2bn development cost; most games I play nowadays are indie and AA anyways.

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Venator lemmy.nz Venator@lemmy.nz
Joined: 2023-12-28
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No game is worth a $2bn development cost; most games I play nowadays are indie and AA anyways.

yeah but imagine how many indie games could've been funded with the B-2 bomber budget(~42B)...

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otp sh.itjust.works otp@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-11-06
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I don't think so. It probably goes further back, from whenever R&D started. No idea how much earlier though

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Eddbopkins lemmy.world Eddbopkins@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-12-15
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I bet there including the development cost of the other games as well to inflate this price.

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Appoxo lemmy.dbzer0.com Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-07-01
#22 · Quote Reply

Time and wages.
Remember how long it is in development and how many work on it

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Appoxo lemmy.dbzer0.com Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-07-01
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While sure that may be the case, nobody is asking for realistic graphics, people are happy with pixel art games and good looking games, if the story and gameplay is there the graphics are secondary.

Did you know that others might enjoy different things? :)

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midi002 lemmy.world midi002@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-03-16
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Pretty much. The USD's half life is 28 years.

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P00ptart lemmy.world P00ptart@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-07-26
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That's true. I wanted my money to go to a flying Dorito but Mom said no :( Something aboit how i need to be 12 before I am allowed to fly weponized aircrafts :(

I think you could get a waiver for that these days.

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real_squids sopuli.xyz real_squids@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2025-03-08
#26 · Quote Reply

Did you know that others might enjoy different things? :)

That's why the first mods after a new gta game comes out are hyper-realistic reshade presets lol

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Allero lemmy.today Allero@lemmy.today
Joined: 2023-12-20
#27 · Quote Reply

While sure that may be the case, nobody is asking for realistic graphics, people are happy with pixel art games and good looking games, if the story and gameplay is there the graphics are secondary.

nobody

Me! And plenty others. Nothing's wrong with pixel games, but sometimes people want strong immersion, and realistic graphics helps a lot.

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toynbee piefed.social toynbee@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-09-12
#28 · Quote Reply

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I like that the answers you got are definitively "yes" and "no."

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KurtVonnegut mander.xyz KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz
Joined: 2024-08-28
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"You people" 🥲

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pinball_wizard lemmy.zip pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-02-13
#30 · (edited) Quote Reply

I was already convinced that GTA VI was the better value, even before all the detailed comments about how much more expensive the first bomber was than the lastest.

Any time someone acts out any violent fantasies in a video games, rather than as a head of state, that's a win.

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pinball_wizard lemmy.zip pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-02-13
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I think you could get a waiver for that these days.

Yeah, as long as they have had a job for at least five years, 12 year olds can fly a fighter jet in most US states. (This is obvious satire, that is unfortunately becoming less obvious with time.)

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ilovesaggytits:) lemmus.org LightYagami@lemmus.org
Joined: 2026-03-20
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I still to this day can't understand where this fact of them using 2 billion dollars for a fucking video game has come from.

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