GTA 6: The Cost of Making the Biggest Game in the World

Grand Theft Auto 6 is reported to be the most expensive entertainment product ever made. This video is about how it got there — the three decades behind the biggest game in the world, and everything it cost along the way. From a game that almost didn’t survive its own launch, to the controversies that put the series in front of the US government, to what building these games has cost the people who make them. Sources & further reading: Business Insider — GTA 6 development cost estimate, via IGN/PC Gamer Reporting on the Hot Coffee scandal and the ESRB re-rating Brown v. EMA / Supreme Court ruling on video games as protected speech Reporting on Rockstar crunch — the Dan Houser interview and follow-up coverage IWGB / reporting on the 2025 union dismissals