ZM's Bree & Clint - Things that cost less than GTA 6

Episode Date: July 7, 2026

You wouldn't BELIEVE how much money and time it took to make Grand Theft Auto 6, Bree's got the list of all the monuments and pricey items you could buy for the same amount it took to make GTA 6. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You tapped it, so we're playing it. It's ZDM's Brian Clint, the podcast. As the resident gamer on the show, although Claude is playing a bit of Nintendo Switch. Yeah, we're playing a Nintendo Switch. I play a lot of Tomodachi life, guys. I play real games. I'm making me's every day.

A game that I have been very excited about for many, many years is Grand Theft Auto 6. Yeah. Delayed, delayed, delayed, delayed, delayed. GTA6. It's been delayed so many times. 13 years we've been waiting. Wow. It's a long bloody time.

And they kept telling us, it's coming, guys, it's coming. And that was years ago. Anyway, it finally was available for pre-order last week, which is exciting. Comes out officially in November, I believe. Still, you still got to wait until November? Still got to wait. Okay. They reckon it's going to be the great.

greatest driving game in computer game history. Okay. Better than crash team racing? Oh, it'll be close, but... Better than need for speed, high pursuit? Might just get it. Okay. I mean, I've read so many things about it over the years,

but one of the biggest things that sticks out and people talk about is how much this game has cost to make. Yeah. Oh, to make. To make. Right. And you probably, because you're not in the gaming world, so you probably haven't heard. No, I don't care.

But take a guess. To make it? To make it. So how much is, yeah, how much money's gone into making the game? Well, I know that it's comparable to movies because there's that much special effects and things involved. Yeah. I'll say $100 million to make the new GTA 6 games. 100 million?

Producers, have you seen anything? Am I out of reach? Because I thought I was like under a million. Under a million? Under a million. That's a million is a lot of money. Do you know how much things cost? Nah.

Okay. Under million. I assume everything's under a million. Um, Ella? Maybe 50 million, but honestly it could be crazy. To make GTA 6. Yeah. Reports say that to make the new GTA 6th.

It costs. What are you doing? I'm trying to do a drum roll. Two billion dollars. What? Two billion. Wow. I thought I would do a little bit of a comparison of things that cost less

than to make this video game, okay? Yeah. You could buy... Literally everything. You could buy an Aston Martin, not the car, the whole company for less, which is about 500 to 600 million. You could buy 40 Eiffel towers. Which would cost you around...

And we're talking US money, okay? It's US $2 billion. 40 Eiffel towers. Surely just the steel. The Eiffel Tower is going to be worth a couple billion dollars. So it costs around 1.5 million back in 1889. Oh, okay. But I have adjusted for modern inflation.

Wow. So roughly it would cost around 45 million to 50 million. Oh, whack up another Eiffel Tower. We should give myrtle tower, yeah. So you could get around 40 Eiffel towers before the cost of GTA6. The Birch Khalifa, which they say cost around $1.5 billion to build. You could get that before. The Sydney Opera House, you can buy that, which would cost around $1.2 billion today to make.

The Sydney Harbour Bridge, you could buy that as well, which would cost around $1.5 billion to make today. The top five movies in the world, you can make all five. You can make all five movies. That's basically all the Marvel movies. For less money than it costs to make GTA 6. You could buy the Mona Lisa. You could buy that. You could also buy and create the Titanic.

Multiple Titanic actually. Wow. Like replicas, you could. Are they in debt? Yeah, right? They are right. They are going to get this money back? They get $2 billion from.

Is the king and queen working on it? That's why they have to pay them. them so much? Two billion it's cost. Have you pre-ordered it? I pre-ordered it, yeah. How much? $175, is that about right?

I think so, yeah. Which, really, I know that's a lot of money for a video game. They have to charge that. It costs $2 billion to make it. It seems kind of cheap if they spent $2 billion making it. How many would they have to sell? Oh, I don't have the math on that. Claudia, can you do $2 billion divided by $175, please?

How many zeros are in a billion? Oh, no. Just type it into Google. Oh, yeah. People are pissed off because there's no CD for Grand Theft Auto 6. No way! It's just you pay that much money.

They just give you a code and you download it which means that you can't sell it after you've played it. That's where they stitch you up. Oh yeah, of course. Because that's what everyone did. You play the game and then you hock it off on trade need. And then you buy something else. And you reinvest in another game.

Can't do it anymore because there's no CDs. Yes, producer Claude. $2 billion divided by $175. How many copies do they need to sell? $11,4,4. 28,571.4. It's going to be easy. Easy, easy.

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