GTA 6 could save you at least $5,000 according to British millionaire's maths

Self-made millionaire Mark Tilbury has suggested that gamers could save themselves a whopping $5,000 (£3,724) by buying Grand Theft Auto VI.

You probably already have your GTA 6 excuses lined up and are planning to be struck down by a sudden illness later this month which means you'll need some time off work, but Tilbury reckons it could be fun for your bank account too.

Crunching his numbers, the millionaire said that a copy of GTA 6 would cost you $99.99 if you lived over in the US, and while that sounds like a lot he suggested that with the claims it'll take 80 hours to complete the game's story that brings the cost per hour right down.

Basically, you'd be paying $1.25 an hour for your experience.

Throw in the side missions and all the other stuff you can do, as one developer playtesting the game spent hours getting to his next mission going through plenty of content without reaching his goal, and Tilbury reckons you're actually spending closer to 50c per hour.

How playing GTA 6 could save you money

The millionaire suggested that if you take a gaming session as four hours per evening then with all the stuff to do in the game that could be '50 nights of entertainment' you're getting from it.

He's lined that up against going out for 50 nights 'where you could easily spend $100' each time.

With the way the cost of living is going that's not a ridiculous proposition, and it's why he's argued 'buying GTA 6 actually saves you $5,000'.

"This is the boy maths we've been waiting for," one commenter declared, and it is a very appealing bit of numerical handiwork.

Someone else said it 'also works with every other videogame as well', while several others said they'd take Tilbury's calculations to their parents or wife.

Another fan declared they'd buy four copies as 'that's $20,000 in my pocket', though sadly it doesn't quite work that way.

Just think of your gaming habit as saving you money each time you start playing, you could be out with friends drinking copious amounts of alcohol, but instead you're being wise and staying at home committing virtual crimes and joyriding around what sounds like a very interactive city.

This delightful dollop of boy maths assumes you've got a console to play GTA 6 on and a TV to actually see what you're doing, but if you were planning on getting the game those are fairly safe assumptions to make.

GTA 6 releases on 19 November

It's getting tantalisingly close now and the fact of the matter is that GTA 6 is going to be out two weeks and two days from now, so it's time to save a bit of money ahead of the expensive Christmas period by filling up your free time with it.

Given the game's expected gargantuan file size you'll be able to start pre-loading it from 12 November onwards, meaning that not much of your conveniently timed sick leave will be spent watching it install onto your console for you to start playing.

Since the download size is expected to be around 210 GB that'd be a lot of sitting and waiting about if you're not planning on pre-loading.

The current release date is for those who have a PlayStation 5, PlayStation 5 Pro, Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S in their home, it's not going to be available on previous generation consoles.

There's also no official confirmation on when exactly the PC version release date will be, though it's hoped to be arriving within the first three months of 2027.