$2.1 billion in salaries since 2019 is the number getting all the attention. The number that actually explains GTA 6's timeline is $710 million.
That's how much the GTA franchise generated last fiscal year. Thirteen years after launch. GTA 5 is still selling 20 million copies a year at full price. GTA Online still has 22 million monthly active players spending real money on virtual cars and apartments. The franchise has cleared over $10 billion lifetime and the annual revenue curve is barely declining.
This is the part every "most expensive game ever" headline misses. Rockstar isn't slow because $3 billion is hard to spend. Rockstar is slow because GTA 5 is still a $700 million per year business and every prior console generation transition has shown significant revenue disruption during the handoff.
When GTA 4 launched, GTA San Andreas revenue collapsed. When GTA 5 launched, GTA 4 went to zero overnight. The installed base resets. The online economy resets. The microtransaction flywheel that took a decade to build resets. Day one of GTA 6 is also the last day of GTA Online's current economy.
If GTA 6 launches and the online mode takes 18 months to reach GTA Online's current engagement levels, that's over a billion dollars in opportunity cost during the transition window. If it takes longer, the number gets worse.
The $3 billion development cost isn't the risk. The risk is killing a $700 million annual revenue stream before its replacement is ready to print at the same rate. Every delay is Rockstar protecting the most profitable entertainment product ever made while making sure its successor can match that run rate on arrival.
The game will ship when the online infrastructure is bulletproof. The single player campaign has probably been done for a while.
When people bring up complaints about the light (power) situation in Nigeria, nothing frustrates me more than those who reply with statements like:
"It's your area that's bad",
"In my estate, we have almost 24 hours light",
"Move to a better place".
It's absurd to hear such statements because the people complaining about the light aren't living in the Atlantic ocean, they're living in the same Nigeria. Our national grid dependably generates ~5,000 MW for a population of over 200 million people! That's unfathomably small, especially when you compare it to our neighbours, Ghana - who generate a similar capacity for a population smaller than 20% of ours.
So if you have "constant light" in your area, take a step back and consider yourself lucky, while acknowledging the obvious problem. Choosing to stay out of touch and making stupid statements similar to the above examples given does not look good on you.
There's a power infrastructure problem in our country, and your estate's "constant light" is hardly representative of the national situation.
Today at the FCT Command of the Nigeria Police Force in Abuja, I confronted the Minister of Works, David Umahi inside a conference room where police operatives had effectively set up shop for him to harass a woman who a used him of owing her and making a pass at her years ago.
A married woma, TracyNither Nicolas Ohiri had been illegally arrested in Lagos on allegations of “cyberbullying,” flown to Abuja, and detained.
Her alleged offense was accusing David Umahi of owing her N250 million for over 12 years, a claim that, at its core, is a civil dispute.
Rather than treat the matter as such, the police escalated it into a criminal spectacle. After unlawfully detaining her, the police facilitated a meeting in which Umahi was brought into the command to threaten, intimidate, and denigrate her inside a police facility until we arrived and they immediately dismantled the “interview” and Umahi left, angry.
After Umahi lef, they redused to grant her bail or release her, we later learnt Imahi promosed that shes not seen anything on his way out of the FCT police command.
You think if Nigeria were unstable; plagued by unrest or war you’d still be working remotely and earning in dollars?
When the dollar was ₦450, earning $1,000 gave you ₦450,000.
Today, with the dollar around ₦1,500, that same $1,000 earns ₦1.5 million.
Do you really think the government you constantly bash isn’t deliberately allowing a high exchange rate so Nigerians can earn more from exporting skills, services, and goods?
You most likely when to public primary and secondary schools thats fully paid for by Govt or public tertiary institution that's heavily subsidized by Govt.
Pay your tax and stop being irresponsible.
'A Brief Disagreement' by Steve Cutts is a brilliant animated short depicting a visual journey into mankind's favourite pastime throughout the ages.
Meaning — humanity's inclination to fight each other.
The Let Out is an amazing song 🤍Cole ain’t rapping bout rich nigga shit , APs n expensive dinners , he rapping bout making it home safe after the club man this shit hit home
Let me deep somethings for Nigerians, maybe it would spark a bit of anger.
A 9-5 pays PAYE (Pay as you earn) to the respective states yeah?
So, if I’m earning 300k as net salary, then my gross would be 370k issh.
Would roughly pay 41k as PAYE.
Now what’s that 41k supposed to cover?
The basic amenities like - water running to your house, electricity, good road network, wastage system, gas, security etc. yeah?
Now, that my 41k is supposed to be part of other people’s 41k, 3k, 100k and even 1m PAYE so we can get common amenities. Where we have to then pay maybe a subsidized amount to maintain these things from my 300k
So, in essence, I will pay 41k to have those amenities and maybe another 30k from my 300k to have access to those services on a monthly.
Now, here lies the problem- We provide water light and security for ourselves, yet we pay government taxes to provide same.
I have paid the 41k to government, and I am going out there to provide another 50-60k to get same thing I have paid before to government. Isn’t that like double taxation?
Let’s start from waste disposal- they don’t come, so you call Beruwa.
Water - no government water, so you build boreholes, buy pumping machines and buy tanks.
Gas - Government of Nigeria doesn’t even know that exists
Electricity- no stable light, so you have to buy generator or solar to sustain. Keep buying fuel etc or doing maintenance on solar.
Now if any of you deep it, that money you are using for all these things are actually supposed to be your savings for the future.
That 3m for solar, that’s money that if invested would help you on the future. Or calculate the fuel money you buy every 3days or the money you pay for electricity to pump water. Compound that money and you should actually have savings.
And yet, we don’t even hold our government accountable anymore
So sad.
So, you earn 300k, you paid tax of 41k already for basic things, you still end of paying another 50-60k to get those basic things by yourself.
You haven’t even considered food or travels or transportation or shopping or sending money to family. But you are already short by 60k
Well, it is well
This one pain me pass the last one.
Look this car well. This no be small accident. This na total structural failure. People definitely enter emergency room here. Maybe people die. Airbags deploy. Chassis bend. Load paths collapse. This car don finish for safety sense.
Yet una dey rebuild am, spray paint, and sell am like say na normal used car.
Make we talk plain.
Once structure don collapse like this, the car no be car again. Na shell. You fit weld iron. You fit change panels. But you no fit recreate factory crash geometry, load distribution, sensor calibration, or stability behavior.
This kind car enter Nigerian road, hit pothole at speed, suspension alignment shift small, ESP calibration confuse, steering react late, next thing rollover or loss of control. Person die. Then dem go say na village people.
This no be business. Na wickedness.
Insurance companies abroad no dey foolish. Dem write off cars like this because the risk no fit be priced. That na why abroad, this car no suppose ever return to road without permanent salvage stigma and deep discount.
But Nigerians think say we too smart. We dey laugh say “fall mugu” while we dey sell death wrapped in paint.
Selling cars like this without conscience no be hustle.
Na gambling with human lives.
Nigerians, be careful.
And those of una wey dey proud to advertise this thing, may God give una sense.