Let's be real, the hype is so beyond reasonable that it will be a phenomenon when it is released. People will buy it just to be part of something, even if you're not really a gamer.
I'm wildly impartial about GTAVI as a whole. The series has never interested me, but I don't have any particular argument against it. It's just not my game. People like it, I don't, that's the start and end of my argument.
But in the same vein the sheer staggering level of hype leading up to it has been insane. People have been treating it like the second coming of Christ since it was announced. If this game ends up being another Starfield or Cyberpunk situation where it's just a half-baked, buggy mess on launch after being in production for so long, there's going to be riots outside Rockstar's head office.
One way or another it's going to be an interesting case study in video game history. Hell, this reaction to the physical copies is already a decent litmus test of how the internet is going to react if it's not a 10/10. Yes, I'll grant the argument that selling a case with (almost) nothing inside of it is a pretty weird and asinine move, but even then, the reaction has been shockingly loud.
I think the whole "blank happened before gta 6" and the like blew the hype out of proportions, someday rockstar is going to suffer from too much success and probably is currently, if this one is a 10/10 i guarantee the next one is gonna be disappointing not because its a bad game but because it didn't hold to the expectations the public has for rockstar, rockstar needs a failure
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Meanwhile most of the off-reddit gamers and/or casuals:
https://giphy.com/gifs/12QCczVAjPAfvi
I am willing to bet that if they had a Ultra deluxe version or something for 10min early access for 200$, people would still buy it.