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Initial thought: My country is looking pretty good, quite a bit better than the Brits!

But then @plyth@feddit.org pointed out that the numbers of Russia and Türkiye are drastically different between the Euope and Asia maps, so I decided to do a bit of digging.

The Europe map just says they used "a mathematical formula that determines the working time", but the other maps indicate they used the median income rather than minimum wage, so let's go with that.

According to the Central Statistics Office, median weekly income in the first three months of 2026 AD was €1074.61, which works out to €26.87 an hour assuming a person gets paid for 40 hours each week. €26.87/hr × 2.19hr/GTA6 = €58.83/GTA6). Which, uh, considering GTA6 is going to cost €79.99, either these people aren't using the median. Someone earning the actual median wage would need to work just shy of three hours to afford 1 GTA6, and that's not taking taxes into account.

All right, let's check the UK. According to the House of Commons Library, the median weekly income is £767, which for a 40-hour week works out to £19.18 (that's €22.38, which is a fair bit lower than the Irish median. I wonder if Brexit has something to do with this). If the map is using median income and ignoring taxes, it means that GTA6 will cost £95.68 in the UK, which it fucking won't (because it's €111.62). The BBC reports that it will cost £70, which is about normal; the UK price is normally computed by taking the cost in yankeebucks, applying an exchange rate of 0.9 English lira per yankeebuck, rounding it to the nearest £10, and subtracting 1p. At the actual price, the map indicates that the median income in the UK is £14.03 an hour, which is just £1.32 above the minimum wage for people over 20.

(Some of the above figures have a discrepancy of 1% of the unit of currency due to rounding).

So yeah, I have no idea where these people are getting their numbers from or what maths they're doing.

From the fine print it looks like this is based on the US price. Can we get one that is adjusted for regional pricing?

The prices for Russia and Türkiye don't match in the first two maps.

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For me: zero hours. I'm not buying GTA6, for several reasons. I still haven't finished GTA5 for one thing, nor, probably, will I. The world building and satire is pretty good, but at the end of it all, it's just another bog-standard 3rd person shooter. Yawn.

German median hourly is around 18€ to 25€, but probably closer to the lower end. GTA6 is around 70€ (if converted from 80usd, as the small print suggests) so for 2.32 to be true, the median would have to be >30€.

If you're from Australia or New Zealand, just taken the mean of all the other Commonwealth nations and then add 5.

From the

Missing a lot of information.

I fall into the 3.8 time frame in the US because I'm in management.

But there are people within many different sectors that have different hourly rates. Like a freshly graduated high school student working at Target or Subway isn't making between 22-30 an hour to hit around 3.8 hours of work.

Or someone working at restaurant during the low hours might not see enough tips to cover the cost of entry. Especially if they have to split tips with the rest of the house.

So I'm really not sure this is accurate.