Take-Two Is "Laser-Focused" on Quality; Rockstar Has "Enormous Bandwidth" to Work on Multiple Projects

Take-Two's 2d quarter of financial year 2022 saw the company outperform predictions. That'southward generally due to splendid results past Mafia 3 (which debuted every bit the fastest selling game in 2K'south history when information technology comes to beginning calendar week sales), NBA 2K17, GTAV/Online and Civilization Half dozen.

During the usual investor Q&A, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick took the opportunity to boast about the company'southward particualr focus on developing quality titles.

...our artistic teams are encouraged to focus on something they're highly passionate well-nigh. And and so I would say, we are all, everyone, at this visitor is laser-focused on quality. And once more, fifty-fifty that doesn't always work out according to plan merely more frequently than not, it does.

When an investor suggested that Rockstar might accept some difficulties with their DLC output in GTA Online since they're now besides working on Ruby-red Dead Redemption 2, Zelnick apace dispelled that notion.

And Rockstar Games has enormous bandwidth to piece of work on multiplicity of opportunities simultaneously, and I think nosotros all tin be really proud of their ability to practise so and to delight consumers while delivering experiences that critics resoundingly rate as perfect or very almost perfect. So we've an enormous corporeality of confidence in that label and their performance, and we're incredibly excited about what is to come up.

Red Dead Redemption two, recently announced past Rockstar subsequently years of rumors, received its first in-game trailer two weeks agone. With sales predictions in the range of 12 million units, the game will undoubtedly exist a major cistron in Have-Two'southward 2022 performance. Even though information technology's merely been confirmed for PlayStation 4 and Xbox I and then far, analysts believe information technology volition eventually be released on PC also, though maybe with a delay of a few months.

This is what happened with both Grand Theft Auto IV and V, though no Red Dead game always released on PC so far. Nosotros'll keep you updated either style.