GTA Online simply had its greatest month ever, 4 years after launch

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This is spectacular on condition that it comes greater than 4 years after the sport’s preliminary launch. This current success leads Take-Two to imagine Grand Theft Auto Online will proceed to develop all through the 2018 monetary yr. The numbers come off the again of the Gunrunning replace, which targeted on Blaine Country’s arms commerce, and allowed gamers to buy bunkers and large Mobile Command Centers.

In the transcript of the earnings call, Strauss Zelnick, CEO and govt chairman at Take-Two, says that GTA Online “was once again the single largest contributor to recurrent consumer spending,” and confirmed that Rockstar would “continue to support the game going forward.”

When requested in regards to the significance of the PC market, Karl Slatoff, the president of Take-Two, mentioned that whereas sure titles like XCOM and Civilization are extra geared in the direction of PC, different titles should not. However, he did say “the PC market is vibrant for us […], the PC market as a company is very important and very exciting and something we focus on.” Despite this, Zelnick wouldn’t say whether or not Red Dead Redemption 2 can be coming to PC – saying  “any updates about any of our titles will come from our labels.”

It was additionally introduced that NBA 2K17’s client spending had grown by 67%, additionally exceeding Take-Two’s expectations.