The success GTA Online continues to have is one thing Rockstar mother or father firm Take-Two is seeking to repeat.
Speaking to Games Industry at E3, CEO Strauss Zelnick admitted that the corporate’s slate for this calendar 12 months is a bit skinny now that Red Dead Redemption 2 has been pushed to next year.
With the sport now aiming for a spring 2018 launch, it falls firmly in Take-Two’s fiscal 12 months 2019, so Zelnick is feeling quite a bit higher about that 12 months due to it.
The CEO additionally revealed that what GTA Online is doing has modified the best way the writer seems to be at Rockstar. He doesn’t outright say it, nevertheless it feels like Red Dead Redemption 2 goes to have a a lot larger on-line part now that the writer is aware of learn how to make it work.
“Obviously we know what Rockstar tends to do. And Rockstar’s activities have been transformed by Grand Theft Auto Online,” he stated.
Elsewhere within the interview, Zelnick reiterated that the writer is sitting on “a huge new title” that’ll additionally launch in FY2019, which he first teased in the most recent earnings call. The CEO is probably going referring to Gearbox’s Borderlands recreation, although it may very well be a very new IP.
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