Take-Two head said that PC has become “a more important part of the hosting business in the past.”
Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick said in a recent interview with IGN that PC has become an important part of the gaming ecosystem, not in the past, and it has brought a large portion of sales to multiplayer games. And, if you think that means he is ready to get on the PC version of Grand Theft Auto 6 soon, you better think about it again.
“So the CIV 7 can be instantly switched on console and PC as well,” Zelnick said, referring to the recently released Civilization 7 of Sid Meier, published by Take-Two’s 2K Games Division. “As far as others in our roster are concerned, we don’t always access all platforms at the same time. Historically, Rockstar started with some platforms and then moved from historically to others.”
Undeniably correct. Starting with Grand Theft Auto Auto about 25 years ago, Rockstar made us wait for 7 months to 14 years of races to make their races slowly extend from console to PC. There is no technical reason for persistent delay, no, but as Ted Litchfield of PC gamers speculates, there is an explanation that makes sense: GTA 6 will take serious attitudes to the console, and by releasing the PC version on the PC, Take-Two Take-Two Can As Ted says, enjoying the second revenue bump – “a little bit of profit burner” – may be partly driven by people who end up buying the game twice, because They want to play games on their PC, but they can’t wait for themselves.
“We’ve seen PCs become an increasingly important part of the gaming console business in the past, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see this trend continue,” Zelnick said, with more priorities than the past. But, he continued, “Of course, there will be a new console generation.”
“When you have big champions in the market, we have a lot of people coming, and historically, this has sold consoles,” Zelnick said.
“And I think this will happen this year. I don’t think the tariffs are going to be our friend, but I think that console sales in Calendar 25 will make sense because of the release schedule, not just from us because of the release schedule. , but from someone else. [console sales falling]. I think the trend you are looking at is the increasing market share reflected in PC. ”
Pessimistically you might read this because it implies that the PC version of GTA 6 will be blocked from the next console generation, PlayStation 6 and Xbox series any. This will provide Rockstar with the opportunity to release a “enhanced” game version of the new generation of consoles and remove that version on PC, which provides an excuse for impatient PC gamers to provide an excuse for new popularity on the platform, they Really want to play it first. That’s how it works with the GTA 5, although the game hit the tail end of the console generation, released on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in the fall of 2013. A year later, the next generation of the game’s ports emerged, until April 2015, when the PC was released for nearly six months.
Look, we know that Grand Theft Auto 6 will be available on PC at some point – there is no way to go, so much will leave so much money on the table. The only question is when. I may have read too much about this, but I can’t help asking if we’re also a little overly optimistic about the 26-era GTA 6.
