Red Dead Redemption 2 being one of the most hunted games for news has perhaps copped a small blow as Rockstar’s parent publisher Take-Two says it believes in the PC market but doesn’t know if Red Dead Redemption 2 will be on it.
During an earnings call today President Karl Slatoff said:
“It really depends on the title. Some titles are actually heavily weighted to PC, for example, Civilization and XCOM, [but] some titles are less weighted to PC,” he explained. “The great news is that the PC market is vibrant for us. It’s a great market. It’s a big market. It’s a core market.
“These are consumers who are highly engaged. It’s a predominantly digital market, which also removes friction in terms of ongoing engagement with the consumer. So for us, the PC market as a company is very important, very exciting, and something we focus on.”
According to GameSpot when the President was asked directly if Red Dead Redemption 2 would be coming to PC or not he replied with: “Any updates about any of our titles will come from our labels.”
Keep in mind Rockstar has no evidence at all to a possible sequel coming to PC so we can only keep our fingers crossed for maybe a reconsidered investment into the PC market.
Source: GameSpot
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The way gta is selling on the pc i doubt take-two and rockstar will pass up that opportunity.
oh boy ,not again
the reaction will be f***rockstar we don’t want your game => sign petition => two years later ,R* releases it for PC => love u R* => f*** u console peasants
Gta v sales better on pc than does on consoles nowdays money speaks….and i don’t think r* is that high or that stupid
Wait a year after console,maybe???
Oh for f*ck’s sake.
Clickbait is clickbait, come on guys.
I mean, it’s not like Rocksh*t is ever going to pass up that PC money, they’re far too greedy for that.
Especially now that they’re doing Shark Cards 2.0 in RDR2 (“Bonds”).
Thought the same. And i’ll buy the damn game if it’s as good or better than the first one
I doubt it. Chances are they’re investing most of their focus into the online portion after GTAV, so while they’ll probably have a pretty looking SP world, it won’t have the level of detail that we’ve become accustomed to from Rocksh*ts, since they’ll have been too busy making up microtransactionable bullsh*t to shove down our throats, instead.
Microtransactions are cancer. True dat.
Omg what has gaming become…
Micro transactions aren’t new tho, removing then that was the innovation.
if i was a game developer i’d throw as many microtransactions as i could
Because ? Money ? Or to spread cancer to your user baser ?
🙂
money, the sole purpose that all video game companies exist to serve, without money they have no reason to exist
Of course you would, troll.
Nice trolling with you some more, troll.
Goodbye now, troll.
how am i trolling in slightest? if someone is telling the truth you always label them as troll
Not really, it’s mainly you & you know how, why, etc.
We’ve been over this. You don’t “truth”, you troll.
They did pass up PC money the first time but the context was a little bit different back then.
The context was that the game was made on the first version of the rage engine while gta v pc was made on the latest version superior than max payne 3 and by a studio that has never made a pc game.
no PC was full of pirates like you that made the porting process pointless since sale money wouldn’t even cover costs of porting process but fortunately for us legit users everything changed
Tell that to GTA 5 on PC which still regularly tops Steam sales lists
your point?gta v is still one of the most pirated games of all time, if it wasn’t because of online mode, most pirates wouldn’t be forced to buy it for legit
That Rockstar have made a fortune from GTA 5 and there’s clear evidence it financially viable for them to release on PC…..is that clear enough for you? Plus don’t forget they continue to make fortune off online aspect of game.
Deeeeek head
kid you have severe autism,what is your point, my point was that PC was full of pirates as it is still now but legit customers were very few back then, now do you have anything against that?because you keep replying to me and i don’t really get why it’s towards my comments
Gta 4 was ported to pc as was LA Noire, which were both big budget games, so sorry I’m not buying that piracy was the reason there wasn’t a port of red dead.
Rockstar are one company that have no issues making money regardless of piracy and red dead also had online element to game, so by your own argument that would have increased sales.
LOL.
Yeah, they introduced microtransactions & stopped giving anywhere near as much of a f*ck about the initial $60 compared to what they get out of so many people afterwards.
….. Great!
Idiot.
Not to mention the potential for massive microtransaction profits.
No way in f*ck are they ever going to pass that up.
Precisely. Take Two and Rockstar are playing the cynical PR game once more. They saw how so many gamers double dipped and even triple dipped with the staggered release of GTA V and they’re seeking to repeat the same trick here so to maximise sales again.
If they confirmed now that a PC version of RDR 2 was in the pipeline then not as many people will be buying the console version because they’ll be content to wait for the superior PC version. Lest we forget that many PC gamers also own at least one console so if they can be duped by implied messages from Take Two/Rockstar in to believing RDR 2 won’t be coming to PC then they’ll buy the console version… and then also the PC version when it eventually appears.
Expect further non-committal statements from Take Two/Rockstar that stop short of being an outright confirmation that the game will or will not be coming to PC. Circa 6-12 months after the console version’s release once sales have peaked and the worst of the bugs have been patched there’ll be the announcement of the PC version. Despite this article’s unfortunate clickbait headline there’s plenty in Take Two’s statement to suggest the game will be coming to PC.
Put another way, anybody who believes that a company with Take Two’s track record of greed will be leaving a ton of money on the table by not releasing a sure-fire blockbuster hit game on PC is very much mistaken.
Not to mention all the potential microtransaction profits, which I think they care more about now than they do the base game’s actual sales figures & profit margins by this point, considering all the money they’ve made off of them already.
(See also their whole “we’re not making enough money off of microtransactions yet” statement, for that matter)
Yep. Take Two, as has been evidenced, are intent on extracting every last possible dime and more from the sale of their products. I have no issue with that in principle because it’s their absolute prerogative to do so, just as it’s our prerogative to question their methods.
Just like with GTA V the console release of RDR 2 will arrive first whereby Rockstar’s next task will once more be to patch the likely shambolic state of its presumed online component, bugs and performance issues. Then, again like with GTA V, they’ll work on the PC version without announcing it so to keep multi-platform gamers buying the initially released inferior version on console.
Eventually they’ll announce the PC version whereby many of the aforementioned gamers will grumble about having been duped for a second time but they’ll double dip regardless. Again like GTA V, expect the PC version to feature higher standards of visual fidelity, massively superior performance, option to use mouse+k/b, etc. With a bit of luck Take Two will allow modding too but following the recent drama in relation to OpenIV that remains to be seen.
They’ll likely take some steps to curb modding capabilities using the excuse of “enforcing online security” or something along those lines, but they won’t dare try to shut down the entire endeavour now that they know how many people are interested in that aspect – though they might also try the Bethesda approach of “control & monetise”, if they manage to get that up & running first.
I don’t think they’re stupid enough to go all-out death squads on them, but…… sh*t, who knows. They’re obviously delusional, after all.
Good point on the Rocksh*t Social Club. I wonder if they’ve the balls to try & pull RDR2 from Steam entirely, or if they’re saving that move for GTA VI 😮
Good call re: the possibility of them observing how effectively gamers embrace Zenimax’s exploitation of the modding scene as a yardstick to determine if they seek to ape it with something of their own.
My gut feeling on that one is that they’ll be 100% focused on emptying gamers’ wallets with micro-transactions in a GTA Online-type mode in RDR 2 to be bothered with monetising the mod scene. I suspect they’ll permit something akin to OpenIV albeit, as you say, with a tightening up of the ‘rules’ as they see them.
Hmm, I wouldn’t be surprised if they seek to tempt gamers toward the Rockstar Social Club version with tat such as exclusive pre-order bonuses, in-game currency, etc. Such will be the commercial pulling power of RDR 2 that they could make the game exclusive to it but, as you say, they’re probably more likely to take that bold step first with GTA VI if they do so at all.
As a semi-related point, selling games on Steam is still a more profitable venture for publishers on a per unit basis than it is to sell their games on consoles. Steam’s 30% cut may be substantial (although it’s no more than GOG, to be fair) but it’s still less than selling on console due to the myriad fees and percentage cut levied by Sony/Microsoft.
Oh they definitely will at some point, the signs are all there between Activision trying it with Destiny 2 & Bugthesda with Skyrim Special Edition + Elder Scrolls VI, so I can absolutely see Greedstars just watching them, waiting to see how that works out for either of them before they also take the plunge.
After all, if Elder Scrolls is big enough to drop Steam with minimal casualties, the behemoth that is GTA can most certainly do it without even batting an eyelid. I mean, sh*t, the entirety of EA got away with dropping Steam, for that matter.
Oh, indeed. Good luck pointing that out to them, though. They’ve been console a$$lickers for a decade now & that’s not about to change any time soon no matter how much more of the profit pie we generate for them with each individual sale, unfortunately.
Us referencing Skyrim and consoles in the same debate just had my teeth on edge, lol! That game, as we all know, was in part designed around the chronic limitations of the consoles of the time. Hence the loading screens at certain points, limited size cities, small number of on-screen NPCs, etc. Thank heavens for the great PC modding scene with mods such as Open Cities, the Populated series, Holds, Bruma and more which have helped remedy those limitations to some extent.
SkyUI…..
Ugh.
Yep. Thank heavens an earlier version of that crucial mod is able to run on Skyrim SE.
This circlejerk. I would say get a room, but Zatara is mine.
Join in. There’s plenty of meaty flesh to go around….. at least on my end ^^
Your end is the only thing i want 😉
Yeah, they’re obviously going to delay the announcement as much as possible (after consoles release) to get people to double-dip, just as they did with GTA V.
Yeah, saddening
I read “don’t wait for the pc version buy it on consoles” […”And on PC 1 year later”
“Well and buy again the enhanced 4k edition on PS5 and XOX in 2019″…]
Plz not this again. They denied gtav for years and look where it is now…
“Red Dead Redemption 2 may not come to the PC” from which sentence did you actually make this title?
From the rear-end.
Really, by reading the article, the title could easily be “Red Dead Redemption 2 may come to the PC”.
Nice clickbait
Thank god I’m not mentally ill and I have no stupid principles against buying a console. I’ll enjoy it when it comes out instead of watching people on youtube playing it and I’ll enjoy it again after 2 years with mods on PC. 🙂
So you’ll buy the game twice? Rockstar loves customers like you. That’s why they dragged their feet about saying whether or not GTA V would come to PC eventually. Some gamers thought it might not so they rushed out and bought it on console and probably ended up buying it again on PC later for the superior PC gaming experience.
Yeah, I’ll buy the game twice if it’s a game I love because I want to support the gaming industry. I want developers to be rich, because they make amazing games and they deserve it. Instead of blaming developers for taking 2 years to bring their game to PC how about we stop being so cheap and actually buy games on PC instead of being so f-ing cynic all the time? Maybe if they saw that we actually buy their games and PC is worth their time, devs will actually put more work into optimizing games on PC and we won’t have to wait 2 more years than consoles for a game to come out.
Problem with your little theory being Rocksh*t now officially cares more about microtransaction profits than they do that little $60 entry fee we have to cough up, so “supporting these amazing games because they deserve it” as far as they’re concerned means wh*ring yourself out to Shark Cards 2.0.
Anything short of that & you can f*ck off back to wherever you came from, pirate or no pirate.
As for mods on the PC; you’ll get what they let you have, assuming they’re not dumb enough to try & shut down that entire market segment entirely (again). So, pray tell, will you still buy it twice if they defile its modding capabilities like a good little shill, or will you then, finally, grow a pair of balls & stand up to their bullsh*t?
I really wonder.
I was very happy with the single player component of GTA 5 and don’t care about the microtransactions because I don’t play multiplayer. If that changes in their future games I will not support them anymore. So far they haven’t done anything to piss me off personally.
OpenIV? >.>
there is nothing wrong buying it for a console, but don’t be disappointed when the game chugs on 30 FPS and the campaign is short because Kike2/Kikestar is focusing mostly on the MP aspect of the game (microtransactions)
my advise to you? rent it.
don’t give this bull$hit company any money they can use to gauge the customers
Thank god i am also not mentally ill and i am not buying the worse version of a game in order to play it before everyone else…
Like say the xbox 360 version of rise o the tomb raider or the ps4 version of a ubisoft game in order to get the dlc first.
…… and then buy it again because i am mentally ill and i like playing the worst version with the worst graphics and the worst controls and the worst mp, only to re buy it again 2 years later spending 120 bucks to experiance the crappy version first as if i am doing early access game reviews.
Triggered lol. I’m sorry that I’m not a peasant who only buys games during steam summer sale and I don’t want to wait 3 years to play a game when everyone else is having fun playing it. Also, besides the 30 FPS and medium-high graphics settings, console games play very well and controller is great for 3rd person games. If I have to choose between playing a 30 FPS version of the game that is still a lot of fun and waiting 3 years to play it, I think I choose to play it lol.
another baseless (but probably true) article about rockstar being C u n t s
what a suprise…
Just another huge and empty boring sandbox game anyway so I’m not bothered if it skips the PC. I wish we could get back to making more linear great story games.
Currently Prey and Dishonored 2 offer the best balance of freedom and structure with worlds that are interesting to interact with. I feel that we need more games akin to Bioshock. Rockstar’s games are empty what do you do just drive and shoot that gets boring real quick. Yes they are detailed and well designed but lack compelling game play.
Obviously considering it’s sales I am alone in this opinion.
It’s like with Skyrim; the sh*t’s been degraded in favour of quantity over quality, but at the end of the day good real open-world sandbox games can still be made – just not by these people, who are obviously far more interested in the online portion of the game, now.
Agreed everyone nowadays seems to be striving for huge open world games whereas, they would be better off reducing the play area to a quarter of the size and filling it with more detail and interesting things to do.
Look at the latest Ghost Recon game the size of the gaming area is ridiculous and completely unnecessary MGS V was the same a huge open expanses of nothing. Constant traveling to objectives I just got sick of it.
There is a lot to be said for crafting a linear story driven adventure with a clear focus. Even my old favourite Deus Ex did a better job years ago with excellent open structured level design that still manged to offer the player plenty of freedom and choices and a game world that felt alive.
if it comes to xbox then its already on pc with windows store. the title should be, ”
Red Dead Redemption 2 may not come to STEAM”
Not necessarily; the UWP cross-play thing is an opt-in feature for developers & so far it’s been limited to Microsoft titles. Besides, I doubt they’ll take the big leap & go for Social Club exclusivity with RDR2, as they’re probably saving that for GTA VI.
But yeah, if it’s not coming to Steam, then chances are extremely high it won’t be making the Windows [10] Store, either.
The first 2 RDR games are console exclusives. Nothing says the third game will be on PC
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8cd7e5e340eff3ba0a1efa7b8113c919f69381f27693aa817f889e118af51406.jpg
Don’t worry the game will have a ton of greedy DLCs even if it’s not on PC
This kind of news = Free advertising for them.
even if he did say such a thing, it’d be nothing but pure shady advertisement, everyone knows their formula to get the most sales is to release on consoles first then release on PC, put yourself in his shoes, public knows about your marketing moves so they’re going to lie as hard as they can to convince everyone to buy consoles versions, we know how easy it is to get away with marketing lies in this industry
also remember the only reason a company exists is to make money, passing on a big PC audience who’s been starving since the first title?nah, you got to be really thick if you think that’s going to happen
John what? From what he said it seems more likely that RDR 2 WILL come to PC rather than not.
More clickbait bullshit. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Yawn.
I like this site, but clickbaits like these are inadmissible.
f*ck rockstar. after the delays of gta5 and their treatment of the pc userbase, i wont be buying from them any time soon
I stopped going to other more “famous” gaming sites, due to non gaming related content and click bait articles being abundant, and like I said about the AMD bias articles, DSO you are Fing pushing it…
This is the same type of BS non answer they have when originally asked about GTA V PC. Between the Denuvo database leak showing R* listed, the high sales of GTA V PC, and them not saying no, I’d say a port is damn near certain.
Make up your mind already!
personally didn’t like the original.
Tried to play it multiple times and even tried the zombie dlc and still couldn’t get into it.
I owned it on PS3 and couldn’t get into it, either. Open-world games on console are just not as fun as their PC counterparts.
Sick clickbait.
Dude if you want views just post Denuvo articles. Watch the pirates, legit buyers, and anti DRM guys battle it out in the comments section.
EDIT: Apparently John didn’t make this article. My bad LOL.
F*ck yeah.
Shall we say….. it launches on PC within 18 months of the console launch? And yeah, I know that’s being extremely generous. I mean, there isn’t a chance in hell they’re going to wait that long to start counting all that PC muniez & the engine tech isn’t new so there shouldn’t be technical difficulties etc. but who knows, something unexpected might pop up…… as unlikely as that is.
They want to triple dip again. They’ll release it on the current consoles, then the “next-gen” consoles and then the super-duper edition for PC, hoping that some people buy all three versions. It’s what they did with GTA V and made off like bandits. They’ll do it again.
I had a PS3, owned RDR and got through a few hours before I returned it. Open-world games on console with a gamepad are trash. I’d rather not play it at all if it’s not on PC.
RDR 2 not coming to the PC? Is anyone surprised at all?