Take-Two’s chief executive officer Strauss Zelnick claimed something that may – or may not – please a number of PC gamers. During the company’s financial conference call for the fiscal year ended on March 31st, Zelnick said that the PC has become a very important platform to Take-Two.
Zelnick claimed that the PC platform has become a very important part of what the company does, driven by digital distribution.
Now I know what most of you are wondering: “If it’s so important then where is Red Dead Redemption 2?” Right? Well, Zelnick did not reveal anything about a possible PC version but I believe we can all safely assume that Red Dead Redemption 2 will come to the PC after its console release. Unless of course this was PR stunt and PC is not that important to Take-Two after all.
In related news, Take Two has also announced that one of its highly-anticipated titles from one of 2K’s biggest franchises, which had been planned for release during the current fiscal year, is now planned for launch during fiscal 2020. This could be Borderlands 3, especially since the game will not be present at this year’s E3 event.
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Oh really? I’ll believe it when Red Dead Redemption 2 comes out at the same time as the console version, and they don’t ruin the multiplayer by forcing what ever the hell this games Sharkcards will be.
You guys smell that? Smells like BS to me.
Look at GTA V.
Exactly my point.
Granted, porting an API from low level to high level, like DX11, would take about 6-8 months on top of the sales milking.
Or it could be that people that primarily game on consoles are more inclined to throw money into Shark Cards and other micro transactions than people that play on PC as their primary platform.
I’m not so sure about that. LoL is one glaring example of titles with microtransactions that folks flocked to. Granted, that was F2P.
Right, that’s free-to-play.
GTA 5 SP was great on PC, but the Online portion was atrocious piece of a console mess just ported over.
The interface, the networking design, everything about GTA Online on PC is terrible.
That and the whole we never bothered to port it until we started making the next gen console version irked me as well
GTA V was released on PC, so I don’t see what the issue is. You guys act like having to wait for a game physically hurts or something.
The issue was that it came 2 years after the game came out. Now a few months i don’t mind waiting but 2 years? Really?
What did you loose by having to wait? You got the best version of the game on your platform of choice. I don’t see a negative in that.
“we can all safely assume that Red Dead Redemption 2 will come to the PC after its console release”
Indeed. They profited handsomely from the peasantry having double-dipped and, in some cases, even triple-dipped with the three-stage staggered release of GTA V so are banking on a repeat performance with RDR2.
If multi-platform gamers want the real deal +60fps at ultra settings version then simply have a little patience by avoiding the inferior 30fps (at best) console versions.
With next gen on the horizon, I smell the same greedy tactic they used for GTA V to be used for RDR2. Expect them to shove the console version out, a two or 3 year wait for a consolised £50-60 PC port and then a “next gen” version shortly after.
It may seem cynical to some to suspect such an outcome but history increasingly tells us to expect the worst from the so-called triple-A games industry so you may be proved correct.
It’ll be groundhog day a la GTA V whereby the console peasantry once more prematurely mock PC games for not having the game and then us laughing in return when they all fall silent once the PC duly has the superior version.
I don’t really want to be right in this instance, but it ends up being proven with how short sighted these AAA pubs/studios have been over the past two decades.
It’s amazing to me that the console jockeys still talk s*** when this happens. They legitimately could talk about the lack of Red Dead Redemption, but when GTA V came out for PC I think I tore a damn muscle in my face from smiling at how angry they were that we got the superior version. It’s going to happen again with RDR2 when it comes to PC, and GTA:VI when that comes out.
Even if the game doesn’t come out at the same time, it’s fine, I’ll gladly wait for a superior version to come out in order to have another facial tear from smiling too much.
So very true. In addition to those things I also seem to recall some of the more rabid elements of the console peasantry having petitioned Rockstar to not bring GTA V to PC. That, for me, made their subsequent salty tears taste all the more sweet, haha!
I’ve learned to never underestimate the rank stupidity of some consumers, especially so console fanboys, when it comes to their purchasing decisions. Take Two, among others, are evidently well aware of said stupidity so, rightly or wrongly, they seek to exploit it.
Yeah it’s so pathetic how these retarded console drones act and think!
I can understand why Take Two act as they do, milk the game in every way possible, crappy way to do it but atleast we pc gamers get the superior version in the end; if GTA V is anything to go by 🙂
And Yes we can laugh in the end, and those hateful retarded peasants let em cry :.LOL!
Indeed. On the plus side, I’ve noticed a steep decline in the number of console brand fanboys posting dumb anti-PC videos on YouTube these past couple of years. Perhaps the likes of Rags,Top Hats & Champagne, BulletBarry and more have humiliated them one too many times and have scared them away, haha!
Alright thats good. Never been much on youtube, but lately have start dipping my toes over there; look at all upcoming horror games for e.x ..LOL!
Will check out those guys you mentioned mate!
LOL well said, and I will do the same – absolutely wait for the pc version!
I actually have a PS4 Pro that I use on my Sony 55 XE9005 Tv and have been playing God Of War 4, you know that game that every damn site says is the best game ever bla bla.
I have one thing to say; it’s definetly not. Okey the game is pretty good but nothing more. I have played all Sonys exclusives and can gladely be without them. All I see is a narrow as* FOV and that aweful 30 fps crap.
I will sell my ps4 and only game on pc from now on.
Have owned most of the consoles and as the older I get the more I hate the imperfections as they come with!
Pc all the way from now on. I say if the games not on pc, then their loss. Pc is the only thing worth gaming on, and maybe an Nintendo console to go with it 😉
Sad to say that even Nintendo is soon set to become a fully paid up member of the peasantry due to the impending launch of their own mandatory online gaming subscription fees for Switch.
I bought a Wii U as a secondary gaming platform and have hugely enjoyed Nintendo’s first-party games that, on the whole, ran at 60fps. Switch doesn’t interest me and any semblance of interest I may have had was killed stone dead by the announcement of Nintendo’s intention to mimic Sony and Microsoft’s peasantry.
Nintendo has been a part of the peasantry for years. They were among the first companies to capitalize on nostalgiaboys and start charging people a 2nd or 45th time for the same game, when they introduced virtual console on Wii. They’re still on that road, considering Switch has no back compatibility at all except Nintendo Select, and they are literally selling people cardboard as well as locked down crappy ROMboxes with only a few games on them. And they have N64 mini’s on the way.
I didn’t claim anything to the contrary. I stated that they’re “soon set to become a fully paid up member of the peasantry”. They’ve also done much worse than the thing you’ve mentioned such as having been prosecuted successfully for illegal price fixing.
I know, Nintendo is one of the worst actually LOL!
I mean, they milk it in every way possible, same crap like Donkey Kong on every system and the system themselfs are the weakest by much vs Sony / MS but they surely charge a hell of a lot for it :/
I actually will probably get the Switch but only as TeamXexuter will soon release a chip for it 😉
I dont mind saying it, I allways pirate console games thats frikking it. Pc is the only plattform that I support with my wallet, as I hate consoles pretty much, but like some exclusives. Well enought rambling here LOL!
Every game should be on pc, as one plattform is all we need.
Pc Rules thats just how it is 😉
Gamers who double dipped are idiots and shouldn’t get a ounce of our sympathy.
So important, that they never bothered to port RDR 1 over, elt alone announce 2 for PC.
T2 are greedy af. The only reason they say this, is because they want to take PC for a country mile ride. Where was T2 all these years when PC gaming was chugging along?.
It’s only important because it’s big, not because of what it can do and what it’s produced.
I’ll bet an amateur team could port the game for PC provided Rockstar don’t go C&E on their as$es.
There is a thing caller remake, remaster, etc. It would be still less expensive than a new AAA game. They just won’t bother because they don’t care
Not really, they have the art, VA, maps, storyline and quests already in place (half of the game) they would just need to implement it in a new engine.
Gaining money is not easy, who knew?
True but they aren’t know-it-all either. It could be a worthy risk.
It was made by a studio who never made a pc version. It used the first version of the rage engine. Max payne 3 launched with a later version of the rage engine than gta v on consoles. The pc version of gta v has the lastest verison of gta engine.
What’s stopping them from remaking RDR in a new engine, it would be less expensive than a new AAA game, there is plenty of solutions, they just don’t care
So that’s basically the point i made, they don’t have interest in putting a little bit of effort to gain more money. Now all their possible new fanbase will begin to play the game on a emulated software lmao
They could copy the GTAV formula and rerelase it to current gen PC and consoles. Worked pretty well the first time and people still play GTA5 multiplayer.
Well, considering Square’s PR claimed they “built FFXV from the ground up for PC” means that the same could have been done for RDR 1. Only if R8/T2 cared enough that is.
They can still do it now. They have more than enough money and the teams to work on it, but they don’t want to because they’ve seen the money GTA V makes.
It can be a waste to them, but it would win back kudos and earn some respect from the PC community. Going the Acti route of just porting D2 to PC isn’t something you should do going forward.
Imagine that TR goes back to being Sony exclusive, then we magically get TR 7, but not 6-5-4 etc.
Yeah, crap will sell, that’s a given at this point.
It’s obvious Take Two doesn’t want your money but you so what to give to them, shm, it’s sad. You have no idea if the game would sell, you just want it because console gamers have it.
Can you retype that again in English please.
“we can all safely assume that Red Dead Redemption 2 will come to the PC after its console release”Indeed. They profited handsomely from the peasantry having double-dipped and, in some cases, even triple-dipped with the three-stage staggered release of GTA V so are banking on a repeat performance with RDR2
Maybe i’ll piratedip like i did with GTAV
With next gen on the horizon, I smell the same greedy tactic they used for GTA V to be used for RDR2. Expect them to shove the console version out, a two or 3 year wait for a consolised £50-60 PC port and then a “next gen” version shortly after.
Around 30 Million GTA V PC sales and we still do not know the fate of Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC. It will probably come to PC and there is a small chance the first one will as well but right now statements like these from the CEO of Take-Two seem empty.
>Around 30 Million GTA V PC sales
It’s really that many? Damn!
Doubtful. SteamSpy had maybe 10 million owners at one point but it’s no longer reliable. And there’s no possible way that 20 million more people bought it directly through Rockstar. It definitely didn’t sell 30 million on PC.
They do this deliberately to get people that have a console and a PC to buy the game twice. They create an atmosphere of uncertainty when/ if the port will come to PC and that makes people who own both buy it on console to have it right away and then when the PC version rolls out they buy it for PC for the superior gaming experience.
Hogwash.. I’ll believe it when I see it.
tell EA that nhl for pc
They don’t really mean it.
Hogwash.. I’ll believe it when I see it.
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So important that I dont even see a release of red dead redemption lol, first gets royal console peasants then PC gamers get breadcrums
RDR 2 is being made by R* North this time around, not San Diego and R* North have ported everything to PC.
Bring us Red Dead Redemption Remastered (not a port of an 8 year old game) and then we can take you more seriously. Not only that but you could probably make a lot of money from it too.
Thankfully we are brute forcing it through RPCS3. F*ck Rockstar.
Damn right!
Ok, thanks for clarifying that PC hasnt been important before. Actions speak louder than words though so if no action then we can know for sure now that PC still isnt important.
You’re not supposed to think about what they are saying or use reasoning. Just accept it. That’s what Take Two is used to from console players. You would be an utter failure as a console fan ; )
Of course it is! It’s very important for their double-dipping strategy. Most ppl who has both PC and consoles will buy the game twice.
Take Two doesn’t give a damn mother f about PC.
If they did, they wouldn’t have Rockstar release their games with a mandatory third party DRM social club garbage. Or they would actually port their games to PC or pretend to have some sort of launch parity.
Or they wouldn’t let their games get removed from store like Manhunt 1 and 2, GTA1 and GTA2.
The fact that XCOM even released on PC – the only platform it should be on – is actualy amazing considering they developed it for consoles.
Take a look at their other PC releases, which are all trash except for Bioshock and Xcom. Bully – trash PS2 port. Bureau Declassified, lol. Midnight Club 2, lol. GTA4, absolutely broken trash for years after release. GTA:SA and VC were okay sure but ran like crap.
And let’s not discuss the intentionally staggered GTA 5 release so they could double or triple dip 360, XB1, and PC sales from the same customer, or PS3, PS4, PC from the same customer. Take Two will only ever get my money again for XCOM and BioShock games, and that’s because I can’t legally buy it from someone else thanks to them owning the franchises. Maybe Civ VII. In fact I will probably just buy those games through a grey market.
Oh and you know, the fact that after 7 years RDRed still isn’t on PC.
T2 doesn’t GAF about PC. They’re saying this because they checked their wallets and realized casuals on PC are giving them TONS of money. They want to keep that money coming so they’re going to be nice and say the right things.
screw em