The CEO of the company is asked about the attendance of remasters and the role they play in the company. They trust their products.
Take-Two Interactive relies on the existence of remasters of previous video games in its catalog. The company responsible for Rockstar Games (GTA, Red Dead Redemption) and 2K Games (NBA 2K, Mafia) plans to continue on this path and offer, as they did in 2020 with the Mafia trilogy, experiences from the past adapted to the present. Next is GTA 5.
Strauss Zelnick, during the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference held this Wednesday (via VGC), has been asked about this remastering policy, which he does not consider a pillar for his commercial strategy, but one more element that adds quality to his Catalogue. “Remastering has always been part of the strategy”, he begins by explaining “We have been doing it differently compared to the competition: not only do we change the games, but we really take the time necessary to do the best job possible and that the title is different for that new release; for the new technology in which we are launching it ”, he adds.
Mafia: Definitive Edition, one of the best remakes of recent times according to FreeGameTips.
For this reason they improve “the technology, the visual aspects and we improve the performance. That’s why I think our remastered titles generally perform so well, “he says. After the reception of the remastered Mafia trilogy, it is the turn of Grand Theft Auto, its third generation, which he describes as “incredible2.
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GTA V will have remastering on PS5 and Xbox Series X | S in 2021
After selling 140 million units since its original release on PS3 and Xbox 360 back in September 2013, the Grand Theft Auto V phenomenon continues with its third foray into a generation of consoles in 2021. It will be in the second half of the year when it is scheduled GTA 5 remastering to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X | S hits stores with “technical, visual and performance enhancements that will take full advantage of the technological benefits this hardware offers,” Rockstar said.
GTA 5 has sold more than a million units in physical format only in Spain.
Additionally, PS Plus players will receive GTA $ 1,000,000 for each month they play GTA Online on PS4 until its release on PS5. Regarding GTA Online, Rockstar will launch a new independent version of this multiplayer aspect; Free exclusively for PS5 players for the first three months. Red Dead Online, the multiplayer of Red Dead Redemption 2, has also been sold separately for a few months. We do not know the price that GTA Online will have separately.
During the last quarter of 2020 (Q3 / 2021), the third quarter of this fiscal year, Take-Two reported revenues of $ 860.9 million, a decrease of 7.5% in turnover, but an increase 12% in profits thanks to the performance of your video games already available. Especially, the increase in digital volume, whose revenues accounted for 85% of the total.
