Take-Two chairman and CEO Strauss Zelnick has stated that he’s “not fearful” in regards to the potential efficiency points associated to Grand Theft Auto 6 on Xbox Collection S.
Talking as a part of Take-Two’s newest earnings, the CEO stated that he’s by no means been involved with any potential {hardware} points.
“Look, we assist the platforms the place the customers are for so long as they’re there, and we discover a strategy to assist platforms regardless of totally different ranges of tech,” stated Zelnick when requested in regards to the Xbox Collection S.
Microsoft mandates that any sport launched on Xbox Collection X even be launched on Xbox Collection S, the lower-powered console.
“Our labels are actually good at that,” Zelnick added. “I’m probably not fearful. I’ve by no means fearful about the place {hardware} was going. And I’ve stated this many occasions over time as a result of, to begin with, I don’t fear about issues over which I’ve zero management.
“Secondly, I imagine within the viewers. The viewers goes to point out up in case you have nice properties, and so we simply have to verify to be on an array of platforms.”
The primary Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer was launched in December 2023, confirming a deliberate 2025 launch date. Updating its monetary steering in Might, Take-Two narrowed the sport’s launch window from calendar 2025 to the autumn of subsequent 12 months.
In its newest earnings outcomes printed on Wednesday, Take-Two reiterated the intention of its Rockstar model to launch GTA 6 in Fall 2025, as beforehand introduced.
Zelnick additionally emphasised the significance of publishing on PC to the corporate. GTA 6 is just not presently introduced for PC.
“If one platform diminishes in worth, there’s at all times one other one,” he defined. “So we’re seeing nice progress in PC proper now, for instance. And I’ve been in a position to view that open codecs would proceed to develop. PC is an open format.
“I do suppose PC will proceed to be a increasingly more necessary a part of the console enterprise going ahead, and that isn’t sophisticated for us to assist in any respect. So the underside line is we’re selective about which platforms we assist. We make the tech work once we could make it work so long as the viewers is large enough to make that worthwhile.”
