Take-Two CEO asked about GTA remasters as Grand Theft Auto V ships 140m
“It’s a great and encouraging question”
Rockstar parent company Take-Two offered a non-committal response when asked about the potential for remastering older Grand Theft Auto games on Monday.
During the company’s third quarter earnings call, Take-Two revealed that Grand Theft Auto V has reached another major sales milestone.
“Grand Theft Auto V remains one of the most iconic titles ever released and it continues to exceed our expectations, having sold in over 140 million units,” Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said.
“In fact, in calendar 2020, more copies of Grand Theft Auto V were sold than in any other year except for 2013 when it first launched on PS3 and Xbox 360.”
During the Q&A session of the call, an analyst suggested it was likely that a significant portion of GTA V players might never have played earlier games in the series. Given the huge appetite for GTA content, he asked for Take-Two’s perspective on potential Grand Theft Auto remasters.
“It’s a great and encouraging question,” Zelnick responded. “I’m kind of inclined to leave it more as a statement than a question and any update on our release schedule will come from Rockstar Games.”
Rockstar is set to bring an “expanded and enhanced” version of GTA V to next-gen consoles in the second half of 2021, including a standalone version of Grand Theft Auto Online which will be free for PS5 owners for the first three months.
The studio recently said GTA Online’s future updates will cater to single-player gameplay as well as co-op activities in line with The Cayo Perico Heist.
Earlier on the Monday’s earnings call, Zelnick revealed that Red Dead Redemption 2 has now shipped 36 million units and NBA 2K21 has shipped eight million copies.
Take-Two also discussed its failed bid for Codemasters and said it will launch the second The Outer Worlds expansion, Murder on Eridanos, before April 2021.
