Take-Two Has 93 Games Planned by March 2025 Including 15 Ports to New Platforms; Next-Gen Discussed

Today, during Take-Two Interactive Software's financial conference call, chief executive officer Strauss Zelnick talked about the next-generation of consoles, while president Karl Slatoff gave a broad idea of the games in development.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Interesting

[DJStotty]

Can not possibly be all AAA, i am guessing quite a few mobile/low budget games with a few AAA thrown in.

[Abriael]

They gave a pretty specific breakdown. No, they're not all AAA and there's some mobile.

[SaveFerris]

So we can expect next-gen ports of GTA5 and RDR2 then?

[MrSugarholic]

They better not, with backwards compatibility being a thing across both PlayStation and Xbox.

[SaveFerris]

Ah. Forgot about that. Would that also include the other GTA games?

[umair_s51]

GTA IV and RDR ports would not hurt.

[TheColbertinator]

Certainly. As we've seen people will pay full price for last gen remasters. The next gen will be no different.

[Kabaneri]

GTA5 was already ported from last gen. That would be a triple dip for R*.

[vivid83]

Triple dip

[CrimsonWing69]

Man, I was hoping we wouldn’t be seeing last-gen games on next-gen consoles since there’s backwards compatibility.

[JEECE]

It depends on what degree of "boost" the next gen systems have when playing games in BC, if any. For instance, you can play BioShock in BC on a XONE S, and there may be some small advantage compared to 360, but it won't be like playing the remastered version from the collection. Same thing with PS3 games; I mean, you can't do true BC there, but even if you could play the last of us on PS4 as it was on PS3, the remastered version is significantly smoother, etc.

Also, from a publisher's perspective, they probably know that there are certain people who won't buy old games for their new system, even if it can play them. So if they release an updated version of Borderlands 3 in early 2021, some people will buy that who would not have simply bought the old version. Heck, if you get on any story about Cyberpunk 2077 on here, there will be people who insist they are going to wait for the next gen version of the game to be made (and it's not a cross gen simultaneous release, they've already confirmed this).

[umair_s51]

I don't mind remasters as long as PS5 is still backwards compatible.

[Mr_Writer85]

@crimsonwing69

It will soon be nipped in the bud if the sales aren't there.

Which you hope they won't be.

[DaniMacYo]

I don’t suppose they would ever reconsider AGENT. I was looking forward to that the idea and setting seemed really intriguing to me. I’m hoping they actually decide to revisit that concept and make that game a reality.

[strayanalog]

67 mobile games, 15 ports, 10 sports games, 1 Grand Theft Auto VI. So, basically, 26 games. Prove me wrong, Take-Two.

[Abriael]

reading the article may help.

[strayanalog]

So would you if you hurried up in making that critical thinking business, but reading is overrated. At least that's what The Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too taught me.

[Abriael]

@strayanalog: I'm very interested to hear how "72 are planned for consoles, PC, and/or streaming (including 7 that will also come to mobile), and 21 are dedicated to mobile." can turn into 67 mobile games by virtue of "critical thinking."

Do tell.

[ApocalypseShadow]

Throw in some ports of L.A. Noire, GTA and Red Dead to VR and I'm good.