Take-Two Plays Coy About Next Grand Theft Auto

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Take-Two Plays Coy About Next Grand Theft Auto

Take Two will announce Grand Theft Auto V (and all the other games you're waiting for) when it darn well pleases, thank you very much.

A lot of gamers have been asking when Take-Two plans to release the next Grand Theft Auto. Well, guess what? The publisher's CEO Strauss Zelnick recently was asked this question and ... it turns out he totally blew off the query. That said, he's promising gamers that his company has a lot of good stuff coming down the line, including games the public doesn't know about yet.

On Monday night, Take-Two reported the first quarter results for the 2012 financial year. During the subsequent question-and-answer session, Zelnick was asked by an analyst how the publisher planned to make a profit without Grand Theft Auto game to be released during the 2013 fiscal year (which is between April 2012 and March 2013).

According to Eurogamer, Zelnick had this to say:

"Looking ahead to fiscal year 2013, we have already announced three exciting new releases: <a href=http://www.amazon.com/BioShock-Infinite-Xbox-360/dp/B003O6EB70/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312960877&sr=8-1>BioShock Infinite, <a href=http://www.amazon.com/Spec-Ops-Line-Playstation-3/dp/B00320JAWY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312961143&sr=8-1>Spec Ops: The Line, and Borderlands 2, and we have a very strong pipeline of yet-to-be announced titles in development."

"Zelnick batted the question away, pointing to Irrational's <a href=http://www.amazon.com/BioShock-Infinite-Xbox-360/dp/B003O6EB70/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312960877&sr=8-1>BioShock Infinite> and Gearbox's Borderlands 2."

<a href=http://www.gtanet.com/news/single.php?id=4429>According to GTANet, Take-Two is hoping to earn a $2 per-share net income during the next financial year; the last time that sort of fiscal event happened was when the publisher released Grand Theft Auto IV. So, at the moment, Zelnick's comments can't really even be considered a rumored hint that Grand Theft Auto V is coming. That said, the nebulous circumstantial evidence is starting to line up ...

Source: <a href=http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-08-09-wheres-grand-theft-auto-5>Eurogamer

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[John the Gamer]

Will it be set in London? Lol.

But I really hope that the next GTA game will go back to the slightly less gritty ways of Vice-City and such. I just didn't like GTAIV all that much. It wasn't bad, it was just not as fun.

 

[Andronicus]

Booooooriiiing.

Make something new.

 

[Booze Zombie]

I hope GTA V doesn't follow the formula. "Yay, new place! Arrrgh, an enemy I could've shot 20 times in the face who knocks me over in a cutscene and runs away whilst taunting me, I'd better spend the next 3 days chasing him and meeting a colourful cast of characters who are comically mal-adjusted to life."

 

[Stalydan]

I'm kind of hoping for a GTA where the player starts of as a pretty nice guy. How many of them are "Already a criminal, something went wrong and that's why you're here"? It makes you want to know why they are like that sometimes, thought granted GTA IV did give you a backstory to Niko and why he's not so friendly but I think what would help would be if you got see that stuff rather than the odd line about his country or his family.

It'd be different anyway

 

[Andronicus]

Booooooriiiing.

Make something new.

Did you even read the article? That's exactly what they're doing...

They never said they were releasing a new IP. Perhaps I spoke too early, but the only games that they have announced are just sequels, although Bioshock's status as a sequel is debatable, I must concede.

Why? Did you see something original in the article that I missed?

 

[Sunflower Samurai]

Will it be set in London? Lol.

But I really hope that the next GTA game will go back to the slightly less gritty ways of Vice-City and such. I just didn't like GTAIV all that much. It wasn't bad, it was just not as fun.

I believe that they said something along the lines of, they don't want a GTA set in somewhere that isn't America because then it wouldn't feel the same to them. I don't have the source on me though, but I remember reading it recently.

Also, personally I want more of what GTA IV (and episodes) was. If you want old school GTA wackiness look into Saints Row.

 

[samsonguy920]

Much as I would love to hear news about GTA V, I like this guy's attitude of

Take Two will announce Grand Theft Auto V (and all the other games you're waiting for) when it darn well pleases, thank you very much.

Suggests to me that Take Two is more about quality in the games as opposed to rolling them out as if on an assembly line, like, say, Activision.

I'm kind of hoping for a GTA where the player starts of as a pretty nice guy. How many of them are "Already a criminal, something went wrong and that's why you're here"? It makes you want to know why they are like that sometimes, thought granted GTA IV did give you a backstory to Niko and why he's not so friendly but I think what would help would be if you got see that stuff rather than the odd line about his country or his family.

It'd be different anyway

Ala Law Abiding Citizen. I can dig it.

 

[minimacker]

If I may say, "When it's done, like a boss."

Ah, I can live with this. The GTA games are great for the way every numbered GTA game it is a new "generation". I just hope they damn well make an equivalent to Vice City.

Nothing has been able to surpass that one, so far.

 

[mariofan1000]

I like that choice.

 

[UnravThreads]

Suggests to me that Take Two is more about quality in the games as opposed to rolling them out as if on an assembly line, like, say, Activision.

I disagree.

Borderlands - Shitty port.
GTA IV - Very shitty port.
BioShock 2 - Technically a mess; Too many developers in one project.
Civilization V - Overpriced DLC released infrequently.
Duke Nukem Forever - Need I explain?

Their ports are middling at best, and their post-release support is horrific.

 

[mjc0961]

Take all the time you need and put it out when it's done and a quality product, Take Two. No need to rush this.

Suggests to me that Take Two is more about quality in the games as opposed to rolling them out as if on an assembly line, like, say, Activision.

I disagree.

Borderlands - Shitty port.
GTA IV - Very shitty port.
BioShock 2 - Technically a mess; Too many developers in one project.
Civilization V - Overpriced DLC released infrequently.
Duke Nukem Forever - Need I explain?

Their ports are middling at best, and their post-release support is horrific.

PC gamer, right? I've heard very bad things about Borderlands and GTA IV on PC.

 

[Low Key]

They need to make a game set in the midwest like a Chicago style or something. Libery City has been done to death and GTA:SA is untouchable in as far as the series goes. A Euro or Sourh American GTA would be cool, but it would have to be supplemented by something going on in the states. That's just how GTA rolls.

 

[putowtin]

he be doing what he wants, don't care what anyone thinks!

In the mean time everyones off to play Saint's Row!

 

[UnravThreads]

PC gamer, right? I've heard very bad things about Borderlands and GTA IV on PC.

An embittered one at that, but yes.

 

[MajorDolphin]

It's time. GTA MMO. Not likely to happen unless we accept old school graphics.

It sounds like they're too good for the foundation their house is built on.

 

[GaltarDude1138]

I'm kind of hoping for a GTA where the player starts of as a pretty nice guy.

Yeah, I was wondering, how Yahtzee always says that the protagonists in GTA have to be crazy already, that way we justify the crazy shit we make them do, like jacking helicopters and such.

So I think it WOULD be interesting to see the descent into that kind of person, from a character development perspective.