Red Dead Redemption 2 will not be as successful as GTA V: Take Two

While all other major publishers are trying to get ahead of Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR 2) by launching their games earlier like Battlefield V and Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, the parent company of Rockstar Games, Take Two, says : fear too. "In an interview with Games Industry CEO Take Two, Strauss Zelnick pointed out that the Wild West-themed adventure would not be as successful as Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V) The latest Rockstar Games title Recently, it has been reported that GTA V has made about $ 6 billion since its release in September 2013. This means that GTA V has made more money than any other game. what a book, movie, disc, or video game ever published. "It's hard to expect everything to work as well as the most profitable entertainment product of all time," says Zelnick. not that this is a realistic expectation. Our hope, and also the conviction, is that Red Dead Redemption 2 will be an extraordinary creative product and that it will do incredibly well. Beyond that, I can not say – I do not know. "

This is not the first time that Zelnick has to temper the expectations surrounding the Red Dead Redemption 2. The 2008 GTA IV has shipped 25 million units in five years. GTA V shipping 80 million. The first Red Dead Redemption sold 15 million.

"I do not make badumptions like that," said Zelnick at the time. "What the team does, is try to make the best game possible, and if they succeed … Look, the reason, in my opinion, why GTA V sold 80m units, and GTA Online had another record year 3- and a year and a half ago since it was released, it's because it's the only generation of the previous generation, there has been a great deal. other titles that have come together around GTA from a qualitative point of view, which is clearly not the case at present.If you are over 17 years old and you have a new generation console, you have GTA, otherwise we would not have shipped 80m units, could another title be achieved? But we do not put it in the context of GTA. "

Release date Red Dead Redemption 2 is October 26 for PS4 and Xbox One, with a PC version in the works. We do not know if he would use Steam or not.

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