Take-Two CEO: Red Dead Redemption 2 Sale as well as GTA 5 is not a "realistic expectation"

Red Dead Redemption 2 could engender feverish excitement and this could be the most anticipated game of the year, at least on the platforms where it has a release date, but Take-Two is not heading towards the launch of the game Grand Theft Auto 5 levels of success.

With sales reaching nearly 100 million, Grand Theft Auto 5 is without a doubt one of the best selling games of all time, only surpassed by Tetris and Minecraft. Although he was released in 2015 on PC, he is regularly on the list of best sellers of Steam. So it's no surprise that Take-Two does not predict that the latest Rockstar news will prevail.

"It's hard to expect anything as powerful as the most profitable entertainment product of all time," Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick told GamesIndustry.biz. "I do not think this is a realistic expectation, our hope, and also our belief, 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 do not know "

Zelnick is obviously still confident about the misadventure of the cowboys, no doubt realizing that he could probably sell a few million stetsons dirty and soiled with sweat if there were any. Red Dead Redemption 2 on them People are hungry for a dying Wild West return The original Red Dead Redemption was not left out in the sales department, about 15 million copies, and this was without the benefit of a PC version.

While a Rockstar version is reason enough for even big publishers to be a little nervous about the idea of ​​launching their games at the same time, Zelnick still sees them as competitors who must They may be scared of Red Dead Redemption 2, but Zelnick believes that "arrogance is the enemy of continued success."

"We do not believe in our success as long as we will not have delivered it. to have very powerful, intelligent and competent competitors who put good products on the market and we have to win – that means we have to work harder than the next.

Red Dead Redemption 2 will be released on consoles on October 26. The PC version has not been announced yet. A LinkedIn profile recently listed the PC version, but there is still no official word from Rockstar or Take-Two.