Take-Two to Ship 'Several Groundbreaking Titles' in Fiscal Year 2025 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 17 May 2023 / 4,026 Views
Two-Two Interactive in its latest earnings report announced it plans to launch "several groundbreaking titles" in fiscal year 2025, which runs from April 2024 to March 2025. The publisher believes these new titles "will set new standards" in the gaming industry.
"Fiscal 2025 is a highly anticipated year for our company," reads the earnings report. "For the last several years, we have been preparing our business to release an incredibly robust pipeline of projects that we believe will take our company to even greater levels of success.
"In fiscal 2025, we expect to enter this new era by launching several groundbreaking titles that we believe will set new standards in our industry and enable us to achieve over $8 billion in net bookings and over $1 billion in adjusted unrestricted operating cash flow. We expect to sustain this momentum by delivering additional growth in our operating results in fiscal 2026 and beyond."
While it wasn't specifically stated it is entirely possible that Rockstar and Take-Two plan on releasing Grand Theft Auto VI in fiscal year 2025.
Take-Two's net bookings in the past fiscal year was $5.3 billion, according to IGN. This was a new record for the company that was helped by Zynga, which was acquired last year. Before this acquisition the net bookings were around $3 billion.
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Are these several "ground-breaking "titles going to feature online play and MT's?, because that's what I imagine they mean by ground-breaking, especially in T2's mind.
The way I read it is, we haven't really released anything for several years and still won't release anything for 2 years, but in 2025 we may finally have something in the market. And looking at their sales I can understand why they don't care.
So appart from GTA 6, what else could it be? XCOM 3 maybe?
Borderlands 4 and Bioshock 4 would be my guess. Borderlands 4 and Bioshock 4 should definitely both be ready to release by the April 2024-March 2025 fiscal year. Borderlands 3 released in 2019, meaning the 4th game will have 5 years of development as a fiscal 2025 release. Meanwhile Bioshock 4 began development in 2018, so it will have 6 years of development as a fiscal 2025 release.
Right, I forgot that Bioshock 4 is actually in development.
So $5.3 Billion this past fiscal year was their all-time record, and they plan $8 Billion in FY2025. Yeah a Holiday 2024 launch for GTA VI is looking like their current plan. Don't know how they could meet those colossal numbers without it. Whether it meets that date or not is another matter but it seems that's the date they are looking at.
PS5 and Xbox series peak year will be the year GTA6 releases. I'm guessing holiday 2025
Unless Microsoft buys Take 2 before that, than it would only be Xbox peak year.
Considering the concessions that Xbox has had to make on the ABK deal, guaranteeing CoD stays multiplat for 10 years among them, it's a safe bet that regulators would require a similar concession on GTA should Xbox choose to give up on ABK and go after Take-Two instead.
Regulators are mostly only concerned for the cloud gaming part not the console part
It's a travesty what gta has become.
eh, maybe. The online crap is annoying and lack of actual DLC for GTA5 really does suck. But they haven't actually released a bad mainline game yet, it's just been a stupidly long wait. GTA6 could still be amazing.
I just see GTA VI being another staple of V, in that you'll get that cinematic story that lasts a few hours, and the rest will be online focused with player economies that can be bought via shark cards, filled with cheaters that only T2 will care about dismantling if it so much as harms their shark card economy.
Like yeah, it goes without saying that they haven't released a bad mainline game, but their focus on MT's and online economies that are largely driven by diming players has been bad for years, and is hardly tackled by anyone, ppl just buy into it.
I dunno man, I've seen all the GTA stories, the first 3 and part of 5 was good, but 5 really had some of the wackiest heists and missions that were bordering so hard on Saints Row levels of whacky, I don't see there being a wealth of content for 5 that isn't trying to copy SR, but also isn't being mundane and typical for GTA either.
I just feel like the SP has been put to the backburner with little content outside of it's baseline story, especially when you look at the MP content that helped push shark card purchases and buying weapons to try dealing with cheaters or those buying into the game world economy. I personally don't think a good SP story=bad practices and diming is okay.
I'd rather have a good GTA game, a tacked on MP and expansions for both that you pay for once and there is no need to cram in shark cards. GTA has banked on it's brand to sell and make money, it can do so without the bad practices associated with it.
