Take-Two CEO is Not Worried About Grand Theft Auto VI Performance on Xbox Series S - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 January 2025 / 3,197 Views
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick in the company's latest earnings report said he isn't worried about Rockstar getting Grand Theft Auto VI to run on the Xbox Series S.
"Look, we support the platforms where the consumers are for as long as they’re there, and we find a way to support platforms despite different levels of tech," said Zelnick (via VideoGamesChronicle) when asked about the Xbox Series S.
Zelnick added, "Our labels are really good at that. I’m not really worried. I’ve never worried about where hardware was going. And I’ve said this many times over the years because, first of all, I don’t worry about things over which I have zero control.
"Secondly, I believe in the audience. The audience is going to show up if you have great properties, and so we just have to make sure to be on an array of platforms."
Zelnick added PC is an important platform to release games on, despite the fact Grand Theft Auto VI has not been announced for PC.
"If one platform diminishes in value, there’s always another one," he said. "So we’re seeing great growth in PC right now, for example. And I have been able to view that open formats would continue to grow. PC is an open format.
"I do think PC will continue to be a more and more important part of the console business going forward, and that isn’t complicated for us to support at all. So the bottom line is we are selective about which platforms we support. We make the tech work when we can make it work as long as the audience is big enough to make that worthwhile."
Grand Theft Auto VI will launch for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S in Fall 2025.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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It doesn't mean it won't suck, he's just not worried about it.
Yeah. Like how people knew what kind of experience they were getting with impossible Switch ports like Witcher 3 or Doom Eternal. A compromised experience. Enthusiast gamers will get GTA6 on PS5, PS5 Pro, and Series X whereas budget gamers will get it on Series S because it's the cheapest way to play GTA6 and they just wanna play it.
Don't be so sure of that. Look at PS4 sales of Miles Morales or Horizon FW, they were far worse than PS5 version. People don't want inferior products/versions of products
This is GTA. The same franchise that had over $1 billion in sales in its first 3 days of a new release 11 years ago and to this day the biggest entertainment launch (not just gaming) in history. Something the likes of Miles Morales or HFW can only dream of. People are gonna want GTA6 on whatever they can afford.
RDR2 ran at 30fps on last gen consoles (including the VCR) and still doesn't have a current-gen patch and runs just fine. And is still one of the best looking games out there. Rockstar is very good at optimizing their games when it comes to new releases.
Oh yeah, Rockstar will milk GTA 6 on however many platforms they can for as long as they can. Hate that we still have another year to find out what records it's gonna break.
Then why didn't the Playstation 4 Pro outsell the Playstation 4 if that were the case?
I was talking about software, not hardware
Fair point. Then why don't PC games always outsell Playstation?
Yeah, what I said is not always 100% correct. The difference in price to PS5 to Gaming PC is much bigger than the difference in price to XBSS to PS5. Price/performance ratio wise I think people will see that the PS5 digital is a much better experience than XBSS. That's the point I'm trying to make.
Well, it probably helps if you can pour as much money as needed into ensuring performance is sufficiently good. Another thing that probably helps is not doing anything too revolutionary so scaling the visuals is all that's needed and not necessarily all that hard either - and this isn't downplaying the game, as not every game needs to be revolutionary either.
What's this guy suppose to say? "Yes, it's going to run poorly, and we know it. Please buy it anyway."? Not saying that it will or wont, just pointing out the obvious that CEOs aren't typically in the habit of saying anything negative about their own companies.
How many Series S games have been objectively bad at this point? Few if any.
This was developed as a ps4 level game, since they skipped last gen gta. People confused thinking the game hasnt been in development for long and that its made for current gen systems ground up. It will look and run great on series s.
How will it look and run on PS4 when they eventually get to it? There will be plenty of gamers on last gen even by holiday 2026.
If it was first developed as a PS4 game, why isn't it on PS4?
Because they've been milking the cash cow gta5 . It's been making so much money
I know it has but what does that have to do with GTA6 first being a "PS4 game", but then not coming to PS4?
No... it didn't enter full production until RDR2 released
It was always planned as a PS5/SeriesXS game
Where did you learn it started as a ps5 game? Early development started long before the release of rdr2
Who cares? It will be rereleased on PS6 and XBox blablabla anyway and everybody will buy it a second time on those consoles. Just like what happened with GTA5.
Rockstar's games have a looong history of performance issues... and they still sell anyways
Of course he isn't worried lol
When its comes to console optimization. Rockstar is literally the best. What are you on about?
RDR2 still stuck at 30 fps
GTA5 ran in the 20s when it released on 360 and PS3... It only ran good on PS4/One because it was a last gen game
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