Take-Two editors are probably fully aware that Grand Theft Auto 5 cannot be completed. In the last quarter the game sold a million units, which would mean an extreme race for many more games, but for the nine-year GTA it’s a clear sign that the EU is sure to catch up with the Germans. Overall, 170 million copies have been sold since its release and I’ll take a look at the last word.
GTA 5 was once also available for free on the Epic Games Store, and for practically a long time it was only available online. This was also reflected in Take-Two’s overall financial results, which paid less than expected in the last quarter. In response to this revelation, the company’s shares have fallen by more than 15% by the end of this week and continue to decline.
The company has adjusted its financial assumptions for the next year. Take-Two publisher Strauss Zelnick attributed these failures to the postponement of the games and thus to the change in the company’s orientation towards mobile games following the acquisition of the company Zynga. They also had to be postponed, according to Zelnick, it’s the end of the day, as he’d rather see a well-rounded match than fail.
Let’s go back to GTA, which is essentially the flagship of this company. The game from the Rockstar Games studio is not really keeping up with the times, even after the relatively recent next-gen release (n try here). It is therefore particularly advisable to find a successor, on which intense work is underway. Let’s take the Rockstar pmo, which I confirmedbut even after a short time when a hacker stole data from Rockstar servers.
First, not long ago he drank in the dark during the presentation of the financial results: we have no information that the materials were stolen and the situation did not affect the development of the game. It is nothing but a big disappointment for us and we are now more attentive to the security of our data, Zelnick said.
Let us remember that the 17-year-old hacker, who was not behind anyone, was immediately caught. The teenager worked with the Lapsus group, which leaked information about GTA 6 to companies like Uber and Nvidia before anyone else. During the first court hearing, the hacker pleaded innocent. The date of the next court hearing is not yet known.
As for the next installment of the GTA series, according to the study, it is not very likely that new information will be heard during the last weeks of this year. Considering that the game is still in production and will be released soon, we will see the new GTA on the market between 2024 and 2025 at the earliest.
