Hundreds of thousands of avid gamers appear completely ravenous about getting their fingers – or, heck, even simply their eyeballs – on GTA 6. However Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, who leads the dad or mum firm of Rockstar Video games, simply admitted he hadn’t touched the open-world behemoth a lot because he is merely not a gamer. Forgive him, although, his causes are admirable.
When requested if he is performed GTA 6 in an interview with CNBC, Zelnick merely mentioned “I am not a gamer, not a lot – I don’t play video video games, I am not the shopper-in-chief.”
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He later went on to clarify that he nonetheless shares his “opinions fairly brazenly” with the builders beneath Take-Two’s umbrella, which additionally owns 2K Video games like Borderlands 4, however he believes additionally being a shopper would not be in the firm’s finest curiosity.
“My role is to appeal to, retain, and inspire the finest expertise in the enterprise, after which getting out of their approach,” he defined, which sounds extra best than a swimsuit making sweeping gameplay selections, regardless of not figuring out something about video games themselves.
“I believe being the shopper-in-chief in the leisure enterprise as the CEO is probably a mistake,” he added. “I wasn’t the shopper-in-chief in the film enterprise or the tv enterprise or the music enterprise, regardless that I definitely may learn a script and I undoubtedly love music… however that is not my role.”
Earlier in that chat, Zelnick made some lofty feedback about the incoming behemoth: “Rockstar Video games is attempting to create the smartest thing anybody’s ever seen in entertainmen.”
One other GTA 6 delay is unlikely as “traditionally” Rockstar is “excellent” at assembly stable launch dates like with Crimson Useless Redemption 2, says Take-Two boss
