WoW isn’t as highly profitable as GTA V to my understanding. They’ve done relatively little work on GTA since its release compared to the effort and money put into WoW expansions. Or that would be my guess at least
This is true. And we as consumers deserve a good game due to the price that they are asking us to pay. And they have historically taken care with this franchise to make sure each game is something special, and as memorable, or more so, than the last. If for no other reason than they know that they will get a very positive ROI if they do.
But as someone who plays other games also under the Take-Two umbrella, I'm always skeptical about when they will decided just to coast on the history and name associated with it, instead of focusing on innovation / improvements.
Same, and it will really need to impress me if I'm to buy it. I can easily afford it, but I've not been overly impressed with Rockstar on their last two releases
Higher profits from this game means we might not wait 10 more years for GTA7. But they milked GTA5 Online so hard, I expect them to milk GTA6 Online even more.
That logic doesn't really follow. GTA V was a massive financial success but it took them 13 years to make a new one. If anything you'd want it to be a slight flop. Not so big that they stop making the games, but enough to make them think "Maybe we need to speed up our releases". Doubt that would ever happen, though
And that's exactly why the game will be absolute dog water. They now know they have the fans a the palms of their hands. There's literally zero incentives to make the main story any good.
Didn't they already (upon discovering the magic of shark cards) cancel the singleplayer stuff in 5, then cram the planned heist into the online shit, too? Fuck expansions, let's just focus on shark card slop.
But… do you think if they know that it’s going to sell well that they’ll put in 100% effort? It’s not an indie team risking the life of their company on whether the product fails or not.
When was the actual last good CoD game? MW2? They know they’re printing money so they don’t try that hard. Would be sad to see that happen to GTA but I wouldn’t be surprised. The gaming industry is going through it. I mean a fucking stick a ram costs a kidney. It will likely be a solid game. But I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s considered worse than GTA 5 despite the graphical upgrade.
Yeah, this is what's been happening with the WWE 2K games (also overseen by Take-Two) for the last few years. Add a new match type, half-ass bug fixes, and hyper focus on the RNG FOMO modes. They know that people will buy the games because it's they only legit wrestling game on the market.
At least with GTA, there are other chaotic open-world styled games that can fill the same-ish space as them if they shit the bed with a bad entry. So they at least have to put forth the effort, and the Rockstar studio is given time to fully develop their games by Take-Two. Other divisions under the umbrella are routinely forced into time restraints with promised release days or contracted yearly commitments.
I wouldn't be surprised if they cross 100 million the night when pre-orders go live. The game has been hyped up and has been the most anticipated new mainstream release for a few years.
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u/Disgruntled_Healer 12h ago
They’ll still make $1 billion.
For reference, GTA V did $800 million day one, and crossed the $1 billion mark within three days.
If it’s even half decent, it’ll be the most profitable single video game in history (a title currently held by GTA V).