Take-Two CEO Expects Red Dead Redemption 2 to do Very Well but Not as Well as GTA V

Red Dead Redemption 2 is Expected to do Well but Not as Well as GTA V

Red Dead Redemption was one of the most popular games on the last gen consoles. It did incredibly well and anyone that owned an Xbox 360 or PS 3 would have surely bought themselves Red Dead Redemption. On both the Xbox 360 and PS 3 Red Dead Redemption has a score of 95/100 on Metacritic, which is really high. Red Dead Redemption is a western action adventure set in 1911. The game follows John Marston, who is a former outlaw whose family has been taken hostage by the by the government. Rockstar announced Red Dead Redemption 2 in October 2016. The trailer made fans of the series extremely excited and the release date was in Fall 2017 which was later delayed to October 2018. 

Speaking to gameindustry.biz Take Two’s CEO Strauss Zelnick said that it doesn’t make sense to expect Red Dead Redemption 2 to reach the same sale numbers as GTA V but it is expected to do incredibly well. 

Zelnick said, “It’s hard to expect anything to perform as well as the most profitable entertainment product of all time, I don’t think that’s a realistic expectation. Our hope, and also belief, is that Red Dead Redemption 2 will be an extraordinary creative product and that it will do incredibly well. Beyond that I can’t say–I don’t think anyone can say. We have to release it and see what consumers think.”

Red Dead Redemption 2 is probably going to do incredibly well. If Rockstar does release Red Dead Redemption 2 for the PC it will sale a lot more copies then if they only release it for the Xbox One and PS 4. If Red Dead Redemption 2 doesn’t come out for PC Rockstar is locking millions from playing the game and also loosing on millions of Dollars that they could’ve earned from PC sales. 

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