Take-Two‘s CEO, Strauss Zelnick, expressed that Rockstar‘s upcoming game is going to provide substantial results.

Seeking Alpha transcribed a part of Zelnick’s speech which was held during an investor’s call. He said the following: „The answer’s yes, we attribute the long success [of GTA V] to the fact that the title just captured the imagination of the public and set a standard not only for our company but for the industry of what a great video game ought to be. And the online experience is so incredibly robust. It allows you to do so many different things and it keeps people engaged on an ongoing basis. And then Rockstar Games continues to drop extraordinary, unexpected content into the game. So, you’re right; it defied our expectations. Part of it is when we first released Grand Theft Auto V, and we had Grand Theft Auto Online on its heels, we had never done anything like that. We Take-Two, we Rockstar Games, had never done anything like that. We didn’t know what to expect. And the cadence of its ongoing extraordinary success too is new to us.

Does it inform how we look at titles that come after? Well, naturally, it does. But the nature of our approach collectively, precisely, the nature of Rockstar Games approach, is never to be derivative and always to shatter expectations. And I believe that Red Dead Redemption 2 will shatter expectations and that the online experience also will be extraordinary, but unexpected. And my view is that all great hits are, by their very nature, unexpected. So that’s the goal. There is an expectation around the table, here, of course, there’s an expectation at Rockstar Games, and there is an expectation on the part of consumers. But our job is to exceed those expectations. And fingers crossed, that’s we’re all set out to do. And we couldn’t predict it and didn’t presume to concern Grand Theft Auto V, and we wouldn’t presume to with Red Dead Redemption 2. So, we’re just hard at work, doing the very best job that we can.”

So it seems Take-Two is optimistic, but they try to hide it a bit to not look like egoistic regarding Red Dead Redemption 2, which is out on October 26 on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Source: WCCFTech