While the fact that GTA 5 broke the 70 million shipped copies mark was the main takeaway from the recent Take-Two quarterly earnings report, there was more substance in that call that might interest fans. Namely, one investor voiced a worry that seemed to echo that of the community — how will Rockstar continue to support Online if they're working on RDR2?
Following the announcement of Red Dead Redemption 2, many players assumed that the fate of GTA Online was sealed. With such a big project on their plate, most fans thought that the company would just drop content support for the multiplayer hit altogether. Now, we ourselves ran a story recently detailing why this won't happen, but a single article won't quell the collective voice of a whole community.
It seems one of Take-Two's investors had similar qualms, and presented them to the company's CEO, Strauss Zelnick, who was on the other end of the line. Like us, Mr. Zelnick assured the investor that the studio is more than capable of spinning both plates at once.
Rockstar Games has enormous bandwidth to work on multiplicity of opportunities simultaneously, and I think we all can be really proud of their ability to do so and to delight consumers while delivering experiences that critics resoundingly rate as perfect or very nearly perfect. So we’ve an enormous amount of confidence in that label and their performance, and we’re incredibly excited about what is to come.
Now, we've incorporated the same argument into our own article. Rockstar Games is a massive, multinational developer with multiple studios, much like other heavy hitters. Consider Ubisoft or EA Games. Granted, they are their own publishers, but like Rockstar, they have many studios that work on their games, and they push out multiple AAA titles per year.
