In advance of publisher Take-Two's third-quarter fiscal report this Thursday, Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter has noted that the company's U.S. retail sales appear to be tracking ahead by 250% thanks mostly to Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption, which he believes has hit 6.5 million units sold (5 million was the last confirmed number by Take-Two).
While Red Dead Redemption has been fantastic for Take-Two, it's been another story for Mafia II.
But he's still firm that physical games aren't going away.
Gamers have the power and they are the Ives who will decide if physical stays or not.. physical is here to stay, but good that a guy like this confirms
Fking word. Physical is the key. People would be surprised because the misconceptions out there but there's a sh ton of us that still prefer this route
One high end console has always been a benefit. The other is no longer a necessity.
Only competition there ever was, was when one launched a year to a year and a half early. Based on this generation, the other would have to launch 2 to 4 years early just to compete. Because buying a huge part of the industry, having a multiple game sleep mode, cheaper in price, smaller form factor, supposedly having better BC and a day one subscription service, has still resulted in another huge ass kicking.
Yay for physical Take Two.
I wouldn't really call it competing when a company is dead last in sales when compared to the rival company. I will always stick around for physical copies of games. Moment games go all digital is the day I bring the SNES and Genesis out of hibernation and just stick to retro.
Take-Two announced its financial results for Q3 of the fiscal year on top of an update to sales figures of Grand Theft Auto V, Red Dead Redemption 2, and more.
So 2.47% of the global population have a copy of gta v no wonder they don't want to release vi there's still so many people who haven't brought v
Obvious sarcasm here
Ha ha, we should probably count that a lot of people have 2 or 3 copies by now, for different platforms.
To think that 5mil sold is considered a huge success for any game in general, and 10 is amazing. I cannot believe people are still buying this.
I keep saying that’s why the 7th generation was the most loved because of gta5 and Skyrim.
Well hopefully millions went to gta 6 singleplayer mode to make it extra epic but knowing rockstar nowadays there won't be a full support for singleplayer, mainly online will be the focus i bet but I hope atleast theres plenty to do in the open world and not just look good with little to nothing to do, after gta 6 ain no tellin when we will get another rockstar title even tho the mfs sucked in millions from red dead 2 as well I miss when we got more than 1 game a gen from them they always delivered, so many key staff members left not even just the well known names
With E3 starting next week, 2K Games revealed the biggest E3 line up they have for the year
Only game iam waiting for is for mafia 2 nothing else intrest me well only Metal gear solid peace walkers but ill get that soon
nice. waiting to see what mafia 2 and spec ops the line has too offer. not into rts games, so civ 5 not for me, and not too familiar with x-com series.
i hope take two start being more carful, because with all these delays lead to cancellations which leads to no gaming being sold which ends up at becoming bankrupt
Most analysts don't have kind words for Take-Two's management. While they have some hits from time to time, the publisher is still very reliant on GTA.
Well there's LA Noire, Max Payne 3 and Agent coming next year so IF GTA V doesn't come out until 2012 it doesn't matter because those 3 games should sell very well.
I hope GTA V is announced soon
Alot of time and effort has gone into creating Empire City and it's inhabitants, the story was tremendous and helped along by the brilliant Voice-Acting and varying characteristics, the game has a diverse amount of missions which many games don't offer these days, from Robbing Stores to Illegally selling cigarettes off the back of a truck, Assassinations to disposing of bodies, being a getaway driver to stealing from Federal Offices (Stealth Missions). The game is astonishing and I highly recommend people to purchase the title, and I truly wish for the game to be a success in the sales, I purchased the game Day one and after reaching the end, I was left craving more, a continuation, with more DLC on the way tommorow I will be temporarily satisfied however the ending cries out for continuation, if anything, I hope the game does well so I'll get a continuation, a sequel. The city is designed, the engine is done and at the end of the game we are left not able to freely roam but have to load previous chapters, this can't be a coincidence, 2K must have intentions for doing so, hopefully those intentions are to continue Vito's journey through the gritty world of organised crime... I Hope so.