Disappointed by the possibility of no new hardware from Sony or Microsoft at E3 next week? Don’t be, says Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick.
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick AI can help mundane tasks in creating games but human creativity will always be needed.
Well there’s a saying about 100 monkeys with typewriters in a room, give it a few years and you’ll see the miracles that can be done with 100 Ai in a server 🤣
Great interview from a humbly powerful man! I’m sad he didn’t speak about RDR at anytime, it’s like it’s not big enough for them
Bit of a stretch to say "human creativity" will always be needed, key word being always. Sure it makes a big difference right now, if you just let it do whatever with little/no effort you end up with lazily put together slop..
It's still early days, but tools to help develop games quicker is obviously a good thing.
GTA 6 publisher CEO Strauss Zelnick has fought back against TV media claiming the game will incite violence in real life.
Didn’t society try to blame rock n’ roll and comics on this before games? It’s just a generational thing. Once governments are filled with gamers it won’t be a thing.
Ah, yes. The old "video games cause violence" chestnut. I still wonder what video games all those dictators played during World War II. It's gotta be those games we need to be checking out.
Zelnick and Slatoff have received a $25m bonus for their management fund after sacking 550 people from Take Two Interactive.
550 probably consultants.
GTA6 is in tweak phase, no need for massive number of people for that.
Bury them deep, plant an endangered species of tree ontop- body can never be recovered 🧐
Don’t ask how I know this 😂
So don't support take 2 by buying games... pretty easy to vote with your wallet.
I really don't even think CEO's should get bonuses. If I were a CEO and I made millions, I would like to think I wouldn't. Or if I had to legally, I would maybe find a way to disperse among the lower tier employees. Take my bonus and turn it into stocks to disperse out to those employees evenly.
That would be the way to do it. Imagine thinking a CEOs "leadership" is worth that much money while the talent makes the product.
Insanity.
I remember when I started working, my department manager used to gift us stuff each year, one year I got a bottle of Scotch, another it was a small basket of treats... But that was also a lot less money than what we're talking about here.
It would be ideal if the CEO could gift a bonus to everyone under them.
Monetary company bonuses (often referred to as Christmas bonuses) were astoundingly common.
The entire premise of Christmas Vacation was set around Clark's bonus.
CEO's work for shareholders and are shareholders they also rely on share price to receive their multimillion dollar paydays and they will happily fire thousands to protect shares. CEO's are there to extract the most value out of a company and give it to the wealthy few.
That is so god damn fucked up!! Unfortunately...I know damn well I will be still buying their games but shit like this should seriously have some sort of repercussion of some sort. 550 people get their lives totally up-ended and the leadership get a bonus on top of an already high salary. 25M could set those 550 people up with an annual salary each of $45,000. Depending on where you live, that is a very livable salary even...
" it seems to me that any company needs: talent, tech, IP, and a strong balance sheet"
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no show no problem more money more problems
take two haves many games to publish next year!
Take two can say this because they own R* and all R* has to do is release a turd covered in gold spray paint and it will sell millions.
Next gen is needed more than people think - hell my Samsung Galaxy has more ram than my xbox and ps3.
Disagree all you want but 6 years in the tech world is dinosaur age.
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#1.3.6
people who truly care about tech, graphics, ect have moved on to pc long ago....of course console only gamers don't care
they think 720p and jaggies look good
@chase below
pc gaming makes far more money than any single console, actually more than ps3/360 combined, it is expected to make more than all consoles including wii/ds/ps3/360/ps2/psp by next year