Will Rockstar Become a Two IP Studio?

IGN’s Xbox crew discusses the growing amount of time between new Rockstar releases, and whether or not that means they might become a two-IP (Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead) studio.

[fenome]

Hopefully we'll get more than one game per gen out of them.

[Sherif129]

Rockstar released 3 games last gen, which were GTA IV, Red Dead Redemption and GTA V.

[Movefasta1993]

Max Payne ?

[InKnight7s]

midnight club? and each game has masive DLC expansion.

[Ausbo]

Last gen was a long time though. 8 years. This is probably it from them. The next might be cross gen

[super_cuddles]

GTA 4 , red dead, max Payne 3, la noire, and GTA v , and most of these games had expansions added as dlc

[mafiahajeri]

I love how sure your were xD

[fenome]

Yeah, last gen. How many have they released so far this gen?

[Godmars290]

Your maths no good son...

[Skuletor]

How can you have forgotten Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis?

[JackBNimble]

Just because we haven't heard any news on anymore games as of yet does not mean that rockstar isn't working on anything.
There are hundreds of developers and multiple studios, do you really think all these people are just working on Gta5 updates and RDR2?

[EazyC]

Max Payne, Midnight Club, Table Tennis...quite a few!

[milohighclub]

I reckon ps4 will see gta 6 but it will launch after the ps5

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[porkChop]

Considering that Rockstar has a bunch of studios? No. They're taking a long time, sure, but it's because they can afford to take their time and experiment with ideas and concepts.

[_-EDMIX-_]

Agreed. I was just about to say we don't even know what their other studios are doing

I have no idea why Gamers don't really fully understand this and you have multiple articles that don't elaborate or go into detail or even seem to realize that rockstar made up of multiple teams.

So the way I look at it is this article can't really be taken seriously because I'm not even sure the author is educated enough to realize the structure of this team.

Who on Earth is "their"? Dear God are they seriously telling me they don't know that there are multiple teams within Rockstar? He made the statements and never brought in Rockstar Leeds or Rockstar San Diego and it's very apparent because no one's either correcting this or they may not fully understand what they're talking about.

So what I'm hearing stuff like "their a talented Studio" and no plural this tells me they just don't know what they're talking about.

I don't believe every single last support Studio. Rockstar is working on a singular game, that just sounds completely idiotic and I'm not entirely sure why they would come to such a conclusion considering that did not happen any of the previous generations regarding this series of teams.

I don't even think they even know 100% the exact team at rock star that is even making red dead 2 as I'm not even sure it was 100% confirmed for all we know the majority of the team making this is the San Diego team that made the very original Red Dead Redemption, the team that specifically worked on Grand Theft Auto V has likely been developing Grand Theft Auto 6 for years.

[mastiffchild]

While I agree that more titles are both possible and likely we can't ignore the amount of work still going into GTA5 online.

With the stated insistence on their future games having big online elements we can also assume a big staff to service RDR2 online post release. Producing new modes and theists and all sorts has kept GTA going heavily and must tie up devs.

I doubt that means Rock star have no other games in the works but I dunno if there's many now each game needs such support alongside and beyond SP.

I would love to finally see Bully sequel or even Agent but with their games as service focus I fear we need to be more realistic esp as T2 have made awful noises following on from making billions from bloody shark cards. I just wish players would stop supporting that kind of thing as it leads to a place of less and less variety.

[_-EDMIX-_]

@mast-I don't disagree that of course there's going to be work done on Grand Theft Auto V in terms of downloadable content but that's normally not going to be done by team of hundreds.

I think the team that does the downloadable content for the Battlefield games is literally like 20 or 30 people.

So take in consideration that the people that work on the downloadable content are not really going to be working on the main games. So the artist the programmers The Producers the story writers what have you all of those people are likely working on Grand Theft Auto 6.

I definitely want to see a sequel to bully to my understanding the rumor was that bully 2 was being worked on and many of the announcements by Rockstar are basically confirming what the original person stated about the leaks.

They were able to confirm lots of downloadable content announcements that were 100% true so I believe bully 2 is probably being worked on buy the original Vancouver team (or what's left of that original team)

I don't care if people support Shark cards as that's up to them that's their choice as long as it does not interfere with the single-player stuff we see from Grand Theft Auto bully Red Dead what have you.

And from what I've seen I don't really believe anything regarding online has affected what you see from the single-player aspect of their games.

[fenome]

They can definitely afford it, they've been coasting on GTAV since last gen.

[PhoenixUp]

It’s really absurd how a publisher as big as Rockstar has yet to put out a new game thus far this entire generation.

You could expect that from a developer perhaps but not from a major publisher. No other publisher of this magnitude has skated by four years of a generation through two remasters and DLC alone.

[Sgt_Slaughter]

Unfortunately this is what happens when a company rakes in so much money due to one game and the microtransactions involved with it.

[PhoenixUp]

Then that publisher would continue investing in that one game, not stop releasing new games.

We’ve seen other major publishers become heavily invested in microtransactions yet still release a slate of games annually like a publisher is supposed to.

Rockstar seems to be behaving like the name of their company

[jesujohn]

They might, their games sell a lot so money so less is more in their case.

[munchmiller]

You mean, they aren't already?

[bluefox755]

They kind of already are.

[WeAreLegion]

No way. Bully II is in production at Rockstar Toronto.

[TheOttomatic91]

It depends on the quality of said games and due to how well the 2 IPs sell it wouldn’t be that surprising.

[tehpees3]

The guy who leaked LA Noire remastered said Bully 2 was on the way. I'm actually sad they've forgotten about Smugglers Run.

[Orionsangel]

Horses will cost 500 dollars in RDR2 Online and 500 dollars is like a million dollars in the old west. You will be able to buy Bandit Cards that will give you in game currency!

[paintedgamer1984]

With as much $$$ they made off of gta5 they could def do this. Im also still holding faith playstation exclusive agent is still being made

[Cajun Chicken]

Arguably, per generation, it has been a low IP studio.

PS: GTA
PS2: GTA, Manhunt, Bully
PS3: GTA, RDR

[Deeeeznuuuts]

Ps2 had midnight club, state of emergency and the second max Payne
Last gen also had midnight club, as well as table tennis, max Payne and la noire. not to mention psp support with three GTA games and midnight club

[Cajun Chicken]

See, I forgot to count Max Payne because Rockstar didn't develop the first two and nor did they develop State of Emergency, same as Oni from Bungie. I never valued Midnight Club or Smuggler's Run, but that's just me.

I'd be bluntly honest, as a publishing house with multiple risk taking IPs, Devolver Digital are the new Rockstar.

[_-EDMIX-_]

I mean if you're going to make a point I actually think you need to research what their Studios have been able to put out.

You sound like you're guessing so it's hard to take your post seriously off of a guess.

On the top of my head I could easily tell you Rockstar put out Red Dead Midnight Club Max Payne the Warriors on top of what you just listed for PlayStation 2.

For PlayStation 3 and 360 they released table top tennis, Grand Theft Auto Red Dead Redemption, Max Payne LA Noire sooo it's sounding like if you're good at base this off of memory Maybe your point doesn't really hold up and maybe you have to reevaluate it after some research.

[Cajun Chicken]

Actually I was basing it upon ORIGINAL IPs the studio has developed with their multiple and shared inhouse studios, purposely excluding any published games developed by other studios, like LA Noire being Team Bondi and The Warriors is a licensed IP based upon a movie, so my research holds up. Table Tennis was a demo stunt to get people excited for RAGE implementation in GTAIV.

[Godmars290]

until they decide to make a third? Yes.

[TheColbertinator]

Technically they have yet to release a new GTA for this gen. GTA5 is a port after all.

[Deeeeznuuuts]

No, they simply just do what they want

[neutralgamer1992]

they already are a mutiple game studio but the holdup is their leadership because everything relating to R* goes through houser brothers and i mean that in a psoitive sense. Housers will not endorse a bad game simple as that. I think we will see R* studios release 3 games within next 5 to 7 years(besides RDR2)

the reason i am saying that is because GTA5 has provided R* so much extra time and resoruces that all their studios are hard at work

RDR2
GTA6 in fall 2010) yes it's that deep into development
Bully 2(might be 2019)

Agent (exclusive or noT i don't care but i do think this game is more ready than we are made to believe)

Midnight club(50/50)

i don't see them doing max payne anytime soon last one sold poorly

I think one thing that GTA5 did for R* is made sure only games with potential to sell 25 or more million copies will be made by R* so forget any and all small IP's

[FPS_D3TH]

Just release Max Payne 3 for this current gen. The games graphics hold up and the gameplay is still pretty much unrivaled

[Cyborgg]

Where's agent?

[NotanotherReboot]

they need to make Bully 2

[kevnb]

I doubt it, they probably have a few games in development right now.