Take-Two Interactive is one of the world's biggest publishers of video games thanks to its ownership of Rockstar and 2K Games, and owns some of the biggest properties in the business - including Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption.
The company has supported Switch during its first year with the likes of L.A. Noire, NBA 2K18 and WWE 2K18, and it is clear that its continued support is going to be important for Nintendo's machine in 2018 and beyond.
During its latest financial call, Take-Two president Karl Slatoff was quizzed about the future Switch projects, including the inevitable question of when Grand Theft Auto V is coming to the system.
He replied:
In terms of bringing other titles to Switch, obviously we’ve done a few titles already. We’ve done NBA, WWE, L.A. Noire. We look at this like any other platform opportunity to the extent that we look at our development costs, is the game right for the platform, what does the audience look like, what’s the install base? So when we do believe that there’s an opportunity to do something on Switch, then you’ll hear from the labels. We are impressed with the growth, we’re impressed with the units that have been sold into the market so far, so we’re very sanguine at this point, but we’ve nothing more to announce specifically at this point.
"Nothing to announce" doesn't mean Take-Two isn't working on any Switch projects, of course. Publishers sit on announcements all the time, choosing to reveal them at a point which suits their marketing strategy. It's almost a given that Take-Two - via Rockstar and 2K Games - will have Switch projects in development, but we may not hear about them until E3 this year.
What Take-Two games do you want to see come to the Switch? Let us know with a comment.
[source nintendoeverything.com]
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Doomed? Pre-order cancelled?
GTA 5 for switch confirmed
"...is the game right for the platform, what does the audience look like..."
It's not like you don't port your games to every existing hardware including smartphones? With a few exceptions like RDR? Maybe the only exception? RDR for Switch confirmed?!?!??!?
They better bring GTA 5 to the Switch. It’s the one game Nintendo library is really lacking. BO4 and GTA 5 would be Day one purchases for me. If they can release San Andreas and Vice City and Chinatown to the iOS/Android tablets they could at least put them on the Switch as well.
GTA V on switch please.
(i'll double dip for a third time. only because the switch can be played on the go.)
As much as I like Take Two WWE was a joke, and NBA was one when it started out. If they do bring games to the Switch, please make them at least playable...
I've got GTA V for PC and I liked it, but for sure wouldn't double dip if it's coming to PC. Now if Red Dead Redemption would come to the Switch, things would be very different.
I just want GTA. All of them. And Bully.
He is sanguine. What a word, why can't he just said optimistic?
Just give me Bioshock collection
WWE is not supporting the Switch.
Cmon guys!! ANY Grand theft auto would be great! Doesn’t have to be V....hell I’ll take Vice City or San Andreas Remastered?? Would be incredible- Die Hard Nintendo only fans would finally see what they’ve been missing!!
@Nincompoop This article should have offered a definition for sanguine to save us all looking it up.
That's a very noncommittal statement.
@joey302 @Moon @Saego @Winklebottom @DizzyDee81 @mattmayatt GTA V is 60GB, are you willing to buy a cartridge with 20GB on it and download 40GB online? It's going to be worse than LA Noire.
I'm calling it right now, GTA Collection for switch! 3, Vice City and San Andreas remastered for on the go jacking!
RDR please fingers crossed 🤞
I would totally double dip on GTA 5 (one of the best gaming experiences I’ve ever had), but I just don’t see it happening. I don’t think people realize how massive the game is, and it would be insanely difficult to condense it down to the current cards that are being used. LA Noire took up a ton of space, and it was not nearly as big of a game.
@Nincompoop That's why there are SD cards, aren't there?
@Saego If you've got 128GB sdcard, 60GB will used up half of it. The GTA V DLC will consumed the other half later.
Wow, that's way better than I imagined!
At the very least they're considering it, at the most they're alread developing it.
Personally, I'm certain GTA and RDR would sell on any platform. Due to their quality and mass market appeal, there is no platform where they don't fit to the audience.
Take Two, take my money!
As a PC player, I'd buy RDR and RDR2 instantly for Switch! Especially if it comes with gyro aim like L.A. Noire.
@Nincompoop I bought La Noire on the eshop, I’d definitely download 60gb for GTA 5... I’m investing in a 256 gb SD card, and I’ll probably get a 512gb as well.
@BanjoPickles I e got it on my PS3, so I don’t see it being a problem for the Switch. I don’t care how big the download is.
@Nincompoop And that's why you can have multiple SD cards. Aside from that, IF GTA V is coming to the Switch, which I don't think it will, does that mean Online would come to? It's all speculation.
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@Saego I actually played through GTA V twice already (once on Xbox360, once on PC - I sold the Xbox and the game afterwards) - and also GTAO on PC - but I might even buy it a third time on Switch, simply because it's GTA, a must-have.
But RDR? Man, that could be a system seller! There are maby PC gamers who were left out. Some of them might buy a Switch just for that game - at least those who are already considering buying a Switch.
Yep this is exactly as i thought. and have been expecting. "we like the Switch but nothing planned yet" sounds eerily familiar
3rd parties don't want to make games for Nintendo because Nintendo competes with 3rd party game developers through it's first party games. from a business point of view it doesn't make sense for 3rd parties to take sales away from Sony and Microsoft by creating games for Nintendo if customers only buy Nintendo exclusives on Nintendo hardware. Which has been the case since forever.
3rd parties got burned by Nintendo on the Wii, top 10 selling games on gen 7's highest selling hardware was all Nintendo exclusives.
By creating games for Nintendo hardware 3rd parties will be giving Nintendo an advantage over them. No business would give their own competitor the edge over themselves.
Nintendo's only hope is to outright buy exclusivity like Sony does, but Nintendo are too proud to do that on the same level that Sony has.
further to my above point, we Nintendo fans need to buy 3rd party games like nobody's business otherwise this will continue, we need to grab every copy of skyrim and la noire we can otherwise the trend wont stop.
We need to get non Nintendo titles on the top 10 selling list for Nintendo hardware, until that happens you wont see any great support from AAA publishers on any Nintendo hardware outside of the 3DS.
@shani Agreed. I like the GTA games, but that's it. It's just not my kind of game although I can see the love and time put in them.
But for RDR, there are a LOT of pc gamers (including myself) who can't play the original simply because they don't have a xBox 360 or PS3. RDR on the Switch would be a real system seller.
With the sorry state of some of their titles and their cheapskate method of paying for the smallest carts and dumping the SD card costs on us, I frankly couldn’t give the polished butt cheek of a macaque’s derier on what they do. At the end of the day, they are now mainly about trying to maximise continued monetisation and flow of income through their “Service Games” and I suspect RDR2 is likely to suffer from it. Even if its kept seperate from the singleplayer.
But for the good of “mass market appeal” I guess I should hope for some Take Two input on the Switch.
@Nincompoop
GTA V was 36GB on PS3 and 17GB IIRC on 360. The Switch version would be closer to them anyway.
They're looking at an empty boot in the screenshot.
Of course GTA V is coming to Switch
@Nincompoop good point but i have a 256G Card and have zero interest in playing GTA online which is also why I mentioned Vice & San as more than acceptable substitutes. Even a GTA III remastered would be awesome 😎
I'm going to be a non-conformist and demand Max Payne 3 for Switch. But if they released it people would still have a nag about GTA not being there
As much as I believe GTA would sell very well on Switch, I for one wouldn't be buying it.
I bought it originally on PS3, double dipped on PS4. Although I no longer own either copy I really see no need to buy it again for a 3rd time.
Portability isn't a thing for me.... I know people have different views but to me my Switch is a home console first and foremost and the fact it can be taken anywhere is simply an added (mostly unused) bonus
Here we go again.
I care about their support just as much as they cared about quality releases on Switch..
Having said that. I'd still be a sucker for GTA5 single player. Don't care for their cash grab online.
@Nincompoop between a one-time 60 Gb download on Switch (not counting updates, but those are smaller and few and far between on PS4) and 1-2 Gb per hour of gameplay on Vita, I personally find Switch much more beneficial. XD
If PS3 can run GTA V then surely the Switch can, make it happen.
I wouldn't be touting WWE and NBA for the Switch. Those games were a mess. Hopefully they take that into consideration when evaluating interest in their properties on Switch. If those games sell horribly it is because they were poor quality games, not because there wasn't interest in them. I might've bought them both until I read the reviews on them. Some gaming site or magazine needs to call them out on this and see what their answer is.
@Nincompoop don't worry, friend,. i got myself covered
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sandisk-ultra-200gb-microsdxc-uhs-i-memory-card/6330207.p?skuId=6330207&ref=212&loc=1&ksid=cf2014f8-a069-43c1-8b50-8540d5a2637b&ksprof_id=14&ksaffcode=pg257479&ksdevice=c&lsft=ref:212,loc:2
@Nincompoop GTAV is 60GB with full quality textures and audio which isn't needed (or useful) on Switch. That size can come down easily. Though I don't expect 2K to have the talent to do it.
This whole statement from them reads like a WiiU statement. Which is pretty strange while the Switch is expanding rapidly and most publishers are getting on board except EA and Activision. And even EA's more on board than usual.
I imagine they're recoiling from their own bad numbers from their 3 releases, but NBA was a disaster. They fixed it but the PR was already done. WWE was a giant middle finger to anyone unfortunate enough to buy it, and L.A. Noire was great, but it tanked on all platforms the first time around, and tanked on all platforms the second time around, which is a shame.
They have GTAV which shouldn't still be selling well but is, so it's valid, it's old, that could happen, and surprisingly has a history on Nintendo. But what else do they really have to port at this point? Max Payne? That's going nowhere fast. Borderlands would work. Borderlands would work so well. Of course the state of the franchise is a hot mess.
@Nincompoop well, I for one am happy he did, as (being a non-native speaker) it gave me the chance to learn a new, somewhat obscure word
An investor's Q and A session really isn't the place to be announcing future titles. Marketing would go ballistic.
@Razer
i disagree with that a little. it's not the Nintendo games they can't compete with; it's the power they're not willing to put up with.
as long as N keeps making systems that are so below the other 2 then this is what happens. 3rd parties want to crap out the easiest thing and shove it to as many platforms as possible. that's why everything is on PC/PS/XB but not N's stuff.
also gtaV was a complete and total dog on the ps3 so i don't even know why switch owners would even want to put up with that. that's even going so far as to say the switch can even GET to that type of performance with that engine.
you bought a nes and snes to play all the games. you bought an n64 onward for just N games since they stuck their heads so far up their backsides on everything after the snes they ruined their own house. no CD no square. tiny discs nothing. underpowered waggle garbage nothing. confusing half gen system nothing. underpowered portable takes place of the 3ds eventually.
so yeah. the switch is a great indie system and first party system but i'll take my big boy games on the PC (and the switch won't get em anyway).
@ClassSonicSatAm
lol. run is a term i'd use loosely.
sub 720 at about 20fps is not a good time.
edit: although a remastered (updated graphics to what the switch can do reliably) gta vc and san andreas would be so great. i'd pick that up in a nanosecond.
don't see RDR ever coming back out on anything if the stories on the state of that game are correct. RDR2 BETTER come to PC or I'll be so angry.
"development costs, is the game right for the platform, what does the audience look like"
I don't like one bit when developers ask this questions regarding the switch
If Take Two is serious about Switch then they need to do a better job of managing their affiliation in regards to releasing game complete. WWE 2K18 was garbage at launch and this will affect them negatively if WWE 2K19 will just repeat that process.
@sword_9mm Actually power has little to do with it, as proven by companies like Bethesda (one of only a hand full of 3rd parties that have not shunned Nintendo), but you're right, they really burned their own house after the N64, but even the lock out chips on the Nes didn't help as far as reputation with 3rd parties is concerned.
it's all about their own first party games though, that's where the crux of the problem is. basically to do a quick summary.
If 3rd parties make games for Nintendo, Nintendo hardware will sell gangbusters all over PS4 and Xbox, But Nintendo create hardware around what their own 1st party software developers want, so nobody but Nintendo's own house will know how to develop effectively for their own hardware, this means that Nintendo's own 1st party games will always shine brighter than any 3rd party games.
So look at this from a business stand point - Make games for Nintendo to help them sell more hardware so Nintendo OWN games sell better than your own. (this is EXACTLY what happened with the Wii)
Now consider that the Switch is selling insane without 3rd parties on board, can you imagine what would happen to PS4 and Xbox if 3rd parties did support Nintendo? Nothing good you can be sure.
3rd parties DO NOT WANT THIS, some will stop making games altogether to avoid having to conform to Nintendo, especially if that market was dominated by only Nintendo, i have developer friends who categorically tell me they would never make a game for Nintendo, because Nintendo is one of their biggest competitors.
Publishers are fully aware of Nintendo's method here and it does not fly well with their share holders.
In fact it was my father who explained this to me, he's been a commercial director for an IT company for years, so not into games at all, we were talking about the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo's comeback in April, interesting convo we had but he really opened my eyes into how business works.
Nintendo's 1st party games compete directly with every 3rd party publisher. In fact just look at Goty 2017 and you'l see exactly what i mean, how many of the Non Nintendo publishers do you think on the list of people who made goty contender games, were happy to see Nintendo win both 1st and second place?
None.
@Razer
well sony's 1st party compete with 3rd as well; and i would say MS but they've all but quit 1st party stuff. I mean why would say EA bring out a 3rd person shooter when Uncharted and Last of Us will be better anyway?
i still don't buy that it's N games that are the problem but I can see it in another way other than dumb gimmicks and underpowered systems.
also maybe N's market just isn't as large as Sony's. you can buy a ps4 pro cheap and get 'ALL THE THINGS'. why even buy an N console?
I think this is a real crossing point for N. they do gangbusters in portable and have had no trouble getting 3rd party games on them. now can they do that with an 'almost' console portable and games costing 60$ and not 30$ like the old days? we'll see if they can kill off the 3ds as the 'portable' N system and supplant that with the Switch. The dock is inconsequential imo. Cute but unneeded.
i mean i double dipped for LA Noir (didn't really touch it on PC) and i did buy Skyrim (never even played this one at all) so there are those of us that will buy 3rd party games AND N's games. No I won't buy GTAV again or something like COD (I don't like those anyway) or Doom again but bring out something like a GTA VC/San Andreas combo pack with both and updated graphics? I'll double dip for those.
Right now I'm having trouble even seeing 3rd party games I'd even want on my PC let alone the Switch and really other than the warmed over Maddens and CODs and some Monster Hunter MMO thing i'm not seeing a lot of ANYTHING 'AAA third party' i even care about.
indies and Wii-U ports are more my speed with this thing.
@sword_9mm what Sony and Microsoft 1st parties? Sony buy's out exclusivity but they don't make their own games (a division of Sony makes some mobile drivle games). there an no Sony developed games, only games made by publishers that Sony buys out, or exclusive games from publishers like Capcoms Street Fighter 5.
This is entirely different and actually helps the 3rd party market. I can't reply to the rest of what you said because its centered around this section being correct and it's not.
publishers like NaughtyDog are purchased by Sony to make exclusive games for them, Nintendo actually goes out of its way to compete with 3rd parties, Nintendo have bought some developers, like the pokemon company, although they wouldn't be around if it were not for Nintendo, as you can also see with them though, they have developed games that are not only Nintendo exclusives (just like other 3rd party publishers who get swallowed by Sony)
https://www.lifewire.com/how-nintendo-made-wii-u-success-difficult-for-third-party-publishers-2498687
this article touches on it slightly but there are a few other articles out there that go into much greater detail, i'm at work though and half the internet is blocked here so you'll have to find them yourself. (father actually showed me them back in March last year)
the rest of your argument hinges on the first party being correct. it's not so i don't have to address the rest.
@Razer
i consider naughty dog sony 1st party as rare was to N back in the day and to MS until they botched it.
until Naughty dog makes a game for XB/PC then they're sony first party.
either way N isn't getting a bunch of big games on the switch because it's just not worth it. the system is too underpowered and devs don't care to take the time to make stuff work (just look at some PC games for the laziness of dev houses), the media used is stupid (why isn't N giving carts away to 3rd parties? greed and idiocy), and the base that N sells to doesn't care.
pretty much the summation of this whole thing. GTAV isn't coming out on the switch because of mario odysee. it's MUCH MUCH more than that.
edit: and sony owns naughty dog so i'm not sure what you are talking about with that.
Red Dead Redemption would be so awesome!
@Razer what are you talking about? Sony own about 15 first party studios. Media Molicule, Naughty Dog, Guerilla, Sony Santa Monica, Sony Japan to name a few...
No company is going to announce any new games for any platform during shareholder meetings.
Bioshock collection, GTA 5, RDRemaster, RDR 2, if possible. I would take a Vice City and San Andreas remake. Remasters wouldn't do them justice. Maybe even a Warriors remake.
Yep, just as I predicted. These big time AAA 3rd party companies will give Nintendo a shot every generation. And then every generation Nintendo fans ignore their games while clamoring for more Mario.
So, what happens? 3rd party support dwindles. Shame, really.
Now, I would love Bioshock and GTAV to come to Switch. However, with the success of Mario and Rabbids, they have to be sanguine about X-Com's chances (even in Japan!)
They blew the WWE2k18 port, NBA2k18 was good but the way you have to get virtual currency ruined it. LA Noire was fantastic... hopefully they’ll realize that GTAV is a no-brainer and a must have on the switch
GTA V seems like a no brainer. I'd buy it for the third time on Switch if it were to come out for it. I enjoy the single player mode that much.
What I think companies should do with larger games like GTA V is put part of the game on a game card and include a micro SD card with the rest of the game preinstalled. It would be cheaper than larger game cards for the publisher and the consumer wouldn't have to worry about downloads or space management. It's not like the micro SD cards are difficult to swap and they could even put the game logo on the SD card for easy identification.
I'd rather see their back catalogue on the switch: Bioshock, all the gta3 games, the Warriors, etc.
Many say gtav would be easy, but you have to remember that while switch beats x360 and ps3 for memory and GPU, the CPU is not that strong, and gtav does require a good CPU.
We could see that with la noire, the game was designed for the cell processor and there was slowdown on the switch.
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So many gamers would double/triple dip on GTA V just for the portability. It would be insane not to put it Switch.
He didn't say nothing was planned. He said nothing to announce. Which of course he has nothing to announce. Take-Two operate a label system, which means it is up to 2K/Rockstar/Private Division to do the announcing.
@Razer
At the point Sony (or MS, or Nintendo) buy a developer they're not third-party anymore and they compete with third-parties
Less talk, more action Take Two! That poor PR talk is nearly same as as a non-switch owner saying they are impressed with the Switch, but have no intentions of buying one.
You are either making games for Switch, or not. It's not rocket science. So announce something proper, and stop acting like an overpaid and overweight manager who just sits there all day on his desk eating pizza.
Here is a fun image article caption: 3 guys put the body of Take-Two president Karl Slatoff, into a car boot after 2 awful Switch ports of WWE 2k18 and NBA.
As long as they don't follow again the same strategy again as in LA Noire (shipping the cartridge with half the game on it) I would be interested on RDR.
Bioshock series would be cool as well. But that cheap cart/ download trick needs to be adressed!
i think GTAV will be announced alongside the new Nintendo Online thing. No point in putting that game on there now. Either way it'll sell HUGE, but for longevity's sake (funny), waiting for a better online structure for Switch will keep people on the the Switch version.
@sword_9mm last I saw that's what the PS3 version ran at... when it came out it was fine. even the PS4 version is only 30fps. just having a decent version of GTA V on the go would be awesome (and having L.A Noire shows it can be done) Not sure if I would want the PS2 era GTAs "again" as you can get them on your phone and even the PSP stories versions for some years now...
@ClassSonicSatAm
the ps3/360 was more around 24fps iirc. ps4/xb1 30. my pc 60. so coming from a ferrari why drive a civic?
either way i'm not disagreeing. i just don't see them wasting the time on it.
i say VC/SA because if they'd up the graphics from ps2 to ps3 and keep a solid 30fps 720p? i'd so rebuy those games. i'm not expecting and upgrade to even gta4 graphics, but heck, they could uprez it and clean it up a bit. 49$ for the 2 of em in cleaner/clearer graphics with a solid 30 (60 if possible) framerate? sign me up.
@sword_9mm Could see the Switch being about the same as the 360/PS3 port, which for a portable system is fine. (again the PS4 port is only 6 fps faster.... and as for the PC, getting a powerful enough laptop/table the size of a switch is near impossible and would cost a heck of a lot... ) much like Doom as long it's passable it be a great game for the Switch.
if you want VS/SA get your phone/tablet out, they been on the Google playstore /iTunes store for years now, get all 3 PS2 era gtas for about a £10 even the psp versions are on there too.
The Switch could handle it with 60fps easily... (it's a PS2 game.. ) but would be the point? the games have aged, it's time we got a PS3 era GTA game with the portable treatment, and the Switch is more then able to deliver that.
RDR, Bully, and GTA would be a day one purchase!
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