Take-Two Says GTA Trilogy "Significantly Exceeded" Sales Expectations Despite "Quality Lapse"

Exec 1 : See, I told you..
Exec 2 : Dang.. How far is GTA VI?
Exec 1 : 3% complete.
Exec 2 : SHIP IT!!

Too bad ... Could have even a great example of poor quality - poor sales

GTA games prior to GTAV are still selling, even if they aren't selling very much - I imagine some PC players probably panic-bought the original PC ports of GTA3/Vice City/San Andreas before Rockstar removed them from PC storefronts.

GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition sales are probably a fair bit lower than 10 million, though still too high given it's shoddy quality.

I hope at some point they bring GTA V

Edit: Also I had a great time with 3. Currently playing through vice city and its the roughest I think in conversion, but still good fun

Well I'm glad I didn't buy it. I'd rather fondly remember the good versions of this I played, rather than spoil those memories with these abominations.

“During a call with investors […]“ Take-Two cater to investors and shareholders, not customers. I'm boycotting their products indefinitely.

@sirlordrob 50 hours in and I agree with the 9/10. No feeling of jankyness or incomplete.....best Pokemon in years

GTA was a mess and disappointing.

And why exactly do you think it sold well? It's because you marketed it to be super duper great without pointing out any potential flaws, especially the Nintendo Switch version.

@sirlordrob While I agree Legends got too high a score and absolutely needed more time in the oven, the difference in quality between it and GTA Trilogy are way too high to call it comparable like that. GTA was an absolute unplayable mess, Legends is at least not (very) buggy and in need of dozens of patches just to function as it should.

Wow, what a generic excuse: "Very occasionally we fall short, and I think the trilogy was an example of that. We’ve had precious few quality lapses at this company, so any time that we’ve fallen short from a quality point of view it has been an isolated case and we aim to keep It that way."

In other words, we know the quality sucks, but hey, everybody makes mistakes. Except when most others do, they don't sell 10 million of them, because of the name and how it's marketed. I am glad I didn't buy this heap of trash, but I'm very sad to see it doing so well, despite the bad quality.

I hopz that they had extremely low expectations because from what what I've seen and read, this remaster is a joke. It's really disappointing if many people bought this mess of a game. Which is a same because these old GTA games really deserve better.

Lol effort check. Yep everyone will buy it still! Go crazy boys

@sirlordrob you are wrong, it is the best pokemon game in a long time.

@sirlordrob Not saying that Legends is perfect, technicals aspects of the game would have needed more time, but how can you compare this brand new open world game, to litteraly 20 years old games who run lesser good than the original on PS2?! How?

Of course, as a lot of people put faith in and hoped it was good and pre-ordered it.

Then found out it was a huge pile of bilge, so they got your money.

So glad the physical was later so didn't fall for their scam

With other words: "Lol those fools still mindlessly bought that game"

Is the trilogy in a playable state now on switch? I would like to get it but not if it is unplayable

@Patendo

There's things I like about Arceus Legends too but the same can be said of GTA Trilogy. Both good games that are mired by inexcusable performance and visual issues. Both need more time in the oven and shouldn't have been released in their current state. But Arceus Legends is getting away with it because the franchise tried something different for the first time in decades.

Watching the gyrados fly around flickering at 2 fps had me in stitches. Right up there with GTA Trilogy's memes.

This is why gaming is going to hell in a hand basket. People keep buying absolute garbage and sending the message that it’s totally OK to charge people for absolute garbage. IT MAKES ME SO MAD. Expect this stuff to only get worse in the future, the floodgates are open.

@BenAV well, when the bar is that low you don't need much to improve it, but still, to me it doesn't feel like an unfinished and janky product, it feels like effort and risks to change a VERY conservative series.

People with no self-control are ruining it for the rest of us.

Just... why? "sigh"

Are they even still patching/fixing the game or have they given up now that they have the 💰?

What a joke Rockstar has become.

@sirlordrob

nice try, I know a troll when I see one.

@sirlordrob Please no way is the level of broken (which it isn't) and janky is even same realm to even be comparable.

As someone who's played 3, VC and SA on the PS2 when they were new, I refuse to buy this just because of the loss of music.

I'd drive around endlessly, not doing any missions just listening to nearly all the radio stations!

Only the rap and spanish stations I skipped.

@r0mer0
All companies answer to investors and not customers!

A classic example of a popular product not necessarily being a good product

@prismt
Modders fixed GTA on Switch?
Is there an article somewhere?
I'd like to read it.

@-wc- "I don't agree with your opinion. So you must be a troll" Your comment in another words...

Sadly this just teaches them they can ship a half finished game, get destroyed in the press and STILL make a fortune. Just encourages them to keep doing it.

I would buy it, but it would have to be all on the upcoming cartridge.

@ecco6t9 All three games seem to be archive on the cartridge, you just need to download the rest of the contents. Take Two makes it look like they are on the cartridge but not really. This is probably them attempting this procedure so they don't have to include a code in the box for the other two games.

It's a real shame because these are some of my favourite games of all time, I just can't buy them knowing that the game is in the state it's in.

I wonder what their sales would be like if they allowed people to get refunds after finding the product was not as advertised?

I collect physical editions and I won't buy this. It's going to be the s**t version that was first released digitally. That means no patches on the game card. Why buy a physical of a game that was as shoddy as this release? After the Switch eShop closes this game won't be able to update anymore. Which means it's useless to collect imo.

proof that a critical mass of gamers is stupid and ruins the entire industry for everyone else.

change my mind.

Anyone who hoped that GTA Trilogy would bomb was just dreaming. It's basically the west's Pokémon regarding sales power.

Now they are goin to release GTA 6 in a terrible unfinished state and sell you the error fixing updates as DLC.

Pokemon-like. 12938734 million sales, but poor game.

Such a shame that such a mediocre release wound up being profitable.

The good numbers they got were probably just pre-orders...

I see this game everywhere and people aren't buying due to bad reviews.

After Cyberpunk, people started looking closer and they were already skeptical about GTA.

@Savage_Joe
sometimes i come back to a comment i made and i just dont care anymore. this is one of those times.

if you weren't trolling, i apologize. i do think the comparison you were making is a bit of a stretch, considering factors.

I waited for the physical Xbox version because I have 4 and 5 on that system already.

Did the multiple patches for the Switch version not make a big difference to the games overall?

I've had no performance issues with the Xbox version.

@__jamiie This is advice you can ignore, but asking others here if the game is good since patches will give you very different answers considering how inflammatory the topic is. It's really best to make your own call by watching gameplay. You know what you like and don't like better than anyone else.

Similar to Cyberpunk, a good chunk of people hate the game for having a terrible release, and will ignore or disregard patches that fix most of their complaints. Similarly, a good chunk of people will defend the trilogy almost to a fault because they are trying to compensate for how negative the reception is.

As someone who owns the trilogy on Switch, I definitely see where both sides are coming from - there are things about all 3 games that lack quality compared to other Switch titles, but all of which are perfectly playable and enjoyable games in the end. If you played these games before, you'll experience the same fun gameplay, plus some improvements but also plus a few janky issues that may be new to you. I'm about finished with SA and VC and haven't run into anything that prevented me from playing and enjoying the games like I did when they first released.

Both sides blow it out of proportion, so you be the judge.

@Astral-Grain Yeah I've had no issues at all with the Xbox versions and had the originals way back when. From what I've played I can only see improvements in QoL, frame rate and controls. People just love to be angry about things these days I guess.

@__jamiie It certainly seems that way, but I don't think that's the case exactly. Some people just focus a little too much on video games and before they know it, it becomes politics. Just like how some people can't enjoy movies because they've convinced themselves they know what happens behind the scenes and hold grudges because of it.

It's pretty easy to become obsessed with things that are intended to bring you happiness, but when you dig so deep you begin to stop enjoying it as entertainment and start to hate the industry as a whole, I think they end up losing something that once brought them happiness and replace it with something else that only brings them frustration.

If I knew what they "knew" I too might have a bleak outlook on the gaming industry. There's definitely such a thing as knowing too much and ruining what used to be fun when you dig too deep. It just amounts to a lot of wasted energy and becoming more upset than you were before. It's really too bad.

@Spider-Kev “All companies answer to investors and not customers!“
The board has to answer to the owners, the shareholders, that’s correct. I used the word “cater” on purpose; the situation is comparable to a restaurant manager telling the owner his business is doing great, because patrons will return despite the rotten food they were served and charged for.

Take-Two’s business is selling content to consumers, on behalf of the owners. Strauss Zelnick is spinning reality to current and potential owners when he tells them that offending customers had no consequences. Take-Two got their return of investment, yes, but their reputation is harmed. The CEO wants to please his bosses instead of his customers.

The funny thing is, when the topic is piracy, publishers talk up potentially lost revenue. When they screw up, they ignore all the sales they lost …

And this is why we can't have nice things!