With latest rumors swirling across the potential for a successor to the Nintendo Swap, many followers and builders have been involved a couple of potential lack of backward compatibility for such a console. And whereas the decision hasn’t fairly been delivered on whether or not or not a “Swap 2” would have the function, one main writer would not appear too involved concerning the prospect: Take-Two Interactive.
Chatting with IGN forward of the corporate’s Q1 earnings announcement, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick acknowledged that he felt backwards compatibility was “a profit to customers.” Nevertheless, he added that he’d “be stunned if platforms did not provide that with an improve that’s type of mid-cycle, nevertheless I am not sure it is a must-have.”
Zelnick’s response was a curious one – my preliminary query had talked about upcoming rumored console upgrades (particularly rumors of a PS5 Professional), however had honed in on asking a couple of Nintendo Swap successor particularly. So I adopted up by asking him if he thought-about the Nintendo Swap to be “mid-cycle.”
Zelnick replied: “Stays to be seen.”
Now, an imminent successor to the Swap remains to be totally within the “rumor” part, even when these rumors are steadily rising extra credible, so it is comprehensible that Zelnick is not concerned about saying something which may by accident reveal specifics of a brand new console earlier than Nintendo has one thing to say about it. However I did ask him if Take-Two could be an early supporter of a brand new Nintendo system as they have been with the Nintendo Swap, to which he replied, “virtually definitely.”
If dev kits are certainly within the wild, Take-Two would possible be one of many first firms to have them in hand, which means that no matter is occurring with the Swap, Take-Two is probably going poised to have video games of some sort within the chamber for no matter Nintendo has cooking subsequent. Backward compatibility or no. It is also price noting that Take-Two and Rockstar have been lately criticized by followers for the announcement of Pink Useless Redemption on Swap and PS4 at a $50 value level. The sport is already accessible on trendy Xbox consoles through backward compatibility for simply $30, and that model runs in 4K.
Take-Two’s Q1 earnings revealed that Grand Theft Auto 5 has as soon as once more bought one other 5 million copies, bringing it to a grand complete of over 185 million lifetime unit gross sales. Pink Useless Redemption 2 has achieved over 55 million items, and NBA2K23 has bought over 13 million, making it the second-highest promoting NBA 2K sport after NBA 2K20.
In complete, the corporate posted web bookings for the quarter of $1.2 billion (up 20% year-over-year) and is making ready to launch three “immersive core video games” this 12 months, together with NBA 2K24, WWE 2K24, and one unnamed title coming late within the fiscal 12 months. The writer continues to trace at preparations for an enormous following 12 months in fiscal 2025, which we suspect may imply the discharge of the long-awaited Grand Theft Auto 6, amongst different video games.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Bought a narrative tip? Ship it to rvalentine@ign.com.