Rockstar mag dan misschien bekend staan om de verschillende Grand Theft Auto-games, het bedrijf bracht enkele jaren geleden het spel Red Dead Redemption op de markt waar de hele wereld versteld van stond. De vraag was echter of er nog een vervolg zou komen.
Strauss Zelnick, directeur van Take Two, heeft recentelijk in een interview laten weten dat Red Dead een doorlopende franchise is waar meerdere games in zullen verschijnen.
“The risk of just [releasing more games] is that you end up just bulking up your release schedule and that isn’t really what consumers want. Consumers want better, not more. So our selective approach, which we’ve taken since ’07 I think has paid off. Now, we have gotten more by taking that approach; we’ve launched one new successful franchise every year and I would like to keep doing that particularly because I talk about permanent franchises, but not everything is going to be a permanent franchise. Some of our great franchises eventually will lose their luster and some will hopefully be permanent.”
“I pretty much know the ones that I can assure you are permanent. It’s obvious that GTA is a permanent franchise as long as we keep delivering this incredible quality; it seems quite obvious that Red Dead is a permanent franchise, again with the same caveat, or Borderlands, for example, and NBA and others. But not everything is going to be a permanent franchise. We can do very well even if it’s not. I would like to see us grow with a couple more great franchises in the next couple years and we’re launching Evolve; we have very high hopes for that.”
De geruchten zijn al heel sterk dat er een nieuwe Red Dead in ontwikkeling is. Dat lijkt nu weliswaar bevestigd, maar het wachten is op een daadwerkelijke onthulling.
