Take-Two CEO reveals the impact of the GTA 6 leaks

Date:
Wed, 08 Feb 2023 09:28:22 +0000

Description:
Games publisher Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick says the GTA 6 leaks didnt
affect business, but it was upsetting to the team.

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Take-Twos CEO Strauss Zelnick has spoken about the impact of the GTA 6 leaks on the business and, more importantly, its team.

While the GTA 6 leaks seemed quite significant at first, as various videos
and images were shown of the unfinished title, the CEO of Take-Two says that it hadnt affected the business in any negative way.

As a business matter, we're not affected, Zelnick told IGN . But as a
personal matter and an emotional matter, our teams are affected." While its a good thing that the business wasnt damaged by these unexpected leaks, they were still really frustrating and upsetting to the team, Zelnick said. A Message from Rockstar Games pic.twitter.com/T4Wztu8RW8 September 19, 2022 See more Stubborn leak

Theres a lot of excitement surrounding GTA 6 as many fans have already waited ten years for the next installment in the Grand Theft Auto series since Rockstar released GTA 5 in 2013. According to a report by Bloomberg, developers working on GTA 6 suggest a 2024 or 2025 release window, which is still a long way off what am I going to play in the meantime? The Saints Row reboot ?

This just seemed to make things worse for those who had waited so long for
the next GTA game

While we knew the game was in development, Rockstar had been classically
stoic about its progress and what would be on show in the new game. The first concrete details about the game came from the 90 leaked videos and
screenshots from the early alpha build still in development.

While there had been previous rumors about the next GTA title, such as the possibility of a female protagonist or the fact that the series could return to Vice City, these leaks were the first substantial piece of content that fans could dig their teeth into. But unfortunately, this just seemed to make things worse for those who had waited so long for the next GTA game. One more ruined (Image credit: Rockstar Games)

Leaks can ruin a good game, no matter how excited I am for a titles release. As an avid Pokmon fan, when Nintendo announces a new title, I find myself unplugging the wifi and barricading my door to protect myself from unwanted information.

In my opinion, most leaks either spoil information about a game I would want to find out for myself or make fans worried about something they have little to no control over.

After GTA 6 was leaked, I saw a flurry of confused and angry posts on Twitter about how disappointing the graphics of this highly anticipated game looked. It got so bad that some users came out in defense of the devs. In a Twitter post , user Tom Henderson described how GTA 6 was far enough away from its potential release window not to need good graphics. The amount of people saying that GTA 6 looks terrible is actually frightening. You're looking at a game build that's over a year old and won't be released for another what, 2 years? September 18, 2022 See more

At the end of the day, while these leaks gave some a better idea of what to expect from the game, the biggest impact I saw was simply making people frustrated or worried about the future of GTA.

No developer wants its game to start with that kind of rhetoric. So no matter what happens in the future, Ill be closing my eyes and ears until the devs feel ready enough to give out more information on GTA 6 , no matter how excited I am for this game to release. Games like GTA to play while waiting for GTA 6



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