Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick wants to increase the number of games released and diversify them. At the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom 2020 conference in San Francisco, he reiterated his desire to increase investment in the production of the company's projects for the next generation of consoles.
“We said we're making the largest investment in manufacturing in our history, and that will be expressed over the next five years,” Zelnick said. “We also said that our annual goal is to not only have this foundation of a large catalog, major releases and game services, but also to add new cutting-edge releases every year.”
By “advanced releases,” he means new games, but not all of them will necessarily be based on new intellectual property (although the publisher also plans to increase its number). So, in the depths of 2K Games for a long time development of the next BioShock.
"We're investing more and more, so we'll soon get to the point where we have a pretty robust release schedule of new games in addition to our catalog, service games and annual releases," Zelnick said.
But Take-Two Interactive is also interested in producing mobile projects and games from independent developers. “We're focused on building our mobile business, where we're still a relatively small player,” Zelnick said. “We do this through the mobile publishing label Social Point, which has five successful games.” The CEO of Take-Two Interactive cited the shareware WWE Supercard, which has more than 20 million downloads, as an example of a successful mobile project.
As for games from independent developers, they are handled by the publishing division Private Division. The company partners with small studios to help them distribute and finance their projects. Private Division's portfolio of successful releases includes the space simulator Kerbal Space Program and the role-playing shooter .
Source: 3dnews.ru