Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick has defended Rockstar Video games’ determination to launch Grand Theft Auto 6 and not using a bodily sport disc, saying disc releases for main titles not “make sense for the buyer.” GTA 6 is likely one of the extremely anticipated video games that may launch on November 19, 2026, in digital type, whereas bodily retail bins will embrace a obtain code as an alternative of a sport disc. Talking throughout Take-Two’s first-quarter FY2027 earnings name, Strauss Zelnick stated the corporate’s enterprise is now “properly over” 90% digitally distributed. “It is already a digital enterprise,” he stated. “So, in sure cases, particularly if it is a massive sport, discs do not actually make sense for the buyer.”He additional added that almost all trendy video games already require gamers to connect with the web.“Additionally, in most cases, you must register on-line to play anyhow. So, when you’re already related, who cares when you obtain digitally. It is all the identical and it is rather more handy. That is the place the world goes in our opinion, and I feel Sony understands that. We actually perceive that.”
Bodily editions of video games will nonetheless exist: Take-Two Interactive CEO
Zelnick stated the shift to digital doesn’t imply bodily editions will disappear fully.“It doesn’t suggest that we can’t have bodily editions now, and I am positive that we’ll, in the identical approach that there is nonetheless vinyl within the recorded music enterprise. However in different cases, it simply will not make sense,” he stated. Zelnick’s feedback got here after a query about Sony’s reported plan to cease producing bodily sport discs by 2028.
Take-Two Interactive CEO: Disc model of GTA 6 may come
In an interview with IGN after the earnings name, Zelnick stated a disc model of Grand Theft Auto 6 might nonetheless be launched later. “I would not rule out something at this stage of the sport. What we have introduced to date is what we’re doing in the mean time, however we’re at all times open minded,” he stated.Zelnick additionally stated Rockstar’s determination was not pushed by issues about sport leaks and that he doesn’t count on the digital-first launch to harm Take-Two’s enterprise.
