Red Dead Redemption Sequel Will Come

<p>The CEO of Take-Two Strauss Zelnick had a lot to say this week about certain games of the past&period; Zelnick spoke this week at the Cowen and Company analyst conference&comma; he went on to express that the <em>Red Dead Redemption<&sol;em> brand can be a &&num;8220&semi;permanent franchise&&num;8221&semi; that can follow with other franchises such as <em>Grand Theft Auto<&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This came up from a question that was asked about why Take-Two was apparently so &&num;8220&semi;selective&&num;8221&semi; about their releases rather than crowding the market&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>The risk of just &lbrack;releasing more games&rsqb; is that you end up just bulking up your release schedule and that isn&&num;8217&semi;t really what consumers want&period; Consumers want better&comma; not more&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Zelnick said&period; &&num;8220&semi;So our selective approach&comma; which we&&num;8217&semi;ve taken since &&num;8217&semi;07 I think has paid off&period; Now&comma; we have gotten more by taking that approach&semi; we&&num;8217&semi;ve launched one new successful franchise every year and I would like to keep doing that particularly because I talk about permanent franchises&comma; but not everything is going to be a permanent franchise&period; Some of our great franchises eventually will lose their luster and some will hopefully be permanent&period;&&num;8221&semi; &&num;8211&semi; Strauss Zelnick&comma; Take-Two CEO<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>This wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t be a stretch considering that <em>Red Dead Redemption<&sol;em> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gamespot&period;com&sol;articles&sol;red-dead-redemption-sells-13m-nba-2k12-hits-4m&sol;1100-6349683&sol;">sold<&sol;a> 13 million copies&comma; and although we have yet to receive an official announcement of a <em>Red Dead<&sol;em> sequel&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s becoming pretty much inevitable at this point&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Take-Two recently announced that <em>Grand Theft Auto 5<&sol;em> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;forbes&period;com&sol;sites&sol;davidthier&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;13&sol;grand-theft-auto-5-has-sold-nearly-2-billion-at-retail&sol;">sold<&sol;a> 33 million copies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gamespot&period;com&sol;articles&sol;another-reason-to-believe-red-dead-redemption-2-is-happening&sol;1100-6419966&sol;">GameSpot<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;