Take-Two Confirms Red Dead Redemption and Bioshock Part of Their Future

<p>Earlier this week&comma; Take-Two&&num;8217&semi;s CEO Strauss Zelnick was speaking at the Cowen and Company analyst conference&period; During the conference&comma; he was asked about the future of two of Take-Two&&num;8217&semi;s hottest franchises&period; Below are some of the quotes from Zelnick&&num;8217&semi;s response regarding Red Dead Redemption and Bioshock&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Regarding <em>Red Dead Redemption<&sol;em>&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I pretty much know the ones that I can assure you are permanent&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s obvious that GTA is a permanent franchise as long as we keep delivering this incredible quality&semi; it seems quite obvious that Red Dead is a permanent franchise&comma; again with the same caveat&comma; or Borderlands&comma; for example&comma; and NBA and others&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Zelnick&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>And comments related to the Bioshock franchise&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;We haven&&num;8217&semi;t given any color on how you should think about it yet except we do believe it&&num;8217&semi;s beloved&semi; we think it&&num;8217&semi;s important &lbrack;and&rsqb; certainly something that we&&num;8217&semi;re focused on&semi; something 2K Marin will be responsible for shepherding going forward&period; I don&&num;8217&semi;t want to say much else except to agree with you&period; I think there&&num;8217&semi;s a lot of upside in that franchise&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Zelnick said&period; &&num;8220&semi;It hasn&&num;8217&semi;t necessarily been realized yet&period; And the question for the future&comma; assuming we decide to answer the question&comma; would be &&num;8216&semi;How do you stay true to that creatively&quest;&&num;8217&semi;&semi; &&num;8216&semi;How do you do something exciting&quest;&&num;8217&semi;&semi; and &&num;8216&semi;How do you do expand the market&quest;&&num;8217&semi;&period; That would be the natural drill&period; We&&num;8217&semi;re starting from a good point on it&period; And certainly it&&num;8217&semi;s been a great piece of business for us&semi; it&&num;8217&semi;s been a profitable piece of business&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>While it is comforting to hear that both franchises will see the light of day again at some point&comma; there doesn&&num;8217&semi;t appear to be any imminent news regarding either franchise&period; It is probably a no-brainer to keep both franchises around as Red Dead Redemption was an instant classic which sold 13 million copies and Bioshock has been a corner stone of Take-Two for a long time&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;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">GameSpot<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;