Take-Two boss says Grand Theft Auto games rake in so much money, making a GTA movie isn't even worth the hassle
If Take-Two financed a film or series itself, Zelnick explained, it would probably do pretty well on it financially as long as the show in question was a success—but the odds of that happening aren't great. "[Films and television are] very difficult businesses," Zelnick said. "I've been in them successfully. They're super challenging. They're not what we do. We'd much prefer the risk/reward profile of the business we're in."
To put it in context, he said Mattel's licensing profits on the Barbie movie, which he described as an "extraordinary hit," are expected to be about $125 million. That's not nothing, but Zelnick said licensing fees Take-Two would earn on a GTA film would be "a fraction" of what it makes on its games (Take-Two reported net revenues of $1.3 billion in its most recent quarter, in case you were curious), and that's only if the film is a success—which, again, isn't likely.
>a movie about games that literally just rip off movies
People that want a GTA movie are just as fricking moronic as people that want a Red Dead Redemption movie. Go watch a crime movie, go watch a western. The frick is wrong with these people? Oh yeah, they're brainless homosexuals.
these are the same people who say every game would be better with multiplayer
see they like the games but they don't like the hassle of actually playing them and wish they could just watch someone play them
this used to be a huge "industry" on youtube before they started demonetizing "using other people's IP."
"Let's Plays" was a cancer era.
everything after 2007 has been cancer bruh
>a cancer era.
They haven't gone anywhere, they just live stream them now instead of cutting them up and uploading them in 10 minute chunks
Maybe Mattel saw the Barbie movie as an advertising more than a product itself, so the profit is just a plus.
>10 year old game still making 1.3 billion a quarter
WTF, that's over billion this year alone
it sold like 10 million maybe 20 million more copies over last year
190 million total
Think how many boys enter middle school every year. That's how these games keep generating sales.
GTA online is one of the biggest money makers in the business. I know people who have spent thousands of dollars buying dumb shit for their GTA characters.
>I know people who have spent thousands of dollars buying dumb shit for their GTA characters
and I've been trying to get banned for the last year with blatant cheating by punching people as a chimp
that's Take-Two's revenue not GTA's
game design has evolved so much further than drive from point A to B shoots some bad guys then listen to car chatter on the way back
i have no fricking clue why people still buy this game so much. there are better racing games so it cant be for the cars, there are better third person shooters so it cant be that
do people just want those things but mediocre and in one package?
>game design has evolved so much further than drive from point A to B shoots some bad guys then listen to car chatter on the way back
examples?
Hyper Demon is a masterpiece and 1000x more rewarding to play and get better at than GTA
They're by far the best sandbox games
they were when they had jetpacks and cheat codes
realism killed the series
Most people play GTA for the online at this point
No one gives a shit about the single player
It's a game that allows you to mow down pedestrians, frick and murder hookers, barricade in a burger shop or tattoo parlor and have a showdown with the cops or have a nightdrive or a mountain drive or a desert drive or a helicopter flight to a pretty good selection of music, all in a pretty nice and busy simulation of a city. The missions are just there so you don't get bored with the intoxicating freedom of the thing
Rockstar is now mostly run by feminists so all those things have been removed
Because it's the best sandbox game series there is?
I do not know another game series that has as much content as well as replayability.
I can play any GTA decades from now and still have fun.
Driver was always the better series
It's true. Not only would it bomb, the games simply make more. Hollywood is irrelevant and all those "creative" writers in Hollywood should make games instead.
Just watch a heist movie
They should do it Cloud Atlas style where 6 protagonists over different cities and decades have their own story but some effect on each other
Filmmakers could only dream of the nickel and diming that the gaming industry gets away with. GTA's sales don't even matter any more when people are buy the in-game virtual money hand over fist.
Don't give them any ideas, within a few years you'll be able to buy in movie currency to customise your capeshit by unlocking new costumes, weapons etc. Using the Marvel app on your phone, you can even receive trophies and unique perks! All with a real-time leaderboard so you can complete against the rest of the world! ARE YOU THE GREATEST MARVEL FAN?
the vidya industry surpassed the movie industry in revenue long ago so not surprising in the slightest
they are selling the new nba 2k for 70$ retail price + 100$ virtual currency to play online + 30$ battlepass
how can movies compete
Just imagine being TakeTwo. Imagine how liberating it must feel to know that:
>two of your products (NBA2K and GTA Online) are 0-effort money printers, your finances are pretty much great depression proof
>GTA VI will almost certainly become the biggest game ever, and will print money for a decade+ after release like V has
but.....they could make even more money with a gta movie!. a gta movie would be like a more comedic fast and furious, it could go on for like 10 sequels
>GTAO makes well over a billion dollars a year passively
>no overheads but getting some pajeets to model a couple of new cars or tshirts every month
>still won't pay for dedicated servers, letting modders just destroy the game for anyone else
This is why I stopped playing. But I was never a paypig anyway so I understand why Rockstar doesn't care about me.