Take-Two: New GTA every two years would degrade series value

Any game that has forced annual release dates should not make any money.

call of duty every year .......people complain (bah! same graphic same crap) AND YET people still BUY.....this is so call :)

And no PC version would degrade series value forever.

TAKE 2 and Rockstar are the saving grace to the gaming industry right now.

Only if EA, Activision, Ubisoft and Capcom would follow suit

Finally a developer who gets it. If Ubisoft had done this with Assassin's Creed instead of milking the crap out of it after AC2 then I wouldn't have sworn off the franchise after AC3.

thank you for not oversaturating the market

That was deep.

The game is sounding great, Just make sure you have AA on pc for Christ sake!

Thank you Take Two. EA and Activision could learn a thing or two from them.

I whole heartedly agree, and I think Take Two is one of the few decent publishers out there.

They recognize the market value GTA holds and know better than to classify it amongst the unsavoury rabble of games like CoD, BF, and AC, which, although they are great games in their own ways, simply don't have that strong flair a GTA game has, they merely mimic it as best as they can.

Think about, almsot every mainline GTA game released since GTA3 has set a new standard for other games to follow, not necessarily even just in the Open World games genre.

GTA is just one of those franchises that tower above, it's the Mario of the 2000's.

I love you Take-Two

Now if only EA, Activision and Ubisoft would learn...

Still far from Half Life...

If Rockstar was a actual person I'd marry them. Gender doesn't matter.

I <3 R*

Well I can understand how releasing every two years can cause the game to degrade.  I'm still playing GTA IV two years after I purchased it.  V looks great.

look at guitar hero.

If they polished up Liberty & Vice City stories for XBLA, PSN & Steam that would be welcome as a way to fill in the gaps between the new games.

Seems really obvious but not many publishers understand that unfortunately.

no shit, would it? really?

This game looks amazing, lets hope it wont be butchered like most other series.

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It's just a better product and demands more time.  And if gamers didn't act like drug addicts when they buy certain products, like every first person shooter of recent years, the losses would force innovation in other areas as well.  Perhaps NOT buying a $15 map pack that one year would have saved everyone some money, or NOT buying a season DLC pass worth $20 that gives you maybe half its worth by season's end.

Ubisoft learn something from Rockstar , milking the once great Assassins creed series.

Are you reading this EA?  Maybe that's why Dead Space, Crysis, Dragon Age and Mass Effect are all suffering. 

hmm , I was just thinking that AGENT should be released every 10 years !

I know this post is old , but , I seen the word "degrade" ? and was wondering , what is the future ? I call the future NOW ! nobody in the world is going to change their minds knowing what is and what could or should be ! everyone I know looks forward to R* games being GTA or whatever ? and I don't know everyone else , but , I venture to say they do too !

Just ignore the bodies! Can't wait for this game!

U know this is going to be delayed til holiday when the new consoles come out. Don't know why they do this stuff.

Listen well, Activision.

(@ mainly Sip & Zevv who are prob the same person on diff accs)  San Andreas is a work of art, one of teh most epic games ever made.  Huge world and tons to do in it.  Tired of traveling slow?  Grab a nitrous sports car, a helicopter, or even a jet.  When you get where you going you can skydive into your location.  Once there grab a racing motorcycle/hijack a decent car/etc/etc/etc.  Limitless possibilities...  GTA: SA IS one of the best games still.  GTA IV was also a great game, had my complaints, but still great.  I dont mean good, i mean great.    SipahSalar  &  Zevvion  you two are obviously very old, and not at all creative.  You guys should shut your filthy mouths.   :}

This guy is obviously oblivious to the fact that every game they have released after Vice City HAS actually degraded the franchise. So I don't get what are they being so cautious about.

I don't want a LARGER world, I want a richer world. Row after row of shops, signs etc you can't really do anything with is BORing. Stifling controls are boring. Awkwardly trying to move from GTA theatrics to "realistic" characters, for now, results in boring.

I don't necessarily want 100 hours of meandering...a few dozen hours and even "just" 20 square kilometres chock-full of activity would be a LOT more interesting...

As much as I dislike the GTA series after Vice City, I do respect Take Two for giving freedom of creativity to most of the guys they publish for. 

It's kind of weird, but maybe they are my favorite publisher even though most of their games don't appeal to me? 

I have a feeling this game is going to restore my faith in gaming as a whole

Every company should take as much time as needed to release a quality game not "a game". So if 5 or 10 years are needed for an epic gta, then 5 or 10 years it is. 

Also ,BUY the game to support developers.

sorry for my bad english   

Quantity -> Quality is the state of the industry right now. Unless it's released by EA then it's shit regardless.

hmm do we have to play five different characters?? why? that is an awful idea, it makes the relationship games of Gta 4 look like a good idea!!

News Flash Rockstar we play games because we like the suspension of disbelief  and actually become our characters ( unlike in movies where we see ourselves as third parties,), playing five different people is going to spoil all that, and make the game feel like  some soap opera. I knew the series was running out of steam when they gave us GTA 4, it was no way near the product San Andreas  was and had even lost all the charm of Vice city.

A company that actually values quality over quantity in our modern times, stands up and claps in ovation. please take note EA. 

P.D cut the DRM bullshit already also.

That is a company that does not want to follow Activation.  *stands up and claps*

We have to remember to take all those size quotes with a grain of salt.

All they have to do to double the playable volume of a game is double the height of the SKYBOX.

Not to mention what is going to inhabit all this supposed "space"?

I would  prefer a 2004 San Andreas that has 55%  interiors and four times as many places you can go to start an event added(be it mission/storyline/whatever) than a big wasteland of hollow rectangles plastered with a high-res texture and cheeky signage.

new gta every two years challenge for you R*

i have so much respect for R*

It's really sad that someone has to explain this to industry professionals.

We had all the evidence we needed with Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero.

Capcom, EA, Activision are the worst and added to this list Ubisoft with the AC series.  Quality will always beat Quantity.  These companies I mention will never get it as long as fanboys keep support them.  They will never stop miking the series. 

EA's official response: Spending more time making games to ensure quality?  You'll never make money that way.  You can't be profitable giving gamers what they want, you have to blame them for all the money you didn't make.