Still no GTA 6 PC announcement, however

Asked how Take-Two work out a game’s release timing byCNBC, Zelnick commented that “there are elements that you can actually measure, for example the number of bugs in a title, and every one of us will make sure we have as few bugs as possible before we launch.

“However, in the case of an extraordinary title, for which there are extraordinary expectations, it’s not really about bugs,” he went on. “It’s about creating an experience that no one’s seen before, and Rockstar Games seeks perfection in what they do. And perfection is indeed hard to measure, it really is more subjective than objective.”

“Well, there is slippage in the industry and we’re not immune from that,” Zelnick replied. “However, we narrowed the timing because we are highly confident in that timing.”

“The audience is going to show up if you have great properties, so we just have to make sure to be on an array of platforms,” he said, viaGamesradar. “If one platform diminishes in value, there’s always another one.

“We’re seeing great growth in PC right now, for example. I have been of the view that open formats would continue to grow and PC is an open format. I do think PC will continue to be a more and more important part of the console business going forward, and that isn’t complicated for us to support at all. So the bottom line is, we are selective about which platforms we support. We make the tech work when we can make it work, as long as the audience is big enough to make that worthwhile.”

If I had been present during that CNBC interview, I would have asked Zelnick what he thinks of the fact thatGTA 5players are obsessively trying to predict the next GTA 6 marketing beatbased on the phases of the moon. This has blown up again on reddit lately because somebody’s realised that the Tom Petty song from the GTA 6 trailer, above, has the words “wait for the moon” in it.

I would have asked about this in the few seconds before somebody spotted the rando Britisher lurking behind the green screen and phoned security. “TELL ME ABOUT THE MOON, STRAUSS,” I would have bellowed, as huge men in tuxedos dragged me away into an unmarked van.