While GTA VI is on everyone's lips, Rockstar could also prepare Red Dead Redemption 3 discreetly.
If the project seems inevitable given the license's popularity, an employee's LinkedIn profile might have spilled the beans.
Red Dead Redemption 3 in development?
Rockstar is in the news right now, but not for the right reasons. For good reason, GTA Trilogy has been in turmoil since its launch: PC version withdrawn from sale on the publisher's store or graphic problems, the ports have suffered many criticisms. However, the name of the publisher returns at the beginning of the week for a completely different reason: Red Dead Redemption 3.
An employee of Rockstar Games, serving as lead AI and gameplay programmer, mentions in his profile that he has "two years of experience in managing the team in charge of artificial intelligence vehicles during the development of RDR 3 and other projects”. If the Web quickly panicked, it was obviously only a typo since he has since corrected his description by “Red Dead Redemption 2”.
The hypothesis of a blunder cannot be excluded and Rockstar could just as well be working on a new opus in parallel with GTA VI. Especially since it is hard to imagine the firm with the star abandoning a license sold at 60 million copies.
Rockstar is not done with the license
Strauss Zelnick's latest statements also abound in this direction. During the Jefferies Virtual Global Interactive Entertainment conference, the CEO of Take Two made it clear that his company intended to capitalize on its favorite sagas, including GTA and Red Dead Redemption, for a long time to come.
“As long as it's really, really great, it will continue. I just saw the new James Bond and it was great, you wish all franchises were like that. No matter the medium of entertainment, there are very few licenses that fall into this category, but they do exist. I think GTA, Red Dead and NBA are part of it and will continue to exist”.
Zelnick explains that it is however necessary to allow a rest period between each game in order to create demand around these titles and make their release a special event. A marketing strategy that had paid off for Red Dead Redemption 2, whose enthusiasm was such that the game had generated $ 725 million just the weekend of its launch. The wait before an RDR 3 should therefore still be long, especially since Rockstar is focused on GTA VI which is slow to be announced, but which could show up by the end of the year according to certain rumors.
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