PS4/XBox One Rockstar Game Coming By March 2015! What Are You Hoping For?
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Stinky Diver
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Believe it when I see it. Rockstar and dates never get along the first time.
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New Rockstar game due before March 2015 – but what is it?
Publisher Take-Two confirmed the Grand Theft Auto developer has a new title due this fiscal year. Here are six possibilities
Grand Theft Auto 5 was a huge success for Take-Two, shifting 33m copies. But how will Rockstar follow it?
First, the facts. The publisher Take-Two revealed its fourth-quarter financial results on Tuesday, beating analysts’ estimates with $233m (£139m) in sales but reporting a net loss for the period of $30.8m. However, revenue for the whole of fiscal 2014 hit an impressive $2.351bn, double the previous year.
This was thanks in no small part to the arrival of Grand Theft Auto 5. Released by Take-Two’s subsidiary Rockstar Games in September, the game has sold 33m copies to retailers, becoming one of the biggest entertainment launches of all time.
The most exciting news for gamers, however, was that Rockstar will release a game in this financial year, which means before the end of March 2015. Take-Two wouldn’t be drawn on what it will be, or whether there will be an announcement at E3 – although Rockstar rarely attends that event.
So what is it? Naturally, speculation is already rife. Knowing the way that Rockstar tends to reveal major new titles – through a structured period of hands-off and hands-on demos over many months – we should perhaps not expect anything too Earth-shattering. But here are the possibilities currently being touted:
Red Dead Redemption 2
Red Dead Redemption – are we heading back to the wild west?
The western epic was a hit for Rockstar in 2010, selling more than 12m copies and garnering rave reviews. Take-Two’s CEO, Strauss Zelnick,mentioned Red Dead in an investor call last year when talking about his aim to establish “permanent franchises”, so it’s clearly in development. But we’d expect much more fanfare in the runup to release. GTA 5, for example, was officially announced in October 2011, almost two years before the launch date.
Agent
Agent – Rockstar’s mysterious conspiracy
Revealed (rather precipitously it turns out) as a PlayStation 3 exclusive by Sony in 2009, this mysterious Rockstar North project is apparently a 70s-based conspiracy thriller inspired by movies like The Parallax View and The China Syndrome.
Little has been said on the game since then, and obviously the studio has been sidetracked by GTA 5. However, Rockstar updated the trademark last year, so an announcement could be imminent – probably as a PS4 exclusive. Could Sony have this as the ace up its sleeve for E3 2014? Even if it has, a release in late 2014 is unlikely.
Bully 2
Bully – has Rockstar got a secret behind the bike sheds?
While not a huge financial hit, the 2006 PlayStation 2 title Bully garnered a dedicated fanbase with its anarchic study of life in a New England boarding school.
Filled with offbeat missions, interesting characters and a witty script the game sold in the low millions, and in June 2012 Rockstar assured gamers that a sequel was possible. A month later, however, the studio responsible for the game, Rockstar Vancouver, was closed.
Rockstar Toronto could take up the project, however, and again the trademark has been updated within the last year. Another potential candidate, then, but if any Rockstar game needs a long marketing leadup to remind mainstream gamers what it's all about, it's this one.
Something brand new
Rockstar hasn’t announced a new intellectual property for a long time, so there’s always a chance those cheeky Houser brothers will spring a surprise on everyone. Let's face it, though, with less than 10 months before release it would have to be a smaller project. And Rockstar doesn’t do small. Unless you include Table Tennis.
Grand Theft Auto 5 on PC or Xbox One and PS4
A visually enhanced version of GTA 5, complete with all the additional GTA Online content and a few little extras, is the most likely scenario. Rockstar has often released PC versions of its console games months after release or produced new-generation console versions with extra content – Bully: Scholarship Edition on Xbox 360 and Wii, for example. This is the odds-on favourite for us.
Red Dead Redemption on PC
Rumours of this conversion have been bubbling under for four years, butrecently eagle-eyed gamers noticed a listing on a Microsoft PC compatibility site mentioning Red Dead. This would be slightly more low-key than a GTA 5 update, but still a welcome announcement for PC owners, especially if those gorgeous visuals are updated for modern graphics cards.
New Rockstar game due before March 2015 – but what is it? | Technology | theguardian.com
Publisher Take-Two confirmed the Grand Theft Auto developer has a new title due this fiscal year. Here are six possibilities
Grand Theft Auto 5 was a huge success for Take-Two, shifting 33m copies. But how will Rockstar follow it?
First, the facts. The publisher Take-Two revealed its fourth-quarter financial results on Tuesday, beating analysts’ estimates with $233m (£139m) in sales but reporting a net loss for the period of $30.8m. However, revenue for the whole of fiscal 2014 hit an impressive $2.351bn, double the previous year.
This was thanks in no small part to the arrival of Grand Theft Auto 5. Released by Take-Two’s subsidiary Rockstar Games in September, the game has sold 33m copies to retailers, becoming one of the biggest entertainment launches of all time.
The most exciting news for gamers, however, was that Rockstar will release a game in this financial year, which means before the end of March 2015. Take-Two wouldn’t be drawn on what it will be, or whether there will be an announcement at E3 – although Rockstar rarely attends that event.
So what is it? Naturally, speculation is already rife. Knowing the way that Rockstar tends to reveal major new titles – through a structured period of hands-off and hands-on demos over many months – we should perhaps not expect anything too Earth-shattering. But here are the possibilities currently being touted:
Red Dead Redemption 2
Red Dead Redemption – are we heading back to the wild west?
The western epic was a hit for Rockstar in 2010, selling more than 12m copies and garnering rave reviews. Take-Two’s CEO, Strauss Zelnick,mentioned Red Dead in an investor call last year when talking about his aim to establish “permanent franchises”, so it’s clearly in development. But we’d expect much more fanfare in the runup to release. GTA 5, for example, was officially announced in October 2011, almost two years before the launch date.
Agent
Agent – Rockstar’s mysterious conspiracy
Revealed (rather precipitously it turns out) as a PlayStation 3 exclusive by Sony in 2009, this mysterious Rockstar North project is apparently a 70s-based conspiracy thriller inspired by movies like The Parallax View and The China Syndrome.
Little has been said on the game since then, and obviously the studio has been sidetracked by GTA 5. However, Rockstar updated the trademark last year, so an announcement could be imminent – probably as a PS4 exclusive. Could Sony have this as the ace up its sleeve for E3 2014? Even if it has, a release in late 2014 is unlikely.
Bully 2
Bully – has Rockstar got a secret behind the bike sheds?
While not a huge financial hit, the 2006 PlayStation 2 title Bully garnered a dedicated fanbase with its anarchic study of life in a New England boarding school.
Filled with offbeat missions, interesting characters and a witty script the game sold in the low millions, and in June 2012 Rockstar assured gamers that a sequel was possible. A month later, however, the studio responsible for the game, Rockstar Vancouver, was closed.
Rockstar Toronto could take up the project, however, and again the trademark has been updated within the last year. Another potential candidate, then, but if any Rockstar game needs a long marketing leadup to remind mainstream gamers what it's all about, it's this one.
Something brand new
Rockstar hasn’t announced a new intellectual property for a long time, so there’s always a chance those cheeky Houser brothers will spring a surprise on everyone. Let's face it, though, with less than 10 months before release it would have to be a smaller project. And Rockstar doesn’t do small. Unless you include Table Tennis.
Grand Theft Auto 5 on PC or Xbox One and PS4
A visually enhanced version of GTA 5, complete with all the additional GTA Online content and a few little extras, is the most likely scenario. Rockstar has often released PC versions of its console games months after release or produced new-generation console versions with extra content – Bully: Scholarship Edition on Xbox 360 and Wii, for example. This is the odds-on favourite for us.
Red Dead Redemption on PC
Rumours of this conversion have been bubbling under for four years, butrecently eagle-eyed gamers noticed a listing on a Microsoft PC compatibility site mentioning Red Dead. This would be slightly more low-key than a GTA 5 update, but still a welcome announcement for PC owners, especially if those gorgeous visuals are updated for modern graphics cards.
New Rockstar game due before March 2015 – but what is it? | Technology | theguardian.com
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GTA5 PS4/XB1 will be out before April 2015Rockstar's first PS4, Xbox One game coming before April 2015
By Samit Sarkar on May 13, 2014 at 7:00p @SamitSarkar
Rockstar Games is working on a PlayStation 4 and Xbox One title that is set to be released before April 2015, said Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick during an investor call today.
"Rockstar Games is hard at work on their upcoming lineup, and we're excited about what they have in store for the new generation of systems this fiscal year," said Zelnick. Take-Two is the parent company of Rockstar Games, and its 2015 fiscal year runs from April 1, 2014, through March 31, 2015.
The most recent major release from Rockstar Games was Rockstar North's Grand Theft Auto 5, which launched last September on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360; Rockstar has since shipped more than 33 million copies of the game. In the intervening months, Rockstar also released a mobile port of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on Android, Kindle Fire and Windows Phone.
Zelnick provided no further details on Rockstar's upcoming project, but the game in question could be a PlayStation 4 and Xbox One port of Grand Theft Auto 5. Take-Two announced today that the performance of that game, including digital revenue from Grand Theft Auto Online, helped lead to a record-high net revenue of $2.35 billion for the 2014 fiscal year.
Rockstar's first PS4, Xbox One game coming before April 2015 | Polygon
I can't speak on if other games will be, but GTA5 is a done deal guaranteed
The whole 64player count online was exposed in early code
They will make it worth the purchase to even people who bought it on PS3/360
These types of additions would guarantee another 10+mil copies sold.
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Uncle_Ruckus
We The North
Why keep the title of the release so secret though? They tryna keep the hype for E3?
Uncle_Ruckus
We The North
Anyhow they come back and say shyts been delayed like they did with the last GTA.
that was my shyt breh
Uncle_Ruckus
We The North
A sequel with guns, drugs and the hip-hop culture would sell millions.
beenz
Rap Guerilla
I bet its red dead redemption, cuz its been a LOOONNNGG time since it first came out. I know it won't be GTA. If I had a choice, I'd really really hope for it to be max payne 4.
Grand Eeezus Maxwell
"Time is when, God....lounge!!"
Manhunt, Midnight Club, or Red Dead
ORDER_66
I am The Wrench in all your plans....
Unless they was already working om it when ps4 dropped they probably got those dev kits early...
strike while the iron is hot my friend
Stinky Diver
attitude as bad as his odor
Coming 2015
I'm praying for Bully, but I'll also be content with a Red Dead sequel.