GTA 5: Take-Two reveal fans are in for a long wait for a GTA Online sequel

GTA 5 will not be getting a sequel soon from Rockstar

GTA 5 fans who have gotten a taste for GTA Online are looking at a long wait time for a sequel, Rockstar's parent company, Take-Two has revealed.

 

Some of Take-Two's biggest franchises fail to see a launch every year, creating long wait times for fans eager to play the next instalment.

Rockstar has already revealed that the success of GTA Online has changed how the development team now work with GTA 5 and is surely a sign for the future that the next title could hinge heavily on a multiplayer mode.

However, unlike the Call of Duty franchise and Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed, games such as Red Dead Redemption and GTA 5 are not released every year, posing the question of why?

 



GTA Online continues to be supported by Rockstar



Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick spoke on the subject, telling the MKM Partners Investor Day in New York City: "The market asks us, 'Why don't you annualize your titles?' We think with the non-sports titles, we are better served to create anticipation and demand.

"On the one hand to rest the title and on the other hand to have the highest quality in the market, which takes time. You can't do that annually."

"What we would like to do is be able to have enough hit intellectual properties in any given year, whether we have Title A or Title B, is not the issue.

 

"We'll have a handful of really great franchises and new intellectual properties that together really have the economic impact of an annualized business without the detriments of an annualized business."

Zelnick continues to refer to the GTA and Red Dead games as "permanent" franchises, meaning fans don't have to worry that they'll be disappearing of shelves completely.

Zelnick summed it up last year, saying: "I pretty much know the ones that I can assure you are permanent.

"It's obvious that GTA is a permanent franchise as long as we keep delivering this incredible quality; it seems quite obvious that Red Dead is a permanent franchise, again with the same caveat, or Borderlands, for example, and NBA and others.

"But not everything is going to be a permanent franchise. We can do very well even if it's not."

 

GTA 5 fans can rely on a long development cycle from Rockstar