Take-Two on the possibility of more Switch games, impressed with systems growth

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@Miyamotoo: As I said in my post, no GTA game has been made by another studio outside of Rockstar. Ok, the mobile ports were made by an external studio, but those are mobile ports, and very, very few studios take care of them.

So, with the mobile games out of the way, the fact that each and every GTA game ever made has been developed by Rockstar marks a pattern, and I don't see why Rockstar would change that now. Couple that with the troubles they're having with RDR 2, a project I think they're more interested in than in making another GTA port (an interest that I'm sure Take Two shares as RDR 2 will make them a lot more money than the Switch port), and I honestly don't see why they would they be working on anything else right now.

And since they've had problems with the development of that game since at last May'17, when they announced the first delay, and given how important the game is for Rockstar and Take Two, it makes sense for them to use all the available help (aka. studios) they can, specially if they also helped when making the previous games.

Also, since we know that the LA Noire remaster was done by an external studio, Virtuos Games, your assumption that the Switch GTA V port rumor must be true because it was leaked by the same guy that leaked the LA Noire game becomes a flawed one, because he could get one info from Virtuos and guess the other. There's no way for us to say the contrary.

I know that won't make you change your mind, nor anything you post will change mine either, but I think we can agree that if we don't know anything about this rumored GTA Switch port by the end of E3, then it's highly unlikely that it will ever happen.

 

@Jumpin: If I've ever given the impression of playing with you, please accept my apologies because that has never been my intention. I simply made a comment expressing my concerns about those kinds of claims, and then replied to your comments in this dialoge we're having.

I've never said that Wii had no third party games, only that the statement of that Take Two executive reminded me of what happened then, when many studios expressed their admiration and how impressed they were with the platform, only to later not fulfill their promises. Had he said something concrete, even a simple "we'll tell more soon" or something like that, then I would have remained quiet.

Because despite the unnecessary games you've listed, and the ones you haven't, it's quite clear that Wii recieved less support than the other platforms, either because its lack of power or because publihers/developers didn't bother with it. Or are you going to deny that?

And of course PS2/Xbox port don't count! Why should Wii owners have to deal, for example, with last gen FIFAs with old gameplay instead of new games with the improvements that were introduced for the other versions? Now, I know not all of them could be translated because the weaker CPU, but there are other tweaks that could have been introduced without much trouble.

As for my "philosophic" statement, there's no fallacy in here. We're not talking about if the Earth is flat or not, we're talking about if a platform recieved the same/similar support as others and if the statements from executives can be trusted or not (hence my actions instead of words line in my first post of this thread), and in this case we can have different opinions because we can have different expectations. It's the half full/half empty glass scenario, with you being the optimistic one.

And don't worry, you didn't sound like a dick. Sometimes I can sound like one despite that not being my intention.