{"id":92635,"date":"2026-11-05T09:13:02","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T14:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92635"},"modified":"2026-11-05T09:37:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T14:37:50","slug":"gta-6-boss-talks-the-games-budget-and-calls-out-a-high-profile-game-for-releasing-in-a-rough-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92635","title":{"rendered":"GTA 6 Boss Talks The Game\u2019s Budget And Calls Out A \u201cHigh-Profile\u201d Game For Releasing In A Rough State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Grand Theft Auto 6<\/a> is the biggest game that Rockstar Games has ever made, and it was no doubt very expensive to produce. But just how much did it cost? We know it’s not $1.5 billion<\/a>, but Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has now reacted to the discussion around the game’s development costs.<\/p>\n

He told The Wall Street Journal<\/a>, “It was expensive and it took a long time.”<\/p>\n

The game has been in development for years, and was delayed multiple times. Zelnick said Take-Two’s mission is to “make the best entertainment on Earth,” and this takes time.<\/p>\n

“Our strategy is to be the most creative, the most innovative, and the most efficient. Our cultural tenets are seek excellence in everything we do, work together as a team, and be kind. That approach sometimes is, in fact, really expensive,” the executive said. “The good news is that we have a P&L and a balance sheet that supports that. And if we get it right–we don’t always–but if we get it right, it actually pays for itself and then some.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=klc0fQmAL6k <\/p>\n

Everyone expects GTA 6 to be a huge commercial success, but Zelnick said in the interview that he will not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grand Theft Auto 6 is the biggest game that Rockstar Games has ever made, and it was no doubt very expensive to produce. But just how much did it cost? We know it’s not $1.5 billion, but Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has now reacted to the discussion around the game’s development costs. He told The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":92637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92638,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92635\/revisions\/92638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}