{"id":93052,"date":"2026-11-13T16:02:34","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T21:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=93052"},"modified":"2026-11-13T16:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T21:37:25","slug":"gta-6-owner-take-two-is-not-interested-in-selling-itself-after-ea-goes-private-for-55-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=93052","title":{"rendered":"GTA 6 Owner Take-Two Is Not Interested In Selling Itself After EA Goes Private For $55 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Recently, the gaming giant Electronic Arts was taken private in a $55 billion sale to an investor consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. Could GTA 6<\/a> owner Take-Two be the next big company that gets acquired? Don’t bet on it, CEO Strauss Zelnick says. <\/p>\n

Speaking to David Rubenstein<\/a>, Zelnick said Take-Two’s business results have proven that it “can do very well as an independent company.”<\/p>\n

He said Take-Two’s business is already “at scale” and healthy enough financially with a “terrific balance sheet,” as he put it. <\/p>\n

“We are not in a place where we need to be part of a bigger organization to be competitive. And in the entertainment business, scale matters,” he said.<\/p>\n

Zelnick said companies that do less than a billion in annual revenue might have issues with developing, marketing, and distributing games at scale. Not only that, but companies that don’t generate a lot of money might not be able to survive the realities of the creative business, in which sometimes your product flops. <\/p>\n

“But once you’re over a billion dollars in annual revenue, and we’re way beyond that point. Our guidance is $8 billion to $8.2 billion this fiscal year, additional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, the gaming giant Electronic Arts was taken private in a $55 billion sale to an investor consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. Could GTA 6 owner Take-Two be the next big company that gets acquired? Don’t bet on it, CEO Strauss Zelnick says. Speaking to David Rubenstein, Zelnick said Take-Two’s business results…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":93054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93052","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\/93052"}],"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=93052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93055,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93052\/revisions\/93055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}