Yesterday, Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar Video games introduced that Pink Lifeless Redemption and zombie add-on Undead Nightmare is being ported to Nintendo Change and PlayStation 4 on Aug. 17.
And whereas which will have been trigger for celebration for a lot of within the fanbase, others took challenge with its $50 value level, particularly contemplating it’s lacking multiplayer and a PC launch. Plus, it’s already playable on the Xbox Sequence X in 4k and, because of Xbox Sequence X/S’ backwards compatibility, has been accessible on Microsoft platforms for years.
After right this moment’s Take-Two earnings name, IGN requested CEO Strauss Zelnick why they priced the newly introduced port the way in which they did, particularly given the backwards compatibility scenario for Xbox.
“That is simply what we consider is the commercially correct value for it,” Zelnick responded.
Take-Two’s EVP of Finance, Hannah Sage, additionally identified that the port isn’t simply the Pink Lifeless base recreation, but in addition Undead Nightmare. When requested if Undead Nightmare was the explanation for its $50 value, Zelnick mentioned the add-on “was an important standalone recreation in its personal proper when it was initially launched, so we really feel prefer it’s an important bundle for the primary time, and definitely an important worth for shoppers.”
IGN did ask him a couple of potential PC launch, however Zelnick left it obscure, saying he leaves recreation launch bulletins as much as the builders. Pressed additional in regards to the logic behind ports vs. remasters vs. remakes, Zelnick mentioned:
“It relies on the imaginative and prescient that the inventive groups have for a title, and within the absence of getting a strong imaginative and prescient, for one thing that we’d do with a title, we’d carry it in its authentic type, we have performed that, and in sure situations we’d remaster or remake, so it actually relies on the title and the way the label feels about it, the platform, and what we expect the chance is for shoppers.”
Alex Stedman is a Senior Information Editor with IGN, overseeing leisure reporting. When she’s not writing or modifying, you’ll find her studying fantasy novels or taking part in Dungeons & Dragons.