ABOUT GTA 5 :-GTA V launched in September 2013 on Sony's PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360. These consoles were near the end of their life cycles, and had built up large installed bases, which made it the ideal time to release a high-profile title that could attract a large player base, even though next-gen consoles were also debuting that year.
Grand Theft Auto V sold over 11 million units in its first 24 hours on the market, according to Guinness World Records. The game generated over $1 billion in revenue within its first three days on the market. By the middle of 2014, the title had shipped over 34 million copies across just the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms,. Subsequently, many players double-dipped and bought the updated versions that later shipped for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
Take-Two is surely keenly aware of this dynamic, and it has a huge incentive to attempt to replicate it.
Grand Theft Auto is an industry-defining franchise
Microsoft and Sony are expected to launch new consoles in the fourth quarter of 2020. Rather than releasing a new entry in its marquee franchise to take advantage of excitement for those high-tech, next-generation platforms, Take-Two would be better served by releasing it on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 as these platforms are reaching maturity and their successors are just hitting the market.
It will take years for consumers to buy enough next-gen consoles to give them the installed base of roughly 150 million units that PlayStation 4 and Xbox One now combine for. Grand Theft Auto V served as a "last hurrah" of sorts for the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360. Take-Two shareholders should hope that the company positions GTA VI to play a similar role on the current platforms.
Of course, rushing the game to market in order to make an arbitrary release date wouldn't be a smart move. GTA V still regularly shows up on the lists of best-selling games in North America and Europe, and a huge part of that is down to it being high quality and packed with content. Still, if Grand Theft Auto VI launches late next year, it will have been seven years since the debut of the series' last mainline installment. That ought to be enough time for developers to have cooked up a suitable successor.
GTA VI will be a hit no matter what, but timing is key
Shareholders don't need to worry about Take-Two missing out on the sales that will be driven by excitement over the next generation of consoles. It will almost certainly have its next NBA 2K franchise installment available for the new PlayStation and Xbox consoles when they launch, and the update of the basketball game will likely be a bestseller on both platforms. Take-Two could also launch an updated version of Red Dead Redemption 2 for the new platforms.
Investors should hope that the company keeps Grand Theft Auto VI exclusive to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One for roughly a year in order to allow the game to rack up substantial sales on those platforms before it goes on to be a big hit on next-generation consoles. The success of GTA VI won't be dependent on this strategy, but it could add tens of millions of lifetime unit sales for the game and be a major catalyst for Take-Two stock.
ABOUT CLOUD GAMING :-“Cloud gaming” has been a tech buzzword for years. The idea is that we’ll no longer need gaming PCs or consoles with powerful graphics hardware. All the heavy lifting will be done “in the cloud.”
Cloud gaming has much in common with streaming videos. Essentially, the cloud-gaming server runs a game and streams a video of the gameplay to you. Your keyboard, mouse, and controller input actions are sent over the network to the cloud gaming server.
The remote server does all the heavy work, while your computer just receives streaming video (and audio) and sends input commands. Essentially, cloud gaming is like a streaming video service, but interactive.
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