GTA Trilogy has received a few patches since its dismal launch, but it remains below par as Rockstar works to resurrect it. Take-Two and Rockstar overlord Strauss Zelnick is fairly satisfied with the game, though, as he told investors that it’s “done just great” and while it had a “glitch in the beginning” that’s been “resolved”.
Here’s what he said as part of an interview with CNBC, following the stock market’s negative reaction to its $12.7 billion acquisition of Zynga: “With regards to the GTA Trilogy, that was actually not a new title, [but] was a remaster of pre-existing titles. We did have a glitch in the beginning, that glitch was resolved. And the title has done just great for the company.”
GTA Trilogy launched with a heap of bugs and issues, including an inconsistent framerate – even on the powerful PlayStation 5 – and saw some strange graphical effects, like incredibly intrusive rain. Rockstar apologised for the state of the title at launch, and has pledged updates, but they’re proving slow to materialise. At least the title hit its sales projections, though, right?
[source cnbc.com, via videogameschronicle.com]
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"Glitch was resolved"
I hope he's just saying what he has to in order to satisfy investors, because, respectfully, that's a load of crap.
I bought this on a discount but within 20 minutes of playing I realised I had been conned. I'm eagerly awaiting those updates because this still needs a lot of work.
lol at them acting as if it was just 1 glitch lol.
These wonderful games deserved so much better.
Arguably, so did the consumer.
What? Did they fire the developers? That's the only way you could categorize it as a single glitch.
I played that GTA 3 through PS Now and it still was garbage. I’m very confused.
The picture that accompanies this article is hilarious 🤣
I am yet too play these supposedly remastered titles and I am in no rush so happy too wait till they fix it
Lol this "remaster" is a complete joke. It has zero of the charm from the originals. A cheap low effort quick cash grab. Reminds me of the Silent Hill HD collection.. that one still hurts.
This is a certified "bruh moment".
"We did have a glitch"
Nice, they only had one glitch. Pretty impressive for 3 open world games
I'm sure Cyberpunk 2077 also only had one glitch
I just started San Andreas via Game Pass on my Series X, and some things seem better than I expected while others seem worse. No major glitches or frame rate drops as of yet. This guy seems pretty clueless though.
Yup only one glitch. That's all there was. Keep telling yourself that.
I won't buy the trilogy until it drops to like $15. At that price it's worth it for the jank and laughs.
I would not play this for free. My hard drive space can be used for anything else, even the Trophy screenshots have more value than this stinker.
meaningless pr spin, minimum effort required
Uhm... The what now?...
@PenguinL Rockstar has nothing to do with the Mafia games.
The new "it just works".
And there are actually people out there who will still buy the PS5 GTAV because they've been told it will be 'enhanced'.
L-O-L
The really sad part is they removed the old PS2 games...
For this hot trash train-wreak that isn't a replacement for the old games.
Congratulations on fixing the 1 glitch!
Delusional! Someone needs sectioning.
Just shows how little CEOs know or do. Their primary job is simply to spin reality to show profitability to investors.
We did have a glitch in the beginning, "that glitch was resolved."
Love the language. "We did have a glitch" It was a bit more than a glitch.
They're really like:
I mirror what everyone here is saying in that it's mighty impressive to only have 1 glitch in 3 open world games. I think if they are available Sony should acquire the talented folks at Grove Street Games 🙂
@lolwhatno no, it's used correctly; clearly, what the customer deserved was up for debate at the Rockstar offices when you consider the final product.
The “glitch” lmfao
He probably means the rain right? Right? Or was it self aware?
Sure, the glitches were fixed. I wonder if that the reason I stopped playing GTA 3 after 6 hours... on a game that was free on PS Now.
Easiet to hit profit margins the less $$ you put up front. Clearly they hired a budget dev to quell the masses. And it worked obviously.
I don't think we going to see any more updates tbh. It feels like they pushed few of them to calm down the backslash and now feel no need to fix rest of the issues. Sadly, these remasters will always stay below average.
Well, it's 33% off at target 1 month after physical release but yeah sure you rockstar guys nailed it and only had to fix that one little glitch.
In other words we did the bare minimum with these 'remasters' & now we've done the bare minimum 'fixing' them
Big culture issues at 2k.
All big cultural issues at big companies are solved in one way…
Xbox buy them and reward them with billions.
2k next.
Said like someone who cares little about gaming and understands little what gaming means to people. You know when you’ve been Cyberpunked.
At least the title hit its sales projections, though, right?
For me its dissapointing it didnt bomb that would have send a good message to the company.
@nessisonett They only see a product and money they dont what it looks like or runs as long as it makes them massive amounts of profit. Cyberpunk has shown us that you can release a dumpsterfire of a game and still make massive profits.
Same with Fallout New Vegas. Once that little glitch was resolved New Vegas was absolutely awesome.
The delusion
They put so little effort into this, it was a guaranteed success regardless of what bad press they had to have known was going to happen. Hollywood pulls the same trick over and over again with its own notions of “built-in audience”. An equally big problem to the peak capitalistic behaviours of AAA developers we are seeing more and more of, is the willingness of people to accept absolute horse droppings on all fronts because of their devotion to brands, fandom in general, nostalgia, etc. It takes two to tango.
We solved the glitch
That sounds like he's saying, "We made a bunch of money from sales and did the bare minimum to fix the games, so now we're moving on."
Like Todd Howard's "It just works!",this sort of corporate double speak could be considered true in an alternate universe ...Fallout 76 "just worked" as in it booted up to the title screen!😋
In this case think of Strauss Zelnick's glitch statement like the beer bottle song,where he sees one,GTA veterans who played the ps2 originals see 999 Glitch bottles of beer still on the wall of this mobile mess with 40+ missing songs masquerading as a full priced "definitive remaster"!!🙄😂
Sad to be so cynical of the once great developer.
“Did good for the company” there’s the answer, not the art, the fun but the profits. That said I’m enjoying it
1 glitch my butt, I'm not buying the Trilogy until it's $20 New or free on PS+!
@lolwhatno Not mine either, but we're all united in the face of hijinks like what Rockstar is pulling
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