Take-Two boss gets cross about GTAV

By Tom Bramwell Published 2 September, 2009

Rants at analyst. Plus: LA Noire still exists.

Take-Two refused to comment on the status of Grand Theft Auto V during its latest financial results conference call, but did say that LA Noire is still in development.

"We're not going to announce it. We're not going to announce when we're going to announce it," big boss Strauss Zelnick told an analyst when asked about GTAV during the call (thanks vg247).

"And we're not going to announce a strategy about announcing it or about when we're going to announce it either, or about the announcement strategy surrounding the announcement of the strategy," he added, not at all madly.

One game Take Two has already announced, of course, is Team Bondi's LA Noire, but CEO Ben Feder would only say: "It's in development, nothing to announce today. When we have more to announce, we'll announce it.

"We're continuing to develop it and we think it's pretty exciting and innovative. When we have more to share, we'll share it."

While we know nothing about GTAV (and get the sense there won't be an announcement any time soon), we do know a few bits about LA Noire, which was originally announced in 2006.

You can pick those out on our LA Noire gamepage, which includes a massive interview with Brendan McNamara, where we begin by joking that development will presumably take less time than his last game, The Getaway. Whoops.

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Comments (23) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • LiveForever #1 2 years ago

    He sure likes the word 'announcement', we all know its in development anyway.
    Edited by 1 at 02/09/09 @ 08:46

  • kendoji #2 2 years ago

    This is all well and good, but when is GTAV coming out?

  • matrim83 #3 2 years ago

    GTA 4 kinda dulled my enthusiasm for the series. I hope 5 goes back to its roots or Saints row level of fun.

    Also hated the the brown palette/hue of the whole game.
    Edited by 1 at 02/09/09 @ 08:53

  • Antaios #4 2 years ago

    That was a good laugh, thanks. :D

  • teabagger #5 2 years ago

    This article needs a picture of Vic & Bob with handbags.

  • Tyronne #6 2 years ago

    i think they should use this as a idea for a game called ` Announcement Hero` with a plastic business card addon.

  • M_of_the_sys #7 2 years ago

    So an article about a guy revealing nothing?

  • Cpt_McOneball #8 2 years ago

    "And we're not going to announce a strategy about announcing it or about when we're going to announce it either, or about the announcement strategy surrounding the announcement of the strategy,"

    What?

  • kangarootoo #9 2 years ago

    Of course they are working on it. They might as well push a truck full of money off a pier than not work on a GTA sequel. We will be seeing GTA spin offs for at least a decade.

    That said, I simply got bored with GTAIV (whereas Saints Row 2 kept me entertained till the end). I know its horses for courses, but I personally need something different out of 5 if its going to get me interested.

  • SYS64738 #10 2 years ago

    Announcement = Word Of The Year 2009

  • smoothpete #11 2 years ago

    I'm pleased about LA Noire. Please get on with it though, its been ages.

  • MENTAL1ST Verified Senior Software Engineer, Picsel UK Ltd. #12 2 years ago

    I doubt very much they're working on GTA 5. The numbers only change with the game engine, so if they're working on anything (apart from Gay Tony) it's GTA 4: Some Other City.

  • local_celebrity #13 2 years ago

    Strauss Zelnick? Patrick Bateman more like.

  • T4RG4 #14 2 years ago

    LA Noire? Ha.

  • local_celebrity #15 2 years ago

    Actual quote from our man, Strauss Bateman: “I schedule exercise as though it’s a meeting and treat it the same way...When someone asks me to have a drink, I suggest the gym instead."

    No mention of what he does 'post-workout' though. (Perhaps it's a wholesome session of eye-gouging and skullfucking?)

  • mkreku #16 2 years ago

    I really hope they work on bringing the fun back to GTA5. Vice City and San Andreas are two of my favourite games ever, but GTA4 got boring 15 seconds after I finished the (rather short) main story. Actually, I may have become bored with it long before that, but I did finish it..

  • erp #17 2 years ago

    +1 to that man in the article! :D

    I do find announcements of announcements extremely irritating.

  • Hobo #18 2 years ago

    "Good on him for not announcing an announcement. The industry is bad enough as it is."

    Means nothing when news outlets are still going to pick up on it though haha! It effectively turns it into an announcement of a non-announcement of an announcement!

  • Toadie48 #19 2 years ago

    LOL just hurry up ad announce the game already. :D

  • Jonathan_Fakenham #20 2 years ago

    GTA V, indirectly confirmed. Sweet.

  • Drakron #21 2 years ago

    L.A. Noir was announced as a PS3 exclusive back in 2006, keep in mind Take-Two is only publishing it under the Rockstar Games label as Team Bondi is not owned by Take-Two.

    Also L.A. Noir development is "wholly funded " by SCEA so I doubt there will be any other version that of the PS3, of course that was back in 2004.

    Honestly if after 5 years they only have a rendered trailer for show ... well, I guess that have nothing and been living off the SCEA.

  • drxym #22 2 years ago

    You can be sure that when GTA V is due for release that we'll see the usual money hatting and payola which ensures wall to wall coverage.

  • davisorle #23 2 years ago

    Will you PLEASE not make it a GTA with just new quests and sidequests and actually IMPROVE and UPDATE as a game? WILL YOU? if not I will sure as hell stay the f**k away from the game. I dont feel like playing the same thing again. Saints Raw from 1 to 2 was a freaking different game. GTAs keep being the same thing with just what..? a new mode of sidemissions? Hope they think before they get into developing it too deeply and there is no return to make a new game thats worth this time..