With this month’s recent HD re-release of GTA: San Andreas on Xbox 360, many gamers are wondering whether or not Rockstar’s beloved GTA franchise will ever receive a full HD remastering of the series – not unlike 343 Industries’ upcoming Halo: The Master Chief Collection. With last-gen consoles falling by the wayside due to the increasing prevalance and popularity of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, it is a fair question to ask if classic GTA‘s such as 3 and Vice City will ever arrive on current-generation consoles.
Fortunately, according to Take-Two Interactive’s (the parent company of both Rockstar and 2K Games) CEO, Strauss Zelnick, the possibility of a GTA HD Collection isn’t too unrealistic, stating that “he wouldn’t rule anything out.”
Read more details on what Zelnick had to say in regards to the prospect of a full HD remaster of the GTA franchise after the break.
Take-Two Not Ruling Out Possible GTA HD Collection
During a recent investor call, in which Strauss Zelnick was a participant, he replied to an inquiry about the possibility of an HD remastering of the GTA series in the vein of The Master Chief Collection – stating the following:
“In any given year we and our key competitors launch new intellectual properties and new iterations of older properties. And occasionally, when we see a platform shift, we will take an old property and create an iteration of that in a very similar form for next-gen. And we wouldn’t rule anything out.
That would be driven by the market opportunity that we perceive, and the potential for delivering a quality release. And that would be very much something that also would be driven by the passion of our labels. It would not be something that we would mandate to our labels. Our labels are driven by the desire to delight consumers and pursue their creative passions, and that’s been a formula that’s worked extraordinarily well for this company for the past seven years.
So we don’t have a policy answer to it, except our job around here is to make sure that consumers are thrilled; to deliver the very best titles in the marketplace and to make sure that for the top creative talent industry that this is the number one place to work.”
While Straus’ response doesn’t necessarily guarantee HD remakes of popular Take-Two/Rockstar games such as GTA (3, VC, SA), Max Payne, or Red Dead Redemption, it does show that Take-Two Interactive is open to exploring the possibility.
What are your thoughts? Would you like to see an HD remaster of classic GTA games in the same manner 343i did with the upcoming Halo: The Master Chief Collection? Why or why not?
What other Rockstar Games would you like to see potentially receive the HD remaster treatment?
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