BioShock Will Return; L.A. Noire, Beaterator Delayed Until FY09
Zelnick was addressing an analyst's question on how to avoid watering down a franchise with annual releases but still foster innovative development on a regular basis. The chairman said Take-Two would be roughly on a biennial schedule for game releases if it didn't have to worry about fostering creativity in game design.
"I would say, probably, roughly an every-two-year schedule would be optimal. And if you look historically that has been largely the case with GTA, and I'd expect we'd apply rougly the same strategy to BioShock because BioShock is shaping up to be a very important franchise," Zelnick said in response to an analyst's query. "I don't want to say more than that about BioShock because I certainly don't want to jinx it, but I feel awfully good about where that's going."
Another analyst asked Zelnick about the sell-through numbers for BioShock, since the company has revealed shipment numbers of 1.5 million, but not retail sales. Zelnick would only say Take-Two thinks BioShock is "one of the fastest selling games in video game history."
The call also revealed two delays from previously predicted development schedules for Team Bondi's hard-boiled PS3 action game L.A. Noire and Rockstar Leeds' Beaterator--a PSP music game collaboration with hip hop producer Timbaland. Both titles are now expected to ship in Take-Two's fiscal year 2009, which begins in November 2008.
"Right now we're just pushing out the release date, and we'll be more specific as we have more information," Zelnick said. "We are continuing to develop the titles, and I think our decision was driven in part by the fact that we have such a strong release schedule for '08 and a pretty robust one."
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erotic sock
replyi hope when they say "turn into an ongoing franchise" they don't mean "beat a dead horse so the maggots squirm enough to keep filling our moneyhats"
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This is the type of game I really want no kind of sequel to. It's like Grim Fandango or Full Throttle. It tells a completely self-sufficient story in a world that is entirely constructed for the sole purpose of telling that story. Rapture was not conceived like some pulp fantasy world, with the world fleshed out first then the story injected into it--the world itself was borne out of the story's own thematic needs. I don't want to go back to Rapture, or even really do stuff in it before BioShock took place. I want Rapture to always exist as a crumbling metaphor for unchecked hubris, as it was intended to do, and I want Irrational to spend its creative energy on new things.
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I agree, I never want to see Rapture pre or post Bioshock. One of the most awesome things about Bioshock was how they left it up to the player's imagination to picture what Rapture was like before or after the events of the game with suggestions through the plot.
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That still sounds to me like they were created largely in tandem, and it also suggests that the cause of Rapture's downfall is intrinsic to the whole of the world's identity.
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No way, they built it up with the intention of breaking it down. In other words, they built it to have those fundamental flaws.
Bioshock is Rapture in its' entirety of flawed principle and execution.
I think a sequel would...be a much lesser game.
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2k isn't Id software
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