WSJ interviewer tells Take-Two CEO they have no major hits despite GTA 5 and Red Dead 2
film_girl · x · 2026-11-06
Ahead of GTA VI's launch, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick sat down with WSJ — and the interviewer told him straight to his face that the company doesn't have any major hits, despite GTA 5 and Red Dead 2 being among the best-selling games ever. The clip went viral, with game industry voices mocking the state of mainstream games coverage.
Quote-retweeting journalist kyliebytes went further: games journalism would be better today if the internet hadn't destroyed the beat, outlets hadn't fired their best writers, and editors had ever taken the beat seriously — a snapshot of the long decline of specialist games reporting.
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