{"id":108908,"date":"2020-02-07T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/357824"},"modified":"2020-02-07T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T21:43:00","slug":"with-2-million-sold-take-two-is-unsure-how-game-pass-affected-the-outer-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/07\/with-2-million-sold-take-two-is-unsure-how-game-pass-affected-the-outer-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"With 2 million sold, Take-Two is unsure how Game Pass affected The Outer Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick offered some guarded commentary on subscription services in a recent investor call, noting that \u201cit\u2019s hard to say\u201d what impact\u2060\u2014positive or negative\u2060\u2014a day-one Xbox Game Pass launch had on <em>The Outer Worlds<\/em>\u2019 release.<\/p>\n<p>Even with being offered as a subscriber freebie for Game Pass users, he notes that <em>The Outer Worlds <\/em>has so far sold over 2 million copies since launching in late October.<\/p>\n<p>For subscription services in general, Zelnick says Take-Two is more keen to launch older titles on pay-for-access libraries as a way to reinvigorate the back catalog, but hasn\u2019t ruled out other \u201cexperimental\u201d launches when it makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what we have said all long is that generally speaking we want to be where the consumer is,\u201d said Zelnick. \u201cGenerally speaking, we think subscription offerings to the extent they exist are probably better suited to catalog, but we are willing to take experimental chances when it makes sense for particular title and when the deal underlying that option also makes sense for us.&nbsp;\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick offered some guarded commentary on subscription services in a recent investor call, noting that \u201cit\u2019s hard to say\u201d what impact\u2060\u2014positive or negative\u2060\u2014a day-one Xbox Game Pass launch had on The Outer Worlds\u2019 release. Even with being offered as a subscriber freebie for Game Pass users, he notes that The Outer Worlds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}