{"id":98009,"date":"2019-08-06T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/348172"},"modified":"2019-08-06T21:16:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T21:16:00","slug":"take-two-ceo-strauss-zelnick-feels-good-about-google-stadias-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/06\/take-two-ceo-strauss-zelnick-feels-good-about-google-stadias-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick ‘feels good’ about Google Stadia’s release"},"content":{"rendered":"

Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick is optimistic about Stadia, though he notes that how the platform will fare with players remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

Speaking during a call with investors this week, Zelnick discussed the coming cloud-based game platform in a Q&A, sharing insight into the company\u2019s conversations with Google, and its overall opinion of Stadia in the process.<\/p>\n

In short: \u201cWe are supportive of Stadia. We feel really good about that release,\u201d says Zelnick.<\/p>\n

Notably, he stands in support of Stadia\u2019s traditional business model. While the platform will support programs like Ubisoft’s Uplay+<\/a> that offer access to a subscriber-only game library, titles on the platform will be purchased for full price, as they would be on any physical game console.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’ve always said that you want to distinguish a distribution technology from a business model, the business model that we’re using is one that’s tried and true, which is downloading or streaming for sale,\u201d says Zelnick.<\/p>\n

On the technical front, he echos comments from Ubisoft’s Yves Guillemot<\/a> and says that bringing games to the platform so far seems to be a fairly straightforward process and, on a technical front, relatively seamless. \u201cThere are some minor challenges,\u201d notes Zelnick, \u201cNothing that we can\u2019t surmount.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of Take-Two\u2019s subsidiaries, 2K Games, already has a title slated for a Stadia release, and Zelnick says that Google has made it so making titles available on the platform has very little friction.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoogle has been exceedingly helpful,\u201d says Zelnick. \u201cWe feel very good about the opportunity. It remains to be seen how the platform works. They’re awfully talented and they are very, very committed. So fingers crossed that meets and exceeds consumers expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick is optimistic about Stadia, though he notes that how the platform will fare with players remains to be seen. Speaking during a call with investors this week, Zelnick discussed the coming cloud-based game platform in a Q&A, sharing insight into the company\u2019s conversations with Google, and its overall opinion of Stadia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98009","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\/98009","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=98009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}