Take-Two big cheese Strauss Zelnick has declared that developer Rockstar is ready to ‘blow away’ gamers with its upcoming PlayStation 4 and Xbox One version of Grand Theft Auto V.
Speaking to MCV, Zelnick asserted his belief that the next-generation port of its multi-million selling crime caper will exceed consumers’ expectations.
"They want to blow consumers away," he said. "Whatever the expectation is, they want to exceed it. When you see GTA 5 on next-gen, I want you to tell me whether it is or isn’t better than your expectation. I can guarantee it will be better.
"One way to look at it is that 34m copies have been sold, but there’s 7bn people on Earth. So we have over 6.9bn people left to address," he added.
"It’s a massive market and an amazing title. GTA is the standard bearer in the industry. How can you buy a next-gen console and not want to play GTA on it?"
An analyst recently predicted that the game could sell two million units during its first month alone.
GTA V was released in September 2013 and has already shipped over 34 million copies worldwide.