I interviewed Zelnick for a moment now and asked if take-two would support the Nintendo Switch 2 in a big way. He said he could not comment on their plans. And he added, “History, we supported all the major platforms and we chose to support Nintendo platforms. For example, CIV 7, which is in the early access today, is available for the switch. So I will have the every belief that we will be supported by a switch 2. ”
And I asked if he would offer a certainty that the dates for the mafia: the old country and Grand Theft Auto VI is not slippery, as there is no date of launch for those games. Take-Two reiterates its hope that the mafia will debut in the summer and the GTA VI will debut in the fall.
“It was always the possibilities in our business. However, we gave the narrow window for upcoming titles. After all, it was February and we described the discharge schedule through the end of the calendar year,” he said.
Asked if he was concerned about The tariffs proposed by Donald Trump And if they affect hardware or disc sales, he said, “I'm not sure it will affect physical discs. I think tariffs can be negative for console sales. As an economist, no I'm a big fan of the trade war. tariffs are the right way to build or tax an economy. “
Take-Two confirmed that Michael Condrey, founder of Tho -31 union Game Studio, leaving the company. It also revealed that the studio was producing project ethos. Asked about it, he said, “We thank Michael Condrey. He did the amazing work for us. He brought us a project and created a team. He will continue to advise us in the future of project ethos . We manage that.
As for direct sales sales, I mentioned that the company said it was growing and asked if he would look at that as a strategic opportunity.
He said he hoped the direct-to-consumer would be a bigger part of the company's mobile platform than the present.
“That was said, it would definitely not be part of the lion's sales. We are still having fun working with our retail partners, and we will continue to do it all over the world,” he said.
As for the mobile trends that slow down Zynga's sales, he said, “Our perspective is that the mobile is back to moderate growth, but we have no kind of strong tails in the industry that everyone enjoys up to mid 2022.
“So the good news is that it is back to growing up. Other news is still a bit difficult to market. Our repeated consumer who spends mobile is about 6% in the quarter,” he said. “That was a bit shy of our expectations. On the other hand, we had this big hit in the factory match and great performance in many titles like Toon Blast and Toy Blast. So we're very good about Zynga. We are glad this is part of our portfolio.
I also asked about the new ESA business conference, Conscoming in 2026. He said, “I'm super excited about it. Obviously I think it's going to be great.”
