Take-Two CEO Calls Red Dead Redemption Price “Commercially Accurate”

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Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick made quite the comment when asked about the $ 50 pricing for the upcoming rerelease of Red Dead Redemption to Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.

Speaking to IGN, Zelnick said that “that’s just what we believe is the commercially accurate price for it.”

Later, Zelnick tried to justify the price further, by pointing out the value added to it with the addition of Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare. In Zelnick’s word, Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare “was a great standalone game in its own right when it was originally released, so we feel like it’s a great bundle for the first time, and certainly a great value for consumers.”

We had previously noted Zelnick’s statement from two years ago. Talking about the upcoming port of Grand Theft Auto V to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, he said that the company “actually takes the time to do the very best job we can making the title different for the new release, for the new technology that we’re launching it on.”

We are now at day two since Take-Two officially revealed this rerelease to modern platforms. Every sign indicates that this is as barebones a rerelease as any game company could have possibly made to rerelease an old game. Video comparisons are already out in the wild demonstrating that there are not tangible improvements on performance, and we mainly see better lighting effects. That is not nothing, but overall, fans would be right to call it very little change.

So, let’s make a comparison. Techland made a highly critically regarded port of Dying Light to the Nintendo Switch, released all the way back in 2021. Dying Light itself originally released on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. Techland made a lot of DLC for the game in the six