The Biggest Gaming News For February 8, 2022
One of Take-Two's quarterly financial reports made its way to the public today, revealing a bunch on interesting numbers regarding some of Rockstar's most popular titles. We also found out the nominations for the Oscars, and that Platinum Games wants Phil Spencer and Xbox to help bring back Scalebound. More details below.
We'll get all the Rockstar numbers out of the way first, including the news that the highly controversial GTA remaster has exceeded commercial expectations despite a very rocky launch. Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick doesn't reveal any specific numbers, but the title has allegedly sold around 10 million copies. It just goes to show how massive a series like GTA is when a game as buggy as this one can still amass such massive sales numbers.
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Rockstar's quarterly financial report has also revealed that Red Dead Redemption 2 has joined GTA V as one of the top ten best-selling games of all time. Having now sold a whopping 43 million copies, Red Dead Redemption 2 has taken tenth spot in the list, bumping Nintendo's version Tetris down to eleventh. With Wii Fit just a million copies ahead of it, it's possible that Red Dead Redemption 2 could be a little higher in the list come of the end of 2022.
Moving away from Rockstar, we have some news about Scalebound, an Xbox funded title that was being developed by Bayonetta and Nier Automata developer PlatinumGames before it was unfortunately canceled in 2017. In an interview with IGN Japan, Scalebound director Hideki Kamiya appealed to Phil Spencer saying "Let’s do it, Phil!", pleading with the Xbox head to relaunch development. Kamiya has tried multiple times to get Scalebound development
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