Do you Pre-Order games? Why or why not?
Take-Two announced its financial results for Q2 of fiscal year 2026, and shared an update on the sales of GTA5 and Red Dead Redemption 2.
You think Rockstar views Red Dead 2 as a failure because it didn't sell 150m copies?
I am pretty sure they don't. It was profitable and made them a lot of money. Not GTA5 money but far from failure. Maybe it is lower priority franchise, due to being smaller, but that is about the lowest they would put it as. Only thing they do consider failure is RDR2 Online, unlike GTA5 Online, that RDR2 Online flopped. Hence why it got less support. And when it come to profits, sales for both combined don't come close to GTA Online microtansactions. Hence why everything very quickly got canceled and GTA Online was top priority, so no GTA6 for a long time, no DLC for GTA5, despite there being 5 DLCs planned, at least I think it was 5, give or take one. But as I see it, they needed to rejuvenate interest and all, hence why GTA6 eventually is getting made. But what they are really looking forward to is refresh of Online.
Only in terms of the online aspect of the game. They didn't support it as much as they did GTA V Online. I remember people being pissed about that.
Boring and overrated. Red Dead Redemption is pretty good though. The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy is my personal GOAT. We need more stuff like that from TooKyo.
I must be one of the few who are fine with the GTA6 delay. People treat that game like it’s the 2nd coming lol.
My daughter asked me how I felt about I shrugged and said I don't care gives me time to finish up games I already have. It's all good let them make the best game they can.
Dan Houser opens up about Red Dead Redemption 2’s rocky development, calling it behind schedule, massively over budget, and full of pressure to prove doubters wrong.
The world they built is pretty amazing. Unfortunately, the game was mostly boring to me. I definitely had fun in some parts, but it didn't do it for me as a whole like the first one did. I loved RDR so much.
The budgets and time it takes to make games these days is out of control. Such a big risk. If a game isn't a huge hit, it is often it for a studio. Scary. I really miss the PS2 and PS3 days where studeios could make 4 games in a generation and take risks in making something new. And so many were using their own engines. Those were the days.
Agreed. I love RDR but couldn't get into RDR2. The animations take forever and game slows you down on purpose. It won't let you have fun because R* want us to play the game they want to. I know millions love RDR2 and I even bought and own it. But just wasn't for me.
It's like comparing GTA4 to saints row 2. One game was about fun while the other was about realism and that's coming from someone who beat GTA4 many times. I much rather a game be fun to play than chase realism
GTA IV’s realism is what made it so much more fun for me. I loved experimenting with the physics.
I bought RDR2 also. Put 100+ hours into it and beat it our of respect for Rockstar and all the people saying it was the greatest game ever. RDR blew my mind but might also have been the best time in gaming for me personally. l loved that PS3 gen so much.
I am excited to see what GTA6 is like.
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Red Dead Redemption 2 fans took to social media to honor D'Angelo.
I was listening to D Angelo when he debuted in 1995. He had some great songs from that period up in to the early 2000s. He was a talented Neo Soul musician. I never knew his music was in RDR. May he R.I.P.
Not anymore since Im tired of getting a broken game that requires months of patches to fix. Now just wait for most of the community to say its fun and runs great. Bought BF1 and Gears 4 when the PC community praised the games for its gameplay and performance. Skipped Mafia 3 and Horizon 3 which had problems at launch. I'll get them both next year when they get a sale.
Yup, i do it because i have the money at the moment to do so, and instead of trying to hold onto it for months why not just pay fo it now? I also use it as a pseudo payment plan as it's far easier to pay $15 every paycheck for a couple months than it is to drop a full $60 on the spot. The key is i educate myself thoroughly on the game and its studio's track record before i make that decision, and so far it hasn't failed me for like 11years now
Just like the fellow commenter stated to pay it off and get it out the way , if it comes w/an incentive so be it .
There's nothing wrong with pre-orders themselves. Stores like Gamestop (back in the day before they became crooked) started doing it as a way to have an idea of knowing how many copies of a game to buy. Before that games sold out regularly because rather than buy a large excess of copies that end up sitting on the shelf unpaid for, stores would under-buy and end up running out. It saved them from taking a loss in sales.
It wasn't until developers, or more accurately in most cases, production companies started taking advantage of it and using it to sell unfinished games that they plan to update later. Then they started with the pre-order bonuses to lure people in and the rest is history.
Hell, I remember the first pre-order bonus I ever got was for Soulcalibur 2. It came with an awesome Ivy T-shirt. Soulcalibur 2 is a great game and this was clearly before pre-orders became abused.
Point is, pre-orders themselves can actually be a great thing for both customers and retailers. Its mostly the publishers who are to blame for abusing it and turning them into what they are today.
When it means leaving a very small deposit at retailer you can cancel anytime it's a win win situation for the gamer. Digital is another story