Take-Two Interactive CEO Discusses Remasters, GTA 6

We know that executives aren't the ones who make the actual game announcements and need to navigate these sort of questions carefully, responding to them without giving an answer, but this is essentially just describing the difference between remasters and rereleases. Incidentally, Rockstar has simply just ported over some GTA games to mobile platforms.

One might argue how accurate this assessment is regarding Take-Two's remasters, but Zelnick goes on to bring up two examples - the aforementioned GTA 5, which is a surprising example of a not particularly old game getting remastered multiple times. The other is the recently released remastered bundle of Mafia and Mafia 2.

The point about the huge GTA 5 demographic that hasn't experienced any other game is an interesting one. While we feel that graphical fidelity is of little consequence next to aesthetics, gameplay and narrative, many players - especially casual enjoyers of video games - place a great deal of emphasis on graphics. Re-releasing classics like San Andreas of Vice City with a new coat of paint will give a lot of these newer fans reason to dip deeper in the GTA franchise.

I'm kind of inclined to leave it more as a statement than a question and any update on our release schedule will come from Rockstar Games

It would have been pretty out of turn to announce classic remasters like this, so we're not particularly surprised. When asked about the unannounced but definitely happening GTA 6 (or whatever its name will be), Zelnick gave essentially the same answer - if there is any announcing to be made, Rockstar will take care of it.

In an interesting parallel, recent major GTA 6 leaks that named Vice City as the location for the title also spoke about a possible remaster for a GTA title to be launched sooner.