Jeff Grubb
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204 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard May 2025
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They acquired UGC companies, user-generated content companies, to help them basically build a platform so people can build stuff inside of Grand Theft Auto. They're making Roblox here. Roblox is a game that's 20 years old. That game came out in 2006. Did it really? Roblox for adults. Yeah, 2006 for Roblox. Wow, I did not know that.
I know. Right. But it's been around for forever. And, you know, that was from a time when that was a weird thing. Now it's pretty normally, you know, Grand Theft Auto online one and Grand Theft Auto five been running for more than 10 years now. So the the idea here is let's make sure this has a smooth launch, because if it's catastrophic, that is going to hurt us big time in the long run.
Obviously, they'll be able to push it, like bring it back. Like it is too big to fail at a certain point, but they don't want to fail. They want to get it right because that is more money in their pockets right away, and they don't have to spend years sort of fixing something when they could have just got it right in the first place.
So I think that's a big motivating factor here beyond what I believe is a pretty honest desire to avoid crunch.
No, no. I don't think any sort of delay with this game would really surprise me at any point. It is just so massive. And, you know, it's going to be the most expensive piece of media ever made, right? Like, by the time it's done. Yeah.
And, I mean, at a certain point, you just got to, like, recognize the bet you're making is so massive that you have to, you know, cross all your T's, dot all your I's. And in that case, there are a lot of T's and I's to dot and cross. So it's going to just take... A lot of effort here. And, you know, it is at this point a year from now. And really, they were planning to maybe release it this fall.
So I guess we can call it a six month delay. But of course, internally, the people actually doing the work never believed it was coming out this year. but okay. An extra six months. Let's just call it that for the sake of the conversation. What can they really do? It's just about making sure everything is that they have is good. They're not changing this game.
It's just going to be like, let's make it as good as possible. We've heard many times stories of games coming together in the last six months to a year and really finding the fun at that point.
And I'm sure they've got a good idea of what this game should be, but I bet they're like, if we just had that extra time, we really could make this what it needs to be to set us up for the next 10 to 15 years.
Yeah, they're trying to make it clear, like, listen, we understand you weren't expecting a delay. So when we give you the delay, let's give you the information that you do want. Here's an exact date so you can plan on us, you know, for the stockholders making that revenue in this window. And, yeah, that's, you know, them definitely throwing a bone while they are giving the bad news.
So that helps a little bit. It is pretty wild for them to put a specific date on it. I was, like, reading it. And even as I was reading the date, I'm like, well, they're just saying May 2026. And I kind of had to, like, blink a couple times and see. Like, no, there's a number next to May right there, May 26th. And that was pretty weird to see. Yeah. I do wonder, though.
I mean, you know, they're going to have people in their ear that they do partner with. Rockstar doesn't need anybody, but that doesn't mean they don't actually partner with anybody. And there's likely a co-marketing deal, probably with PlayStation, maybe with Microsoft, but I would bet it's with PlayStation.
And when those conversations happen, there's probably someone, you know, up high who talks to people that go in those meetings and say, hey, if you could, can you get us a goddamn date for when this thing's coming out just to help us out over here? And when we started getting some dates in the last couple of weeks with like those take two games, picking a date and then go see, okay. Yes.
It's like, okay, I bet they've gotten some news. And to me it sounded like, well, they're all kind of bunching up here in the earlier part of, you know, before fall really so that they can get out of the way of Grand Theft Auto six launching this fall. That's kind of how I was reading it. So I like, that's only the reason I'm a little bit surprised. It's like, oh, they are just picking the dates.
They probably wanted anyhow. Cause they did get word that this game is very likely getting delayed to 2026 and And yeah, so them giving a date now and saying, hey, the rest of the industry, here's what we're really aiming for. And we're getting very specific so you can to let you know we're pretty confident. So if you do want to work around us, here you go. Stop bothering us.
You know, it's a nice gesture.
Yeah, it's, you know, Take-Two's got plenty of games coming out this year. They'll figure it out, whatever. But they do have to kind of explain this. They have, you know, remember, like, this money that they were putting on the books was something that they were promising last fiscal year. They've been kind of, like, just gesturing to investors for a while now that this, hey, this is happening.
And then, like, that's shifted to this fiscal year, the one we're currently in. And they were making a lot of big promises because, like, we have Civ VII, and we got...
uh borderlands is back and uh we have uh the mafia we got a new mafia game and then and then you know the crown jewel is gonna be there to like you know really put put a spice on top of everything and and you know well things change they're gonna have to explain that to investors uh and their stock price did you know did take a hit Uh, but this game's going to come.
And if, if you're going to want to like get on the take two train as an investor, well then now's the time because Grand Theft, no, no matter what happens with Grand Theft Auto, even if like we were talking about that catastrophic launch that hypothetically could have happened if they rushed the game or whatever, even in that case, it was going to make all the money.
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