Pink Lifeless Redemption 1 is exchanging its dead-console shackles for a set of dying-console handcuffs on August 17, and individuals are understandably lower than thrilled about it. Particularly, they’re sad about that $50 price ticket, which could appear a bit of steep for a “conversion” of an outdated sport that is coming to outdated consoles (and never PC) with out options—like multiplayer—which have been current on the Xbox back-compat model for ages.
However to not fear, as a result of Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick is emphatic that the value of the RDR port is “commercially correct,” a phrase so redolent of the boardroom that it causes bodily injury to folks with out MBAs. In plain English, Zelnick implies that the $50 price ticket displays the worth of RDR 1 plus its Undead Nightmare DLC. In even plainer English than that, it means Take-Two thinks it is a value they will get folks to pay.
“That is simply what we consider is the commercially correct value for it,” Zelnick informed IGN after yesterday’s Take-Two convention after the outlet questioned the RDR1 port’s pricing. Take-Two’s government vice chairman of finance, Hannah Sage, additionally jumped in to level out that the bundle contains each RDR1 and Undead Nightmare, the primary sport’s spooky enlargement marketing campaign. Zelnick added that Undead Nightmare “was an awesome standalone sport in its personal proper when it was initially launched,” so Take-Two reckons the brand new port is “an awesome bundle for the primary time, and positively an awesome worth for shoppers.”
Properly, that is all properly and good, however you’ll be able to at the moment acquire a extra feature-complete model of RDR1 on the Xbox retailer for $30, after which load it up with all its DLC—Undead Nightmare included—for $13. That’s, dangle on, let me do the maths, a $43 price ticket on a model of the sport that comes with functioning multiplayer and a set of Xbox Sequence S/X back-compat enhancements. I gotta say, that $50 tag on the upcoming Swap/PS4 model nonetheless appears awfully excessive to me, irrespective of how commercially correct it’s.
Not that any of this implies a lot to you and me, after all. No model of Pink Lifeless 1 is on the market on PC outdoors of emulation, a state of affairs that appears unlikely to vary anytime quickly. IGN did press Zelnick on the potential for a PC launch of RDR down the road, however the CEO demurred. Launch bulletins, he mentioned, had been as much as the devs. Name me cynical, however I am not getting my hopes up.
