There’s good news if you felt thrown by the $50 price tag for 13-year-old Red Dead Redemption’s Nintendo Switch and PS4 release: Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick says the cost is right.
Seriously, IGN reports that Zelnick had his reasons, which he clearly laid out after the company’s Q2 earnings report, “That’s just what we believe is the commercially accurate price for it.”
Points of frustration around Red Dead Redemption’s sticker price are extensive, including the lack of a multiplayer option and a complete lack of a quality update since its 2010 release (no 4K visuals in sight).
There’s also the small matter that the game is already available on Xbox Series X in 4K for $40.
Take-Two is leaning on the inclusion of Undead Nightmare, a Red Dead Redemption expansion, in the port as a rationale for the higher price.
If the words of a CEO have convinced you to pay $50 for Red Dead Redemption, you can buy the digital version for the Nintendo Switch or PS4 starting August 17th, with a physical release to follow on October 13th.
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There’s good news if you felt thrown by the $50 price tag for 13-year-old Red Dead Redemption’s Nintendo Switch and PS4 release: Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick says the cost is right.
Seriously, IGN reports that Zelnick had his reasons, which he clearly laid out after the company’s Q2 earnings report, “That’s just what we believe is the commercially accurate price for it.”
Points of frustration around Red Dead Redemption’s sticker price are extensive, including the lack of a multiplayer option and a complete lack of a quality update since its 2010 release (no 4K visuals in sight).
There’s also the small matter that the game is already available on Xbox Series X in 4K for $40.
Take-Two is leaning on the inclusion of Undead Nightmare, a Red Dead Redemption expansion, in the port as a rationale for the higher price.
If the words of a CEO have convinced you to pay $50 for Red Dead Redemption, you can buy the digital version for the Nintendo Switch or PS4 starting August 17th, with a physical release to follow on October 13th.
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