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On a call with investors today , Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick pushed back on the idea that PC players have a different relationship with the Grand Theft Auto series than console players.
"Your PC players seem to engage with GTA a bit differently than console," said Oppenheimer & Co analyst Martin Yang during a Q&A session. "There are roleplay options. Over time, do you think you want to close the player experience gap between console and PC, or do you view the two platforms as more independent because of their respective technical capabilities?"
Zelnick responded with acknowledgement that series like Civilization started on PC and expanded onto consoles, but said that "generally speaking, the experiences on console and PC tend to be roughly the same" and that, in general, "the capabilities of the PC platform today aren't different materially from console capabilities."
The vanilla GTA Online experience may be roughly equivalent for console…