Throughout a latest earnings name (courtesy of IGN), Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick stated that he was “fairly certain” that the corporate wouldn’t be affected by the US tariffs on imported items. He attributed this to the truth that there was fairly a little bit of confusion owing to the tariffs being issued after which withdrawn. Regardless of this confusion, nevertheless, he stated that the fiscal steering for Take-Two Interactive has been determined for the approaching 12 months.
He additionally famous that, regardless of the tariffs, Take-Two already has a strong base of shoppers on all platforms aside from the Nintendo Change 2, which is slated for launch on June 5. Taking this into consideration, the corporate will probably not be affected by any adjustments to tariffs, based on Zelnick.
“Our information is for the subsequent ten months, basically, that’s the a part of the fiscal 12 months that hasn’t elapsed but, and it’s very tough to foretell the place tariffs will land, given how issues have bumped round up to now,” stated Zelnick when requested concerning the tariffs. “We really feel fairly assured that our information wouldn’t be meaningfully affected, except tariffs ran off in a really totally different route than we at the moment anticipate. In any case, there’s already a really substantial set up base for all of our goal platforms besides Nintendo Change 2, which is pre-launch. So we’ve got, I believe, sufficient perception that we wouldn’t be affected by any adjustments.”
In its earnings report, the corporate has reaffirmed that it will likely be releasing a number of video games on totally different platforms, similar to Borderlands 4 on PC, PS5, Xbox Collection X/S and Nintendo Change 2, and Mafia: The Previous Nation on PC and present consoles. There are additionally video games which can be slated for launch that don’t have confirmed platforms but, together with NBA 2K26 and WWE 2K26. With this in thoughts, it may be straightforward to see why Zelnick isn’t too involved concerning the tariffs affecting the writer.
Main as much as the discharge of the Nintendo Change 2, Zelnick stated that he was feeling “nice optimism” about Take-Two’s relationship with Nintendo. In the identical earnings name, Zelnick talked about how properly Nintendo has been supporting third-party publishers to make sure that the Change 2 has a robust line-up of video games.
“We’re launching 4 titles with Nintendo Change 2, and that’s I believe a much bigger array of releases than we’ve ever provided earlier than with a brand new Nintendo platform,” stated Zelnick. “Traditionally, being a 3rd social gathering within the Nintendo enterprise has been a bit difficult. I believe Nintendo has been very forthcoming in addressing that. And we’re stepping up too, as a result of we’ve got nice optimism for the platform.”
In an interview with IGN proper earlier than the earnings name, Zelnick additionally spoke about how the choice to push the discharge of Grand Theft Auto 6 again from Fall 2025 to Might 26, 2026 pained him, however that it’s going to in the end be price it to present developer Rockstar Video games extra time to work on the sport.
“I really feel actually good about how fiscal 26 appears sitting right here as we speak,” he stated. “And whereas in fact, delays ache me — how may they not? — crucial factor to do is to help your groups of their seek for perfection.”
