GTA 6 Caused Some Gamers to Hold Off on Buying New Games — Including Take-Two's Own NBA 2K27, Strauss Zelnick Says

The behemoth that is GTA 6 looms large over the video game industry, and it’s so big that it not only caused the September crush of releases, but caused some gamers to hold off on buying new games. Reporting its latest financial results, Take-Two, parent company of GTA 6 developer Rockstar Games, said that its own NBA 2K27 had sold 4 million units, which was “below our forecast for the period.” Take-Two, which owns both 2K and NBA developer Visual Concepts, said that the NBA 2K27 launch window was “unusually busy, with numerous entertainment experiences competing for players’ attention.” In…