盒友们早上好啊，一起看看今天的资讯吧。
近日，据外媒CharlieIntel爆料，《使命召唤19》在发售的前10天的时间里销售额已超过10亿美元，这也使得该作成为系列销量最快的游戏。
RTX 4080定于11月16日上市发售，国内定价9499元，海外定价1199美元。对于翘首以盼甚至持币待购这款显卡的朋友来说，有个坏消息传来。
爆料人MLID从渠道获悉，RTX 4080 16GB的备货情况比RTX 4090还要差，首发就会少20~40%的货源。同时，后期的补货速度甚至不如RTX 4090。
近日，IGN公布了读者票选的史上最佳恐怖游戏排名。其中《寂静岭2》以88.5%的支持率获得了第一名，在一定程度上也说明了玩家对于《寂静岭2：重制版》的期待之情。
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据介绍，这棵“树”将以基础学科为根脉，以学科的发展演变为枝干，系统性呈现百年科学的发展脉络及突破性成果，让人沉浸体验人类科学成果。
In its quarterly chat with investors today, GTA publisher Take-Two predicted that it would make a little less money this fiscal year than it had previously forecast: $5.4 to $5.5 billion in net sales, rather than $5.8 to $5.9 billion. And yet, the company is “highly optimistic” about future growth, mainly because it has confidence in its upcoming games.
Responding to some gentle investment banker pressure during the Q&A portion of the call, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said that the lower revenue expectation is mainly because people are spending less money in mobile games right now; Take-Two acquired mobile developer Zynga this year, which is expected to account for 45% of the company’s net sales. According to Zelnick, the downturn says nothing about Take-Two’s outlook for its upcoming “immersive core” games, a lineup he claims is arguably the “most robust” in the entire industry. “Immersive core” is the label Take-Two uses in place of “triple-A.” It describes games that “have the deepest gameplay and the most hours of content,” the company says. The 2K Sports games, Grand Theft Auto 5, and Red Dead Redemption 2 fall into that category, and Take-Two says it currently has 21 “immersive core” games releasing before the end of March 2025.
That list includes Marvel’s Midnight Suns, the Firaxis strategy game which was delayed to December 2, Kerbal Space Program 2, which is out in early access on February 24 after a delay, and 2K’s NBA, WWE, and golf games. There’s a lot of other stuff we don’t know about, of course, and Zelnick says he feels “really good” about the games in the pipeline. If it didn’t, he says he wouldn’t be predicting “record results in the next three years.”
Responding to the question of why it seems to be taking a while for this “most robust” pipeline to start putting out games—investment banker pressure intensifies—Zelnick said that there are no “productivity issues” at Take-Two. According to him, the company just insists on releasing hits. “We definitely have very high quality expectations and demands, and that’s reflected in the fact that we’re performing across the board,” Zelnick said. “This company is a hit factory. We haven’t had a disappointing release in as long as I can remember, and that’s honestly the most important thing.” “If you have to choose, I’d much rather have the situation we’re in, which is [that] we’ve had some delays and we’ve had to revise down guidance. I’ll choose that any day over taking some flops.”
Either Zelnick means that Take-Two hasn’t had a financially disappointing release for as long as he can remember, or he’s already forgotten about NBA 2K23 and the GTA remasters, but alright, alright, I would agree with a toned down version of that statement—it’s true that Take-Two doesn’t release a lot of duds. Evolve and Battleborn come to mind as 2K-published games that were extinguished before burning as bright as the publisher would’ve liked, but neither felt like Anthem-scale bombs.
Zelnick then went on to deliver his version of the endlessly repeated (and wrongly attributed to Shigeru Miyamoto) industry wisdom that a delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad. “If you have to choose, I’d much rather have the situation we’re in, which is [that] we’ve had some delays and we’ve had to revise down guidance,” Zelnick said. “I’ll choose that any day over taking some flops. That’s really the key in this business. We’ve had issues—we’ve been around long enough to remember them—where in the past we’ve had delays in titles, and it was ultimately always worth waiting for, because when we got to the other side, the results were delivered and the small amount of time delay didn’t ultimately matter in the context of the results we were able to deliver. I’m hopeful that’ll be the case here as well.”
I think we can safely assume that GTA 6 is among the big Take-Two games contributing to the company’s positive outlook for the future. Rockstar announced earlier this year that the next game in the series is “well underway,” and then a bunch of details about it were distributed following a hack. Regarding that hack, Zelick said during today’s call that the incident was “terribly unfortunate,” but that there’s “no evidence that any material assets were taken.”
Another place we can find hints about Take-Two’s upcoming games is the list of game titles that leaked out of an Nvidia server last year. Nvidia dismissed the list as testing material, but a lot of games on it have since been announced for PC—too many for it to be a coincidence. The games related to Take-Two on that list were “Bioshock 2022,” “BioShock RTX Remaster,” and “XCOM 3.”
I somehow doubt that we’re going to see a new BioShock game this year, but 2K did confirm in 2019 that a new BioShock is in development. Maybe “2022” was just someone’s wishful thinking, but it could easily be a part of the slate of games coming out by early 2025, as could XCOM 3. If it truly exists, it seems like something we could hear about next year, after Marvel’s Midnight Suns has had some time in the spotlight.
And speaking of Firaxis, Civilization 7 could also happen in this timeframe. It hasn’t been announced or even teased at this point, but Take-Two’s strategy studio was recently looking for a narrative lead with a “knowledge and passion for world history,” and I’m pretty sure that’s not because it wants to produce historical romance novels or practice for Jeopardy! appearances.