Take-Two Sees Video Game Discs Becoming Outdated

Dow Jones08-07 21:51

0951 ET - Take-Two Interactive Software sees a disc-less future for the video game industry. The company already sells about 90% of its games digitally because "discs don't really make sense for the consumer" anymore, Chief Executive Strauss Zelnick tells analysts on a call. Zelnick thinks discs will stick around for nostalgic purposes, similarly to vinyl records, but that the majority of gamers will register online to play digitally. "If you're already connected, like, who cares if you download digitally? It's all the same and it's much more convenient," Zelnick says. "That's where the world is going in our opinion."

 

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