Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick says the Red Dead Redemption price on Switch and PS4 is excellent value for the money and a “commercially accurate” price for the 13-year old game. Zelnick made the comment during Take-Two’s recent earnings call when IGN asked why Take-Two and Rockstar decided to price the game at nearly the price of a brand-new release.
“That’s just what we believe is the commercially accurate price for it,” Zelnick said. “[Red Dead] was a great standalone game in its own right when it was originally released, so we feel like it’s a great bundle for the first time, and certainly a great value for consumers.”
Zelnick didn’t expand on what “commercially accurate” means to him or who decides the accuracy. The Switch and PS4 version includes the Undead Nightmare DLC, but no changes or enhancements. The open-world game is available on the Xbox store for $29.99 and its DLC for $9.99, and you can get a few solid graphics enhancements if play on Xbox Series X|S via backwards compatibility – a visually superior version for $10 less.
You can buy the PS3 version from Amazon for less than $20 and get the Game of the Year edition in supposedly brand-new condition for $16 from eBay. Meanwhile, other popular PS3 games sell for $19.99 on Switch, including Okami and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Skyrim on Switch costs $59.99, but it includes multiple expansions plus Nintendo-specific add-ons and features. It also goes on sale regularly.
So who can say what commercially accurate actually means. What we can say is that Red Dead Redemption on Switch and PS4 launches digitally on Aug. 17, 2023, and physically later in the fall.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF
