
As far as video game companies go, Take-Two Interactive is in a stronger position than most. It's still publicly traded and has a strong stable of still relevant franchises, with Borderlands 4 setting series records and GTA 6 on the horizon. The company doesn't take such things for granted, says CEO Strauss Zelnick, as nobody's breaking out the champagne right now.
During a quarterly financials call, Zelnick was asked about being the "last publicly traded standalone publisher of scale standing," likely referencing how EA is now set to be bought out by a conglomerate which includes the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund. "We're always running scared around here," he says.