Take-Two says the Epic Store is 'a good thing,' but exclusives sound very unlikely

Take-Two says the Epic Store is 'a good thing,' but exclusives sound very unlikely

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The launch of the Epic Games Store has been surprisingly controversial, primarily because of Epic's willingness to spend some of that sweet Fortnite cash on high-profile exclusives. A number of gamers don't care for what they see as fragmentation of the market that's forcing them to use multiple storefronts and run multiple launchers: Steam, Origin, Uplay, Battle.net, Bethesda, and now Epic. 

One publisher that could probably leap successfully into that fray, but apparently isn't going to, is Take-Two. The strength of Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption alone would make a proprietary storefront hard to ignore, but CEO Strauss Zelnick told GamesIndustry that he thinks it's difficult to attract an audience "through a wholly-owned captive site." 

Take-Two says the Epic Store is 'a good thing,' but exclusives sound very unlikely

Feb 6, 2019, 8:38pm UTC
https://www.pcgamer.com/take-two-says-the-epic-store-is-a-good-thing-but-exclusives-sound-very-unlikely/ > The launch of the Epic Games Store has been surprisingly controversial, primarily because of Epic's willingness to spend some of that sweet Fortnite cash on high-profile exclusives. A number of gamers don't care for what they see as fragmentation of the market that's forcing them to use multiple storefronts and run multiple launchers: Steam, Origin, Uplay, Battle.net, Bethesda, and now Epic.  > One publisher that could probably leap successfully into that fray, but apparently isn't going to, is Take-Two. The strength of Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption alone would make a proprietary storefront hard to ignore, but CEO Strauss Zelnick told GamesIndustry that he thinks it's difficult to attract an audience "through a wholly-owned captive site."