Take-Two has offered the clearest hint yet that they've plans for the Red Dead series, after CEO Strauss Zelnick, speaking at a conference, confirmed Red Dead alongside Grand Theft Auto and Borderlands as a permanent franchise.
"The risk of just [releasing more games] is that you end up just bulking up your release schedule and that isn't really what consumers want. Consumers want better, not more," he said at a Cowen and Company Analyst conference (and via GameSpot).
"So our selective approach, which we've taken since '07 I think has paid off. Now, we have gotten more by taking that approach; we've launched one new successful franchise every year and I would like to keep doing that particularly because I talk about permanent franchises, but not everything is going to be a permanent franchise. Some of our great franchises eventually will lose their lustre and some will hopefully be permanent."
He then went on to reveal the franchises that he considers permanent: "I pretty much know the ones that I can assure you are permanent. It's obvious that GTA is a permanent franchise as long as we keep delivering this incredible quality; it seems quite obvious that Red Dead is a permanent franchise, again with the same caveat, or Borderlands, for example, and NBA and others."
Rockstar recently confirmed that they were working on an unannounced game for new-gen consoles, coming next year (we speculate on what that could be here). Might that game be Red Dead flavoured? Maybe we'll know more at E3...