Take-Two talks about GTA 6 competing with Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Take-Two has weighed in on Grand Theft Auto 6 competing with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

November is filled with two huge games. Nintendo just released Zelda, and next week, Grand Theft Auto 6 will launch. These are two of the biggest titles of the year, and because of how close together they’re being released, some view it as competition.

Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive, recently weighed in on the situation. Speaking with GamesBeat, Zelnick had praise for Zelda. He also spoke about how entertainment products have to compete for consumers’ attention, noting that “there are so many ways consumers can spend their time.” That said, if you “make the best entertainment on earth,” then “people will show up for it.”

Zelnick shared the following:

“It’s terrific, and they should be very proud of the title. In the entertainment business, you compete against everything and nothing.

Everything because there’s so many ways consumers can spend their time, and nothing because if there’s nothing good out there, people don’t need to consume any of it. It’s like food; like food could be bad, but you still are going to be hungry. But in the case of entertainment, it’s not a must-have; it’s a want to have. So it’s our job to make the best entertainment on earth. When we do that, people will show up for it.”

Recently, Nintendo was asked about GTA 6 coming to Switch 2, but the company was mostly quiet on that front. In other news, an Activision executive claimed that GTA 6 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 are the biggest games of 2026 while saying “no offense to Zelda.”