While Take-Two is riding high on their announcement that a GTA 6 trailer is coming, its CEO has some…interesting ideas on how much video games could cost, part of a contingent of executives that believe games are underpriced, given their cost, length or some combination of the two.
Just another money grubbing ceo with zero interest in, or aptitude for making great products.
The interest in or aptitude of is irrelevant for the position of CEO. The CEO’s skill lies in increasing shareholder value, period, end of discussion. I don’t get why people still buy into the idea that CEOs give a good god damn about consumer’s opinions of quality - they never have.
A good ceo balances shareholders, employees, and products. I have had a lot of ceos and most have been shareholder focused, but a few have tried to keep all the plates spinning. In my opinion, that’s what you need to do to have a healthy company that can be successful long term. Most of the time they come in and manipulate things for short term gain, then bail with millions.
Because it’s deeply dysfunctional how much of our society is driven by this shortsighted approach. A lot people are not surprised by it at this point, but just explaining and accepting that shareholder value is the only thing that matters to them doesn’t really fix the issues. And there’s a lot more issues caused by this than just how fun some games are.
We are beyond asking how it works or why, we should be asking what should be done about it.