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"We're in the business of making great big hits", Take-Two CEO says after shuttering good studios and selling good indie publisher Private Division to a mystery buyer

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Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has commented on the company’s decision to sell indie publisher Private Division, after shuttering some studios.
Remember when it looked like Take-Two was shutting down both Kerbal Space Program 2 developer Intercept Games and Roll7 – the studio behind Rollerdrome and OlliOlli World only for Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick to then say that it “didn’t shutter” those studios? Well, Take-two’s now confirmed those shutterings, as well as the sale of indie publisher Private Division.
Yep, after reports had claimed – based on internal documentation and a notice filed in Washington – that the studios were being closed, they now definitively have been.
A Take-Two spoksperson confirmed as much to GamesIndustry.Biz, which also spoke to Zelnick about the sale of Private Division to a mystery buyer to be revealed “relatively soon”, which was confirmed in Take-Two’s latest earnings call.

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