Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser opens up on Bully 2: "You just can't do all the projects you want"

Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser has opened up on why we by no means obtained a follow-up to 2006’s Bully.

Speaking to IGN at LA Comedian Con, Home was requested why he by no means returned to Jimmy’s life regardless of Bully’s recognition and important acclaim, and his response was each candid and doubtless slightly irritating for many who’d been patiently ready for Bully 2, as he merely attributed it to “bandwidth points”.

“I feel it was simply bandwidth points,” Houser admitted (thanks, InsiderGaming). “You recognize, if you happen to’ve obtained a small lead inventive workforce, and a small senior management crew, you simply cannot do all of the initiatives you need.

“And , we definitely– how we’re structured at [Houser’s current studio] Absurd [Ventures], we’re doing two initiatives with a reasonably small workforce, and it is actually attempting to suppose by way of that. How can we do this and maintain them each shifting?”

Since its unveiling in June 2023, Absurd Ventures has introduced two “universes” – American Caper and A Higher Paradise – supposed to type the premise of a number of transmedia initiatives, starting with a graphic novel and podcast, respectively. In the meantime, a job commercial noticed in Could 2024 confirmed Absurd’s first online game undertaking can also be within the works, and after a tough 12 months for Immortals of Aveum developer Ascendant Studios, a “core workforce” of round 20 staff decamped to Absurd this time final 12 months, establishing a brand new studio now often known as Absurd Marin.

As for Rockstar’s major undertaking in the intervening time? GTA 6 is presently anticipated to launch for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Collection X/S on twenty sixth Could 2026, following its not precisely sudden delay earlier this 12 months. And there is little doubt it is going to be massive; as just lately Take-Two confirmed, GTA 5 has now bought an astonishing 210m copies since its launch 12 years in the past, so it is most likely not unreasonable to presume its massively anticipated sequel will handle to match that after which some.