Take-Two Chairman Maintains GTA IV Bug Free

In an interview with CNBC yesterday Strauss Zelnick, Take-Two’s chairman denied any technical problems have sprung up with the record-breaking GTA IV. Maybe he’s just high off of the half-billion bucks his title has brought in after the first week alone, but that’s a particularly rosy (more like inaccurate) way to look at the game.

When asked if there were any problems, Zelnick replied, “None whatsoever,” and offered a ludicrously lame anecdote. “I'd say the only issue is that someone came up to me yesterday in a restaurant and said ‘my thumbs are hurting from the weekend.’”

Come to think of it, my digits hurt too, but that’s partly due to flipping off my Xbox after it froze for the tenth time. In fairness, my basement has some heavy dust and my machine could use a clean. Nevertheless, it’s easy to forgive the faults of GTA IV, but it’s also clearly not perfect. Sure it’s the buzz of just about every media outlet on the planet, but the game has had several reports of problems with frozen intro screens in both the PS3 and Xbox360 versions.

My blood-thirsty friend Nico Belic doesn’t like being lied to. I don’t either.

[Via Next-Gen]