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Wall Street Breakfast

Grand Theft Auto trailer hits early

Wall Street Breakfast

Seeking Alpha

Business News, News, Business, Investing

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

The release date of 2025 for the game puts some pressure on Take-Two shares. (0:15) Job openings slump below 9 million. (2:00) Morgan Stanley spies big smartphone recovery. (4:24)

Show Notes
U.S. strong buy ideas for the next 12 months
Starbucks falls again as concerns rise that holiday quarter may be weak

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0:00.0

Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Lunch, our afternoon update on today's market action news and analysis.

0:11.0

Good afternoon. Today is Tuesday, December 5th, and I'm your host, Kim Khan. Our top story so far.

0:17.0

A leak of the trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6, several hours early, forced Take-Too Interactive to release the full trailer ahead of time, and that surfaced

0:25.0

an unwelcome detail for gamers and investors. The trailer says the long-awaited game is slated for release

0:31.0

in 2025. Many on social media had expected the game to be released in 2024.

0:37.0

Take 2 gap down initially in pre-market and shares are still lower.

0:41.0

The later than expected release of the game is likely to impact the company's sales in the coming fiscal year.

0:47.0

Take-2 recently updated its multi-year guidance, expecting slightly but not materially less than $8 billion in net bookings in fiscal 2025

0:55.5

compared to over 8 billion previously. On Friday, Rockstar, a subsidiary of Take 2,

1:02.0

announced the trailer would be released on December 5th at 9 a.m. Eastern time.

1:06.0

But a leak posted to Twitter forced the publisher to release the trailer late Monday night.

1:11.0

The new game, set in Vice City City is set to come to PlayStation 5 and Xbox

1:16.2

series X and S, but there is no mention about PC or mobile editions. Rockstar founder Sam Hauser says Grand Theft Daughter 6 continues our efforts to push the limits

1:27.0

of what's possible and highly immersive story-driven open-world experiences.

1:31.8

We're thrilled to be able to share this new vision with

1:33.6

players everywhere.

1:35.0

Oppenheimer analyst Martin Yang said the trailer showed a game with quality

1:39.0

beyond expectation despite the prior leaks and high standards set by previous releases from Rockstar.

1:45.0

He also said the first trailer made YouTube history, becoming the fifth most viewed video of the day.

1:50.0

In today's training, the major action is in the bond market with stocks mixed.

1:55.0

The Nas deck leads the S&P and Dow as the Magnificent Seven try and break out of their slump.

2:00.0

Yields are falling as the latest job openings and labor turnover survey or jolts report

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