User blog comment:The Milkman/What Makes the Cowboy Cool/@comment-10278667-20121007222135/@comment-26435037-20121009052523

Rockstar is not a company that makes a game in a few months - they prefer to work on a game for severel years so the game would be high quietly.

Take for example everyone's favorite Red Dead Redemption: eraly development has already began in 2006, when "Red Dead 2" was used for a teaser trailer for RAGE. Actual production began in 2008 - "Officially", it took Rockstar two years of development. This is how ALL developers should treat their games.

Another example is Max Payne 3. It the game not one or two years of development, but 8 years. Unfortunely, the game was met with lower scores than GTA, Red Dead or (even) LA Noire. (just so you would know, it took 5-6 years for LA Noire). The game also sold less than LA Noire, though it is possibly because of Diablo 3.

So, anyway, mainly because of such "failure", not only you won't see a new Red Dead game in the next few years, but you can also expect that it would take forever waiting to GTA 5.

Sadly, such short production time (of 6 months to 1 year) does not affect other games such as Activision's Call of Duty or Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed. It all about money :(