Target General Manager Corporate Affairs Jim Cooper said the decision was made following "extensive community and customer concern about the game." told Polygon that Target Australia is in no way connected to Target U.S.
I stand behind our products, the people who create them, and the consumers who play them."Ī representative of Target in the U.S. Interactive entertainment is today's most compelling art form and shares the same creative freedom as books, television, and movies. " Grand Theft Auto V explores mature themes and content similar to those found in many other popular and groundbreaking entertainment properties. "We are disappointed that an Australian retailer has chosen no longer to sell Grand Theft Auto V - a title that has won extraordinary critical acclaim and has been enjoyed by tens of millions of consumers around the world," Strauss Zelnick, chairman and CEO of Take-Two Interactive Software, publisher of GTA 5, told Polygon in a prepared statement.
29, had reached nearly 41,000 signatures this morning. Today's news comes in the wake of an online petition started by survivors of violence, including sex industry workers, who are calling for the removal of the game from Target. The decision lands a day after Target publicly defended its decision to keep the games in the store.
Target Australia today announced that it was pulling copies of Grand Theft Auto 5 from store shelves in response to complaints from customers about the game's depictions of violence against women.