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Grand Theft Auto IV Unveiled On 360
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Zonk
on Tue May 09, 2006 03:03 PM
from the didn't-expect-that dept.
from the didn't-expect-that dept.
Despite expectations that this would be the least eventful of the E3 pre-conferences, Microsoft's Peter Moore drops the news that Grand Theft Auto IV will be on Xbox 360. Rockstar and Microsoft have teamed up to do exclusive episodic content in the GTA gameworld for the 360. Slated to release October 16, 2007 in North America, October 19 in Europe. Other details include lots of support for Live Arcade titles (Sonic, Galaga, Street Fighter II), the official unveiling of Shadowrun for the 360 and PC, the airing of the Halo 3 Teaser Trailer (which is already on Xbox Live), and much discussion of 'Live Anywhere'. This last is an expansion of Xbox Live to PC and cell platforms in addition to the Xbox arena.
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Exclusive GTA IV Content for PS3 Too 52 comments
One of Microsoft's happy announcements at this year's E3 was exclusive content for Grand Theft Auto IV on the Xbox 360. Eurogamer is now reporting that the PS3 will get its own exclusive content for Rockstar's next chapter in the GTA series. From the article: "How many additional areas or episodes Rockstar is planning is anyone's guess at this juncture, but it seems the game is at least being structured to accommodate a number of expansive new content releases in the weeks and months after release, while also satisfying platform holder - and console owner - demand for exclusive material. Though with 'exclusive' being a somewhat elastic term these days, especially where Grand Theft Auto is concerned, we wouldn't be remotely surprised if you end up playing 'exclusive' 360 episodes on your PS3, and vice versa. One thing's for sure - there's nothing more certain to piss off the fanboys than a level playing field. "
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Microsoft Shells Out $50 Million For GTA IV Content 189 comments
Ars Technica is reporting on the highly-anticipated downloadable content for GTA IV mentioned by Microsoft at last year's E3. It appears that, first off, that content is only coming to the Xbox 360. Secondly, Microsoft paid some $50 Million for the privilege. This is from a financials conference call held by Take Two, and a question about a deferred payment from Microsoft reveals the general release schedule for the content. "The first 25 [million] is for the first episodic content package that's supposed to go out and that is in March of '08. That's why it moved into current because it's in the next 12 months. The second 25 [million] will be for the second episodic, the episode, and that will be later in fiscal '08."
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Gamespot says no. (Score:2, Insightful)
XBox 360 with 20GB hard drive ($400) + HD-DVD drive addon ($100?) + 1 year XBox Live ($50) = $550.
Playstation 3 with 20GB hard drive ($500) + Bluray drive (included) + 5 years online (included) = $500.
Sony are the arrogant ones here, though, right? OK, just checking. I'm finding it increasingly hard to keep track.
By the way, Zonk, GTA4 isn't an XBox exclusive. [gamespot.com]
WRONG... episodic releases are exclusive (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.phishyphotos.com/)
The Xbox version will have "episodic releases" via Xbox Live.
Re:WRONG... episodic releases are exclusive (Score:5, Funny)
(http://nothingtoseehere.us/)
Oh goodie. I'm glad companies are finally listening to me, the consumer. I'm sick of buying a game and then having it. I'd much rather be nickle-and-dimed for additional content as it's made available to me at their discretion.
GTA on 360 and PS3 (Score:5, Interesting)
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It is NOT a 360 exclusive. (Score:1, Informative)
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Rockster press release [yahoo.com]
Rockstar Games Announces Grand Theft Auto IV for the Xbox 360(TM) and PlayStation(R)3 Computer Entertainment System Tuesday May 9, 3:15 pm ET
It will be on the 360 first, but it will be on the PS3 as well.
Re:It is NOT a 360 exclusive. (Score:4, Informative)
(http://www.intellectualjourney.com/ | Last Journal: Wednesday April 27 2005, @12:58PM)
"Grand Theft Auto IV will be simultaneously available for the PlayStation®3 and Xbox 360(TM)"
I think that settles it.
The other news... (Score:3, Funny)
"What is that in Bill's hands? He's holding a tiny white object and can't stop fiddling with it."
Finally! News that Bill truly is one of us - except hes probably more compulsive about the whole thing.
halo3 (Score:1, Offtopic)
(Last Journal: Wednesday May 16 2007, @12:43PM)
From the Article (Score:3, Funny)
(Last Journal: Monday May 22 2006, @07:16PM)
I roll with Mario (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I roll with Mario (Score:5, Funny)
(http://doghole.blogspot.com/)
Wow (Score:1)
(http://slashdot.org/)
You know someday Bill Gates is going to turn into an eccentric billionair that'll make Howard Hughes look like Mr Normalperson.
Unified Live!! (Score:5, Interesting)
Ves
Live Anywhere & Cost? (Score:1)
Re:Live Anywhere & Cost? (Score:4, Interesting)
Nearly every single Live Player has a voice communication mike. You don't have to deal with cheaters on live (I have never encountered a cheater on live, and I am not aware of any cheating software - the only kind of cheating I am aware of is sometimes player intentionaly lower their bandwidth to cause themselves to lag... but there is no software they lets people see through walls or aimbots or whatever like on the PC)... every player has an ID tied to their credit card, so people are less likely to engage in racist/stupid behavior, and when they do I can permanently ban them from my games. I can maintain an integrated list of all the players I like, send them an invitation to play directly from the game, I can see what games they are playing directly from the game.
It is definitly worth the $60 a year for the service they offer.
Next you'll tell me it has FPSes and sports games (Score:2, Funny)
How innovative!
Most likely (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://slashdot.org/)
What no one is mentioning is the PC release. Rockstar tends to wait for a few months after console release before releasing the PC version. They're not being jerks. They're retooling it for the purpose of bringing it over to PC. That's why the GTA series hasn't suffered from consolitis, by and large. I'll be looking forward to GTA IV on the PC, even if I have to wait half a year.
Why the uproar? (Score:2, Informative)
San Andreas is really 5 (V).
Any NEW GTA whatever the name would technically be 6 or 7 (if you count Liberty City Stories).
Re:Why the uproar? (Score:4, Informative)
(http://www.fantasticdamage.com/)
I don't know if this is still the case but I remember them making a big deal about it between the release of Vice City and San Andreas.
Numbering scheme? (Score:2)
(http://slashdot.org/)
GTA I, II and III were normal. Then we got Vice City and San Andreas, which would be IV and V respectively.
They're now suddenly going back to using normal numerical systems? What are VC and SA then? III.III and III.VII?
Re:Numbering scheme? (Score:5, Informative)
They can stick their 'episodic content' up their.. (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm sick of this crap where game companies think they can get $1.00 out of us for what would have been $0.10 of content had it been in an expansion pack, or included in the game to begin with. I'm also pissed at all the stupid moron gamers that buy this crap that 'costs less than a cup of coffee' because they don't understand that they're paying way more money in the long run; thus letting the micropayment mind-games continue.
I wish one of the next-gen consoles didn't have an online component, so they wouldn't be able to pull this crap. I'd buy that console instead of the other ones.
Good news for the 360 (Score:2)
(Though I'll probably get one when it comes down in price.)
Why did you change the title and text? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Cell platforms? (Score:2)
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This last is an expansion of Xbox Live to PC and cell platforms in addition to the Xbox arena.
Okay, am I completely misreading this or does that open the door to PS3 vs XBox 360 over XBox Live?
Probably not, but it's an interesting possibility.
Whores! (Score:2)
All was good when the top-down view games were on PC first, just as god intended. But then they sold out to Sony for GTA3-5. Now they sold themselves to MS for 360. Thankfully, being the whores they are, they'll release a PC version sooner or later, but I'll still be pissed off when I'm the only one not getting any...
What is sony doing? (Score:1)
(http://xybapodcast.blogspot.com/ | Last Journal: Friday December 08 2006, @10:06AM)
Wow (Score:3, Insightful)
What is MS going to talk about at next year's E3, Halo 8, arriving at your local game store October 7, 2059.
No More GTA games! (Score:2)
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What's with this episodic stuff? (Score:1)
(http://www.metapenguin.org/)
Could somebody please explain to me why so many developpers (think Valve) have lately become obsessed with episodic games? What is the point in that, besides the obvious money milking argument?
deja vu (Score:1)
(http://shashdot.org/)
Missing the point as always (Score:1, Insightful)
The point is, most of us don't have 1080p TV's with a massive sound system. Most of us don't have a need to watch bluray/HD-DVD movies, and won't want it until netflix start distributing it. And even then, we need 1080p to enjoy it.
I don't want to spend an extra $200/$250 for hardware I don't need or want. I want to play games. Nintendo and, to a lesser degree, Microsoft get this.
MS will be the real winner here. They get to keep the bad-ass hardware image with a close-to-Wii price. That's going to sell huge, especially with 720p sets hitting the sweet spot price point in the next 3-5 years. Look for a $50 price cut in November followed by some high quality 2nd gen games to compete with Wii and gut PS3.
Grand Theft Auto (Score:1)
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XBOX 360 still an eBay exclusive (Score:1)
For that matter, the $500 price on the PS3 is the price to eBay sellers who will be camping out and buying every unit available (all 10 or so) during the first few months of its release. The general public can expect to pay much more per unit.
Re:GTAIV this holiday. (Score:5, Insightful)
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060509/20060509006185.htm
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2006--Rockstar Games, the universally-renowned publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO - News), is proud to announce Grand Theft Auto IV, the next-generation console debut of the genre-defining Grand Theft Auto franchise. Developed by world-class designers Rockstar North, Grand Theft Auto IV will be simultaneously available for the PlayStation®3 and Xbox 360(TM) and is currently planned to be in stores in North America on October 16, 2007 and in Europe on October 19, 2007.
Re:GTAIV this holiday. (Score:2)
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Re:What kind of 'exclusive'? (Score:1)
Some of these games are ported so poorly that attention is barely paid to the controls specific to the platform (e.g. Keyboard + Mouse = PC).
Is it just me, or did games that were written for PCs and then ported to the console seem to be much better than games apparantly written the other way around?
Soon they will be writing these things in java.
Re:GTAIV this holiday. (Score:1)
Still pretty awesome though
Re:GTAIV this holiday. (Score:1)
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Re:What kind of 'exclusive'? (Score:5, Insightful)
So, whatever is the case with this GTA exclusivity for 360, it's a huge blow against sony. In north america at least.
Re:You know what that means? (Score:2)
DOA4 is here
DOAX2 is coming
HALO 3 is coming
GTA 4 is coming
Madden for the 360 sucks.
It's finally reaching a point that I might think it's worth getting one.
PS3:
Nothing is here.
The console itself if coming... eventually.
Madden for the 360 sucks.
Wii:
Nothing is here.
The console is coming, but won't take advantage of my HDTV anyway.
Madden for the 360 sucks.
Amid the 360 hype (from haters and fanboys alike), I've mostly been sitting on the side-lines to see what Sony and Nintendo would be offering before chosing which new-gen console (if any) I would buy. With this announcement, Rockstar has just made the decision a little bit easier for me.
In spite of Madden sucking, I'm leaning more and more towards the 360.
Re:You know what that means? (Score:4, Interesting)
The X-Box exclusive DOA series is *almost* enough on its own to make me want a 360, and hopes for more HALO games also has me rather jazzed over it. My "wait and see" attitude has mostly been based on a fondness for GTA:III & GTA:VC, which were exclusive to the PS2 for about a year.
If Sony does not have the GTA series locked up in their stable, what is there left to wait and see? BluRay? The Wii controller?
Re:What kind of 'exclusive'? (Score:3, Informative)
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Re:Really? (Score:2)
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Re:fuck you Zonk (Score:5, Informative)
Grand Theft Auto IV Unveiled As 360 Exclusive
Posted by Zonk on Tuesday May 09, @04:03PM
from the didn't-expect-that dept.
E3 Microsoft XBox (Games)
Despite expectations that this would be the least eventful of the E3 pre-conferences, Microsoft's Peter
Moore drops the news that Grand Theft Auto IV will be an Xbox 360 exclusive.
thank you Mr. AC - please mod up (Score:4, Informative)
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Re:GTAIV this holiday. (Score:2)
Not exactly. Sony and Microsoft are getting the game the same day. Okay, not as exciting, but anybody who didn't want to play San Andreas on the PS2 had to wait something like six months. GTA was actually one of the games that made me consider a PS3, but it's nice to know I have more of a choice now.
I'm still a little saddened, though. I really really want this game on the Wii. I loved San Andreas, but the PS2 controls were exactly the reason I jumped on-board the Nintendo-hype-parade.
It is (Score:2)
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Re:Lost my business... (Score:2)
(http://harryksworld.blogspot.com/)
No worries mate, you'll still get to kill people on your PS3...
Re:Lost my business... (Score:2)
(http://www.pocketgamer.org/)
Re:Shadowrun looks weak... (Score:2)
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Re:Lost my business... (Score:1)
Re:You know what that means? (Score:2)
(http://www.gemstate.net/friends | Last Journal: Tuesday September 11, @10:32AM)
Not every sequal is great or even good.
Re:fuck you Zonk (Score:2)
(http://doghole.blogspot.com/)
I don't blame them at all. Since the Xbox 360 hit, or dropped softly onto, the street, Interweb rumor after Interweb rumor has had GTA being either exclusive to the PS3 or at least coming out way ahead of an Xbox 360 version (said rumors being driven mostly by the franchise history). Given the extreme popularity of the franchise, and the fact that the Xbox 360 will be much cheaper than the PS3, this is indeed a very big deal for Microsoft. While Halo 3 will have the legions of fans of the previous two games, those legions are expected to get 360s anyway. With GTA hitting simultaneous on both boxes, they're going to be able to steal a lot of people who look at the two games, see that whatever differences (the additional episodic content) there are between the two versions play to the benefit of the 360, and decide that paying $100+ extra isn't a great deal.
Re:Halo3 trailer at Bungie.net (Score:3, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Sunday July 01, @08:03AM)
Re:Halo3 trailer at Bungie.net (Score:2, Funny)
Re:GTA 4? eh? (Score:2, Informative)
GTA1 (London being 1.5) - Top Down
GTA2 - 3D accelerated Top Town
GTA3 (Vice City and San Andreas being 3.2 and about 3.6) - 3rd Person
GTA4 - Top down?
Re:fuck you Zonk (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Monday November 27 2006, @04:43PM)
Embarassment isn't the correct word, however. I'm hardly embarassed by being made an ass of. It was actually a good laugh.
What I actually am, though, is one of those sad pathetic men who whine about how much /. sucks these days, and the lack of editing skill of the editors(indeed, the lack of reading skill... *sigh*). Most likely I am jealous of Zonk's job. I would certainly love to get paid to do what he does, or pretends to do, whatever your interpretation of his doings is. I mean... is he actually getting paid to be a fucking jackass, or is he getting paid to be an editor, and is really, actually that bad of an editor?
In reality, we all know with relative certainty that he's paid to produce ad impressions, hence, the jackass option fits pretty well. A paid jackass. That's cozy. I could fucking do that shit, man.
Re:Traitorous bastards... (Score:1)
(http://www.nytimes.com/)
Re:LOL Episodic content (Score:1)
Micropayments will be cheaper in the end.
Re:You know what that means? (Score:2)
Why does Microsoft have to keep buying the games I enjoy (or think I'm going to enjoy), delay their development, and kill every innovative feature, proprietise and homogenize until I have no interest whatsoever.
I remember playing tribes and drooling over the graphics and physics that were supposedly going to be in halo. Then Tribes 2 came out, and suddenly I didn't care. Finally Halo came out on a platform I didn't have anyway, looking very little like it had years before, and vastly less.. errr. vast than promised. I mean seriosly.. goldeneye-like controls, linear play? I shudder to think what they're going to do with rockstar's gem. Well at least there will be plenty of photoshoppy lens flare.
Re:Halo 3 is all that matters (Score:1)