As we discussed this weekend, PSW magazine was claiming that Grand Theft Auto IV's Lost & Damned DLC would be coming to PlayStation 3 this year. Naturally, Microsoft has clambered from the woodwork to quash any speculation on the subject, naturally denying everything.
Microsoft's reaction to the rumor has been blunt, but it got the message across: "The episodes are exclusive to Xbox 360." What more needs to be said?
Of course, if you want to extrapolate, and you do, one could easily argue that MS is truthful in saying the episodes are exclusive right now. At the time of speaking, the episodes are indeed 360 exclusive, but that doesn't mean they will always be that way. If you want to shine MS' comment in that light, you can easily do so.
Right now, Sony is refusing to comment, and Take-Two has also declined to further the discussion. This means the official line is that the Xbox 360 is the only place you can find Lost & Damned. Who knows what the future holds, however?
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i think it's wrong of Microshaft to screw PS3 users like that, but personally couldn't give a fuck. I'll take blu-ray, free online, charging (motion) controllers and reliability over DLC for a shite game anyday.
Also, Sexualchocolate doesn't represent the majority of Sony fans, not unlike myself, But he's a pretty good troll.
Yes, yes he is.
Apart from the silly money MS must have paid for the exclusivity, I don't see why it doesn't come out on PS3 - it's certainly a great add-on that should be enjoyed by all, not just us welfare-scrounging, bottom-feeding, unit-wrapping-and-sending Xbots.
You readers are gonna have to fucking decide. Do I hate Xbox or do I hate PS3? Make up your minds people, I can't take the constant back-and-forth on this!!!!
Though judging by the immaturity of the fanboyism, I'd guess your step-father plays xbox 360 when he is not sexually abusing you.
Microsoft only had a deal to buy 2 exclusive GTAIV Episodes for the Xbox 360 but they're timed exclusives.
Only exclusive for 6 months on Xbox 360.
It came out in February for 360 that's means by August it'll come out on the PS3.
Microsoft should know by now that 3rd party devs aren't loyal.
Sony figured that out a long time ago about time Microsoft did the same and start investing in their own 1st/2nd party titles.
Sexualchocolate is also retarded.
Also Jim hates video games yet is the king of video games. Ironic?
I don't care if PS3 owners get their hands on this delightful piece of DLC, the more, the merrier to me.
I'm fairly certain Jim is an Equal Opportunity Bullshit Caller. No matter how some of his posts in the past have irked me, he's spread the love with his distaste for marketing double-talk (or half-talk in this case).
...Of Microshitting fagtarts. Whatever the fuck that is.
Get an avatar if you want to be taken seriously.
Well, you'll never be taken seriously, but an avatar we can all laugh at wouldn't hurt.
Whatever dude. I'm so over these cliques on Dtoid...
Why can't MS say that it's not a timed exclusive instead of repeating what their DLC ad campaign states? Why are Take-Two keeping quiet?
Yes
And also, Sexualchocolate is a retard.
Such a conundrum.
Are you retarded? No comment!........Why not just say no, it wont ruin your image unless you are in fact, retarded....So my this I guess PS3 is getting the DLC :)
Will I buy it? Fuck no.
Seriously though, I was personally dissapointed by GTA4. Just didn't have the depth and replayability of San Andreas. Nor the out and out brutality of Vice City. The violence was too, justified. I wanted to be the bad guy, not the guy who has to get a bit violent for a good cause.
I would still have liked to give L&D a play through, probably only one though, but Microshaft had to pay for me to not get the opportunity. Purely because I put more than £200 into my gaming console. Seems silly. In fact, not silly, it's plain nasty. Microshatf are getting themselves into debt, just to create an uneven playing field.
When I hear kids saying 360 is BETTER than PS3 to their parents, simply because GTA4 has an extra episode, it makes me sick. Its M$'s underhanded, shady, immoral, should-be-illegal, offensive marketing campaign.
It's simple...
Japs - great hardware, great software, great value, great customer support, future compatibility, innovative design and features.
Yanks - shit hardware, dodgy deals, underhanded techniques, broken promises (and errorboxes) fooled customers and big profits.
More of Sonychoc's, oh so relevant, made-up marhet research...
"Japs - great hardware, great software, great value, great customer support, future compatibility, innovative design and features.
Yanks - shit hardware, dodgy deals, underhanded techniques, broken promises (and errorboxes) fooled customers and big profits."
Sonychoc's Twatometer in overdrive.