OK, first of all -- if you seriously thought you were going to see the Xbox 360-exclusive Grand Theft Auto IV downloadable content this year, you're a fool. Or Microsoft.
During some super cereal-sounding BMO Capital Markets Conference in New York City today, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said of the DLC: "It's close to being complete. That said, it may move into the second quarter. Downloadable content is a big undertaking. It's important to be really special."
Well, it certainly should be "special" -- putting out, say, a handful of half-assed maps nearly a year after the game's release just wouldn't cut it. At this point, gamers should be expecting mind-blowing, game-changing content.
And the Nintendo DS title Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars? Zelnick says we probably won't see that until the first half of the fiscal year (read: hopefully by April).
So there you have it, no more new Grand Theft Auto for you in 2008. Might we suggest an alternative?
[Via MTV Multiplayer]
Contest:
8:22 PM on 11.13.2008
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Too bad Saints Row 2 has all my Open-Gang-World Attention Right now.
Also, i found that the protagonist is in fact a giant douche who should have probably died in the first one. I'm not one who focuses on story usually at all, but SR2 really opened my eyes to how important it can be to a game. Going through the missions i found i really did not give a shit whether my character lived or died, or about the future of the saints. they were truly a bunch of assholes you wish would just die.
I for one still look forward to GTA IV DLC and will probably end up playing it far more than SR2
Whatever helps you sleep at night.