Grand Theft Auto IV is many things, but one thing it is not is THQ's Saints Row. But maybe someone should tell Canadian retailer Future Shop (owned by Best Buy Corporation), who clearly doesn't seem to know the difference.
Destructoid community member Zero Iscariot sends us this photo of a poster used to promote a GTA IV midnight launch at a Future Shop in Hamilton, Ontario. So what's wrong with this picture? While it was clearly designed to mirror the style of the classic GTA cover art, all of the images are art and screenshots from Saints Row. Whoops!
Surely the folks at Rockstar -- who I'm sure would care to distance themselves as far away from THQ's game as possible -- must have goons on speed dial to take care of problems like these.
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9:10 AM on 04.30.2008
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I don't understand why people would bother when they have the real cover art near to hand.
It's like when that official Sony site had images of Project Gotham Racing 3 up saying they were from Gran Turismo HD. WHOOPS!
Did you happen to save that?
Unfortunately I didn't by the time I remembered it the game had already been sold, I took a look in my history and it's not there :(
If that's an inside joke, its fucking brilliant!
if its not: FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLL :-)
trolling attempt 2/10. better luck next time!
I guess I went to the wrong midnight release (EB Games).
But regardless, if that was an inside joke (to the employees and maybe to the gaming community as a whole) that's pretty cool.
... "I fell of the Jungle Gym and when I woke up I'm in here"...