According to the mysteriously-named Playstation Blog, Michael Shorrock, the Director of Third Party Relations at SCEA, has announced that Geoff Keighly has announced that Rockstar Games has announced an exclusive, brand new franchise for the PS3. Rockstar has mentioned before that the 360 gave the company some considerable challenges due to the lack of disc storage capacity and how poor people aren't required to get a hard drive, so it comes as no shock that they would want to "make a game that you can truly only do on the Playstion 3..."
The game is NOT LA Noire, but a completely original, previously-unannounced franchise. This is going to go a long way in silencing the rumors of the GTA-makers preference towards Microsoft's console due to the exclusive episodic content and Rockstar spokesman Hosi Simon's recent comments regarding which version of GTAIV consumers should pick up.
No matter what happens, whether this game is the next Midnight Club or an arbitrary disappointment like Bully, Red Dead Revolver, State of Emergency, Manhunt, or the Warriors, fanboys are going to mark this one down as a major victory. It is, considering Xbox 360 gets a few sporadic episodes and Sony gets, you know, a whole game, but the one thing the world doesn't need is more Chad Wardens. Or Mexicans.
This is normally the part where I would pick a fight with a Dtoid community member and spam a few hundred comments but wouldn't you know it, it's already been done this week...
[Thanks to Kittridge, the wildest tipper in the West.]
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5:19 AM on 07.28.2007
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Oh, and I'm just posting to let you know that the title pic has been saved to my desktop and is 5 minutes away from getting manipulated to death by the latest in photoshop technology.
PP (heh), it's not. It's a completely new, unannounced franchise.
Also, if anyone makes any exceptionally awesome versions of that image, I will replace the normal one with yours in the morning.
This had better not be a Project Sylpheed then!
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@Haley - tell me you've seen A Man's Country (or Gunsmoke)! Audie Murphy ftw!
On topic - Sony really razzle-dazzled me with this one. I thought they had given up on bribery.. but if this game wows me like GTAIII, I might have to sell myself to a thousand fat chicks for $50 bones a piece to finance a PS3.
If your from the future then tell me sir "WHAT OF DONUTS?!?! ARE THEY ALL GONE???"
I just hope its another mature game, id love to see what they could do in the sci-fi action/adventure genre. Theres so much bullshit in that genre that i think if anyone could bring some style to it my moneys on Rockstar.
L.A. Noir is something that id love to play (huge Maltesese Falcon/Chinatown fan) but apart from that trailer last year...Nothing. Perhaps ill have to don my mac coat and go on my own investigation. Hmm...
Agreed Pudding awesomeness has no limit in the domain of time.
What ever console has the dominant lead in 2 years will have just about every 3rd party putting all it's games on there, PS2 style.
If that ends up being the Wii, then there will be detail removed versions of RE5 and GTA:IV on the system, as well as what ever supposed "exclusive" this is supposed to be.
I think GTA is easily their worst series.
Given Rockstar's non-GTA sales track-record, the couple of more PS3's that are sold by GTAIV won't make up for the the investment they'd have to make.
Also: I really don't think they could give a fuck.
@TwistedImp: You are now my hero for the weekend! I will now fap to that instead of pictures of Leigh. Wait what?
Hardly a pick me up.
Moron.
It's funny because i'm sure if this new exclusive was made for the 360 you would be the first to tell us how cool this is.
I also love how easily it is to get on your nerves. Guys like me live to bug the hell out of people like you. And don't deny it in a follow-up comment, you know it's true.
Whatever. I've disproved that "omg anti PS3 omg" bullshit so many times, I don't need to again.
More games make gamers happy.
I'm still quite skeptical of whatever this IP is, since I really didn't like Manhunt and the other non-GTA R* just never interested me much (though Bully is something I'll be getting eventually). However, R* do scale very well and if it says that it's working on a size that only the PS3 can handle, I'm almost intimidated by what they're going to give us.
@JIM
sounds like you get intimidated easily...do cocktail wieners make you blush?....lol, but yeah if its PS3 only I do imagine it will be big (data wise)
I really do think it's time that MS starts requiring the HDD on some games. I understand the purpose of the core and how important it is in their approach, but it's time to mature the games a bit. If games like Guitar Hero II can require an additional piece of hardware (and sell really well at that), why can't other games require other hardware, like an HDD? Honestly, who doesn't have an HDD anyways?
of course we need more mexicans!!!!!
hot monkey love, FTW!!!!
Well as this comes as a no surprise its just a shame they couldnt go all out with GTA4 like they wanted to until the M$ bribe. Same with Stragehold, its obvious, you have 25/50gig of space to make a game compared to 4/8gig its a no brainer. Those up there saying more space is bullshit I think you need mental help lol.
Even dough I agree with BlackDove, other from GTA I havent been moved much by R* but lets hope they do something interesting.
Hopefully these games won't be crap. Rockstar either hits home runs or just fails utterly miserably.