There's not much meat on the bones of this story yet, but a murmur has surfaced hinting that Rockstar will soon be going PS3 exclusive once the multi-platform Grand Theft Auto IV is released. The rumor comes from Play Magazine, which claimed in its GTAIV preview:
"The game is both PS3 and 360, but Rockstar has suggested that all further game development is going to be PS3 exclusive."
I'm not sure what to make of that. If it's true, then that's a huge potential success for Sony, but at the same time, it's difficult to believe that Rockstar would choose to restrict its consumer base, especially with Bully: Scholarship Edition pegged for release on the Wii and 360. That, and any potential hostile takeovers could put paid to such an ideal.
It's a bit of a stretch for the moment until more details arise, so this is definitely in the rumor camp for now. If by some bizarre turn of events it turns out to be true though, it could be a most ... interesting development in the current-gen console war.
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11:57 AM on 02.25.2008
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Of course, Mircosoft would probably counter with their own blank check resulting in a bidding war for exclusivity rights for GTAV
Shareholders
If Sony bought out the shres from shareholder or what not it could be possible if Rockstars shareholders did in fact want to sell, unlike Yahoo to Microsoft.
I think it will stay multi-platform.
I was saying that Sony could purchase Rockstar through it's share holders and I threw in the Yahoo thing as an example as shareholders can say no thanks.
I was talking about 2 stories, not confusing them.
Tell that to THQ, who canned PS3 development of Frontlines, or Valve, who's not making their next game on PS3, or 2K Boston, who didn't even consider putting Bioshock on PS3.
Exclusivity is a 2-way street. Don't make it seems so terrible if the PS3 gets exclusives, yet the 360 has a bunch, and nobody complains. Or do people STILL.....STILL!!!! want to keep up the statement of "PS3 has no games"?????
What KingMe said.
That's because right now in the eyes of developers, the 360 is the console with the bigger sales and more owners, so therefore they'll be looking to either make it a 360 exclusive and make it easier for them cause they don't have to port it to the PS3, or make it multiplatform and have more sales. To them, loosing sales of PS3 owners doesn't seem like much but loosing sales from 360 owners is alot.
"Hey guys, I got a good idea, lets NOT make millions of dollars"
Maybe they mean they are going to make an exclusive game for PS3, as opposed to going completely PS3. The 360 market is way to big to completely ignore...
Consider the GTAIV exclusive episodes; there's probably about 3 of them coming- the first being released this fall.. with episode 2 and 3 probably stretched out over several months each.. we'll still be getting content until Spring/Summer 2009!
Will they just cut us off for good after that? That would seem insulting to all Rockstar supporters on Xbox 360 if this rumor proves to be true..
OH WELL- we still have 'APB' coming out for PC and 360.
I didn't know that they wern't publicly traded. I get what you mean now, my bad.
That's Space Station Silicon Valley isn't it? was it rockstar who made that? I thought they only did body harvest on the N64
Why would they abandon Microsoft when they're rolling in their money?
I agree with Carac, it is much more likely that they intend to start using the PS3 as the lead platform and that Play Magazine have simply mis-interpreted whatever rumours they have heard.
ya thats it it was made by DMA design (now rockst*r north)
$50 million M$ paid for the DLC.
BUT... Setting the Record Straight on GTA DLC. Possible Exclusive Content for PS3. Well THEORETICALLY possible.
Also if I remember correctly Rockstar was prepared to make GTA4 a PS3 exclusive if Ken Kutaragi said he wanted it to be....but he didn't because he's a crazy old man, so rockstar took Microsoft's offer and jumped ship with GTA but that doesn't mean they're not inclined to go PS3 exclusive... and GTA3 and Halo3 proves you can make money on a one console exclusive game if it's big enough
Oh shit yeah I completely forgot! man those games were awesome! Body Harvest especially... just wikipedia'ed DMA, they made lemmings too AMAZING!!!
Like possibly putting Hillary Clinton look-a-likes as hookers into the game. LULZ!
Does any body besides me miss the old style gta games. I kinda wish the portables weren't able to do 3d just so we could get a new one
Im going for a walk down to the train tracks...
I mean look at Bully - fantastic game but sold like a turd sandwich which means that Rockstar may not have so much to lose by making a PS3 exclusive game and naming their price to Sony... who knows maybe there's a 360 exclusive game in the works as well (that isn't GTA related)
I simply doubt MS would let this happen after the premium they paid to get GTAIV on day one, right alongside the PS3. The house that Gates built just won't let it happen.
Plus, as has been mentioned, there are already games in development for the 360 and unless they were outright canned, which in and of itself would cost loads of dollars on this point in sunk costs, it wouldn't be true.
I'm gonna lean toward "PS3 will be the lead dev platform" over "fuck the 360."