GTA To Appear On Xbox and Gamecube In 2004

AvantLegion writes "According to this IGN article (which, in turn, is cited from Yahoo! via the Investor's Business Daily), the Grand Theft Auto series will debut on Xbox and GameCube in 2004. A month after the next GTA game is released on PS2 (thus completing Rockstar's exclusive contract with Sony), the Xbox and Gamecube versions of Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City are supposed to hit the streets. No one is safe."

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Re:Progress?

[mapmaker]

Back when you were playing Donkey Kong, adults were playing Leisure Suit Larry. There have always been games targeted to adults that are not suitable for children. This is not new.

The GTA series of games (3 and up, anyway) is for adults. They have an M rating. They are not for children. When my nephews visit me, they are not permitted to play my GTA games. We rent a Spyro the Dragon game or something like that if they want to play a video game.

If more kids are playing adult-oriented games today than they did in the past, that represents a deterioration of our society's parenting skills. It is not a deterioration of the gaming industry.

Re:Progress?

[ChaoticChaos]

1) This is not a computer game. This is a console game. In other words, it is much more accessable to everyone.

2) I saw a study on one of the major gaming sites, and kids *are* playing this game by the ton. You're kidding yourself if you think otherwise.

Re:Progress?

[NanoGator]

"Actually, the funny thing about the prostitution in the game, I never knew about it till the news media told me. It's not required and, honestly, not very obvious."

Another thing that's amusing this is that if you don't know what prostitution is, this game won't teach you.

Here's what happens:

- Pull up to a prostitute (who, btw, only looks like a prostitute because we're aware of what they are and how they stereotypically dress. To a child, she's just woman dressing up slightly fancier than other women.)

- She gets in the car.

- When you get into a secluded area, the car will shake. However, there's no movement inside the car. Turn the camera around, switch to 'cockpit view', do anything you can to peek inside and you see two people sitting in the car on their own side.

I find the media's attention to the prostitute aspect of that game ridiculous. It's okay to show 'Girls Gone Wild' commercials on TV, but we need to pick on GTA3 because we can sensationalize it and scare those parents out there who have no idea what the game is really like.

Re:Progress?

[misfit13b]

This is progress?

This is insightful? Don't like it? Don't play it and don't let your kids play it. The rest of us will make up our own minds. The game didn't sell millions of copies cuz people hate it you know.

Go figure that /. is the one place where a user named "ChaoticChaos" could be so stuck-up.

Now instead of replying, go ahead and mod me down.

Re:Progress?

[dalamcd]

The remaining 0.1% would get just as easily turned on by a million other things, including hundreds if not thousands of literary "classics", many of which are mandatory reading in schools. As an example, the main character in a Mark Twain books has another character killed for telling a bad joke (IIRC correctly, anyway--the book in question is A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court). Movies, TV, books, games... a dead bird on the sidewalk, stepping on an anthill, shooting a BB gun... Too many things are just as likely as anything else to make a certain kind of mind go "hey, I can kill/maim/hurt/steal". Blowing any one of these out of proportion is just stupid.
Basically, anything can be a trigger. Whether it's going to be tripped or not at any point is impossible to determine.

None of this is to say "why bother trying?" but merely to go after the _cause_, which is not necessarily the trigger.

dalamcd