Vice City To Xbox, Not GTA? · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by simoniker on Tuesday July 15, 2003 @03:29PM from the bizarre-whisperings-du-jour dept.

Thanks to IGN Xbox for their report that Grand Theft Auto:Vice City may be coming to Xbox this Christmas, but without the famed 'GTA' name. According to the piece: "As many insiders know, the Grand Theft Auto series is supposed to be PlayStation 2 console exclusive, however sources reveal that Rockstar is circumventing the agreement by stripping the Xbox version of the title Grand Theft Auto, and simply repackaging the game as Vice City." If true, this would mean that Rockstar wouldn't need to wait until after the next GTA game was released to lose Sony exclusivity, and could put out suitably renamed/rebranded GTA titles on other consoles sooner, rather than later - a fascinatingly sneaky concept.

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I heard a rumor by foniksonik · 2003-07-15 17:15 · Score: 1, Offtopic

That Microsoft was also planning to use this sort of loophole to circumvent the DOJ anti-trust issues around Windows by simply repackaging it with a new name.

Anyone hear similar rumors?

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