GTA Sony Exclusivity Reaffirmed - For Now

Posted by simoniker on Monday September 8, 2003 @06:25AM from the ngage-version-can-only-be-weeks-away dept.

Thanks to GamesIndustry.biz for their article discussing Take Two's comments on console exclusivity for the Grand Theft Auto franchise, following the surprise announcement of the GTA 'double-pack' for Xbox, which came about because Take Two/Rockstar had "amended its exclusivity deal with Sony, which had previously prevented the games from appearing on any console other than the PS2." Despite this amendment, Take Two CEO Jeffery Lapin confirmed "...that the next [GTA] game will be on the PlayStation 2 (not the PlayStation 3 as has been speculated by some commentators) and will have an unspecified period of exclusivity on that platform." He also stated that the company "currently has no plans to bring the series to Nintendo's GameCube", but might re-evaluate if "financially prudent".

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Re:These companies are so dumb by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-08 07:37 · Score: 2, Informative

There are a couple reasons. First it is quicker to develop for one platform, and the second (and probably most important) is that when a game is exclusive the platform maker, be it sony or nintendo, gives the game maker a bigger cut of the profits. I would also suspect (though i have no proof of this) that when a company signs a deal to develop a game exclusivly for one platform they make a deal that the platform will give them a good deal on profits for other smaller, less surefire games. So by making GTA3 PS2 exclusive, Rockstar probably got a good deal on making State of emergency exclusive (for a short time) as well thus making more money on that game than they normally would have.