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Grand Theft Auto IV Unveiled On 360
Despite expectations that this would be the least eventful of the E3 pre-conferences, Microsoft's Peter Moore drops the news that Grand Theft Auto IV will be on Xbox 360. Rockstar and Microsoft have teamed up to do exclusive episodic content in the GTA gameworld for the 360. Slated to release October 16, 2007 in North America, October 19 in Europe. Other details include lots of support for Live Arcade titles (Sonic, Galaga, Street Fighter II), the official unveiling of Shadowrun for the 360 and PC, the airing of the Halo 3 Teaser Trailer (which is already on Xbox Live), and much discussion of 'Live Anywhere'. This last is an expansion of Xbox Live to PC and cell platforms in addition to the Xbox arena.
The game will be released for both the PS3 and the Xbox 360 on October 16th, 2007.
The Xbox version will have "episodic releases" via Xbox Live.
way to read the press release you linked to :p
"Grand Theft Auto IV will be simultaneously available for the PlayStation®3 and Xbox 360(TM)"
I think that settles it.
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if anyone wonders, here the original Summary:
Grand Theft Auto IV Unveiled As 360 Exclusive
Posted by Zonk on Tuesday May 09, @04:03PM
from the didn't-expect-that dept.
E3 Microsoft XBox (Games)
Despite expectations that this would be the least eventful of the E3 pre-conferences, Microsoft's Peter
Moore drops the news that Grand Theft Auto IV will be an Xbox 360 exclusive.
Thank you Mr. AC! Folks, please mod the AC up so people can see what a fucking douchebag Zonk is.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
"The Basic PS3 is crippled."
Hardly the Base PS3 has pretty much the same feature set as the top of the line 360. Does the 360 have an external HDMI port? Nope. Both machines can do HDMI with a break out cable via their multi-out connectors. The base PS3 is lacking the ability to do dual HDTV, but is that really an issue for most people, I doubt it.
Let us see what else the base PS3 is lacking.
-WiFi built in, you can add that the same way you can add WiFi to the 360.
-The card reader, humm the 360 doesn't have one at all. If the PS3 is as multimedia based as Sony claims you probavbly will be able to connect a standard USB card reader to it, if you want to transfer photos and the like that way.
So the ONLY things you will give up with the base PS3 are a built in card reader and WiFi (both of which can be added later), and an external HDMI port for dual HDTV support. Guess what these are exactly the same features missing from the 360.
There are enough good reasons to think Sony has made an error with the PS3, that you don't need to go making up reasons.
AFAIK, VC and SA is based on the GTA3 engine. GTA4 is a new engine, hence the new name.
Uh, ok...
Let's compare features of the high-end packages:
HDMI support
PS3 - included
Xbox360 - N/A
802.11
PS3 - included
Xbox360 - Add-on available for $100
60gb HD
PS3 - included
Xbox360 - N/A, only 20GB HD available
Motion-sensitive controllers
PS3 - included
Xbox360 - N/A
Blu-ray
PS3 - included
Xbox360 - N/A, HD-DVD available (someday) for additional cost
etc... Hell, the Wii is going to include motion-sensitve controllers and wifi. I'd rather drop $600 up front to have those features included, instead of $400 then piecing the damn thing together when/if components come together. Say you spend $400 for an Xbox360, then add wifi. That makes it $500. Now add HD-DVD which will be at least $100, now you're up to $600. That's the cost of a high-end PS3 and you still don't have all the features it includes. But hey, to each his own.
Sony is messing up big time in the gaming world, the PS3 is just the latest bastard creation where they didn't listen to the market or the players.
As for games, they can't even hold developers to the PS3 platform because of the lack of developer support and CRAP development tools for it.
They have a great Cell processor technology and even Sony doesn't seem to understand the best ways to get the most out of it, let alone provide developers with tools to do so.
Can you give ANY proof to back up those claims?
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Rockstar has said that the current GTA Series are all part of the "GTA3" universe. That is, Grand Theft Auto: 3, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Grand Theft Auto: Electric Boogaloo are all "GTA3" in a sense. Rockstar has said that after San Andreas they want to take a long hard look at the series, and retool it so that GTA4 is going to be a leap like the one you saw from the second to the third.
I don't know if this is still the case but I remember them making a big deal about it between the release of Vice City and San Andreas.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.