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Exclusive GTA IV Content for PS3 Too
One of Microsoft's happy announcements at this year's E3 was exclusive content for Grand Theft Auto IV on the Xbox 360. Eurogamer is now reporting that the PS3 will get its own exclusive content for Rockstar's next chapter in the GTA series. From the article: "How many additional areas or episodes Rockstar is planning is anyone's guess at this juncture, but it seems the game is at least being structured to accommodate a number of expansive new content releases in the weeks and months after release, while also satisfying platform holder - and console owner - demand for exclusive material. Though with 'exclusive' being a somewhat elastic term these days, especially where Grand Theft Auto is concerned, we wouldn't be remotely surprised if you end up playing 'exclusive' 360 episodes on your PS3, and vice versa. One thing's for sure - there's nothing more certain to piss off the fanboys than a level playing field. "
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I think its just like Soul Calibur II. On Wii, you can play as Link and steal chariots and horses. On XBox, you'll get Spawn who will get Seth McFairlane designed rides to steal. And on PS3, you'll get Heihachi Mishima who doesn't need to steel a car because he has grown out his righteous hair into WINGS!
...but I can't stand GTA on consoles anyway - the aiming doesn't work very well. Hopefully the PC version will get all the extra bits.
Since when have we ever had a level playing field? Every console has it's ups and it's down (from graphics to joypad config). Each one is rather unique in this way. So you will never find two consoles on a truely level playing field.
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... with the hot coffee content. Now they're marketing it as "exclusive content?!" Goodness, they must be gluttons for punishment!
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I guess, since they have all that extra space on the blu-ray discs...
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Now I'd have to buy BOTH consoles if I wanted to experience all the story! Woo!
It only makes sense that with all of the consoles offer online downloads of game content, any cross platform game is going to eventually have all content on all platforms. After all, they loose money not doing so and frankly I think gamers would be more pissed to see content withheld for no reason. Would anyone really be happy if the new Obvlivion quest were only for the PS3 instead of being made availiable to all platforms?
Gamers should rejoice that at last we are seeing the end of exclusive game content for different platforms, it was just rediculous to do this.
"Fanboys" will still have plenty of other things to fight about, like Halo vs. whatever. Meanwhile us gamers can enjoy games to a fuller extent.
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Honestly, I don't see that having sex in a game (while clothed no doubt) is a first, or pushing a huge boundary. The Leisure Suit Larry games featured sex as the main premise in the game.
And it saddens me to think that having sex is worse than killing a cop in this society.
The Hot Coffee thing was a media creation. They missed the boat initially on going after Rockstar. People have targeted violent video games for ages. This just gave them a new excuse, but the actual backlash that occurred was far from warranted.
This news is far from surprising. Rockstar has been Sony-first in the past. The second they announced exclusive content for one console, I figured it would come on the PS3 and possibly Wii as well. Unfortunately with what they are talking about with GTAIV, I'm not sure the Wii hardware will handle it.
Rockstar makes money for every copy sold. If they can double their sales by getting people to buy two copies with minimal effort (making a small ammount of content exclusive for each console) then it would be silly not to do this.
You also have to realize that GTA:SA purportedly had a budget of 80-90 million dollars to make. Figure it the recall, possible lawsuits, etc. that each GTA game while in the past a success, can be a huge risk in the future. If they are spending 80 million dollars or more on the next title, they have to do everything in their power to maximize profit potential on that investment.
It doesn't take long for a publisher or developer to go under in this day and age.
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Nope. But wait until you see how many Microsoft Points an hour alone with one will cost.
It used to be that if you wanted to play any game you merely had to purchase every console. Yes, it was expensive but we did it for the exclusive games that were only available on a single system.
Now they are trying to make it so that if you want to play every bit of a cross platform game you have to buy multiple copies? Screw that. When Soul Calibur II came out with exclusive characters on each system, I responded by not buying the damn game. Here it looks like Rockstar is trying to generate artificial demand for downloadable content; something else designed to extract money from gamers.
Yea, yea, feed me the line about games costing so much money to produce now. I don't care. Movies cost several million dollars to produce and you can buy the DVD for a single Andrew Jackson. Gamers are being charged three times that much for something that only cost a fraction of the price. Yes I understand that there are other factors here... I'm not that dense, it's just that they don't need to nickel-and-dime us afterwards.
I'm tired of companies raising prices and then charging more for the "privelidge" of playing online. I'm tired of companies cramming questionable tech down our throats that only raises cost and causes delays. I'm tired of games that are strictly service based even though you still have to pay full retail price. I'm tired of companies charging me yet again for games that I already own; I mean I already have two copies of Super Mario World, two copies of Super Mario 64, and three fricking copies of The Legend of Zelda and for only 23 more dollars, I can play them all on one console. Hooray for shovelware.
Yes I'm ranting. Sorry about that. The whole thing just makes me wonder why I play games anymore. Can I at least get an "amen"?
*Disclaimer: all mentions of exclusivity are valid for only three months.
Well, I'm sure that this has been said, but Rockstar didn't get in trouble for having sexual content; the problem was that they did not announce that such content existed on the game discs. Sure some user gained access to the content by unusual means (so I'm told) but it was still accessible and undeclared to the ESRB, which resulted in the backlash.
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Anyone who's heard of the GTA series knows there is cop killing and hookers, but until the whole 'Hot Coffee' fiasco, I'm sure no one thought there was a minigame designed around the premise of pleasuring a woman.
Anyway, I was just being facetious; don't take me too seriously
The content did exist on the disc, but it could only be accessed via a mod to unlock it.
Most any game has content that is cut from release, and fairly often these orphaned data files still ship with a game.
I don't think you should be held accountable for something that can be only accessed via third-party tools, or added to a game after release by third parties.
Hell, there are nude sprite patches for Super Mario Bros.
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Thanks, but I think I will wait until the version on the PS6 for.
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I don't think you should be held accountable for something that can be only accessed via third-party tools, or added to a game after release by third parties.
I agree, and the thing that I always found so freaking amusing about this was that the only way to unlock this material was to go on the internet, in the case of a child presumeably unsupervised, and download the patch to apply to the game.
Oh noes!!! You mean there is a way for a child to see nudity if he goes onto the internet without adult supervision! My god! Those Rockstar bastards have a lot of nerve acting all innocent when they are directly responsible for this situation. Before this, it would have been impossible for a kid to see pornography just by browsing around the internet! Erm...
It still makes me chuckle to think about it. So damn clueless, some people are...
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