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Microsoft Shells Out $50 Million For GTA IV Content
Ars Technica is reporting on the highly-anticipated downloadable content for GTA IV mentioned by Microsoft at last year's E3. It appears that, first off, that content is only coming to the Xbox 360. Secondly, Microsoft paid some $50 Million for the privilege. This is from a financials conference call held by Take Two, and a question about a deferred payment from Microsoft reveals the general release schedule for the content. "The first 25 [million] is for the first episodic content package that's supposed to go out and that is in March of '08. That's why it moved into current because it's in the next 12 months. The second 25 [million] will be for the second episodic, the episode, and that will be later in fiscal '08."
I don't really know about "evil". I haven't read a fairy tale or seen a Star Wars movie in a long time. But, I loathe pretty much everything about the XBox. My point is that MS needs to improve their product, not get more titles. More titles are always good, but they're pretty pointless if the system itself sucks.
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It's big. It's loud. You have to buy a (shitty) remote control for playing DVD's. Playing DVD's sucks. The controllers are clunky. Online access costs money. If you leave it on with nothing in the drive, the damn thing has some B-grade sci-fi movie "beep and boop" sounds that are annoying as hell. Graphics seem to be a lot less sharp than on the PS2. That's just the stuff that I can think of off the top of my head. My GF got one, and those things annoyed me so much that I never used it after trying it out for a few weeks. Ugh.
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I can't compare the XBox 360 to the PS3 'cause I ain't got neither! I can't imagine that much has changed with either in the meantime, but yeah, you're right. I'm comparing the PS2 vs. the XBox.
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