Why I think GTA V will be a PS3 exclusive.

[grrr]

)rStrangelove]

It may be disagreeing with my point but you sir deserve a cookie.

Thx for the cookie, but i'd rather have GTA V on PC. I would play it on PS3, but only if i dont have a choice i guess. I guess. Depends whether it seems worth it. So far i saw nothing out of the ordinary in that trailer. It looks like another DLC for GTA IV.

You're welcome, as a big fan of IV I have very high hopes for V and the trailer made me convulse and froth at the mouth.

 

[srm79]

Why I think it won't:

Rockstar love money. Loooooovvveeeeeeeeee money. They'll find a way to make it work on 360, even if they have to hamstring the crap out of it and put it on 6 discs. Just look at the lengths Squenix went to to get the piece of crap FFXIII on 360.

That's the reason it was a piece of crap. Squenix admitted to having to cut a lot of stuff out that they had originally planned to make it feasible for the Xbox.

 

[jthwilliams]

I don't even know how to respond to this. So I'll simply say "no" at most a game like GTA would give a 1 month or 2 month release exclusive. GTA V made way too much money on both the XBOX and the 360 for this to be a viable option. Sony and/or Microsoft would need to pay them around 150 million for exclussive right to be viable, and quite frankly there is no way it would create enough attach sales for that to make sense.

Exclusives generally come from studios that are owned by Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo, are created for a technology that only exists on one console, or are not expected to sell all that well in the first place.

*EDIT*

I'm so confident that it will not be a PS3 exclusive that I will .... well I can't think of anythign but I'm really confident on this. And before you call me a fanboy, I own both a PS3 and a 350 (and a Wii and a DS and a PSP) so it doesn't really effect me one way or the other.

If I were a stock owner in Rockstar and they did an exclusive release, I would put in a vote of no cofidence and insist that the board hire a new CEO.

 

[grrr]

Why I think it won't:

Rockstar love money. Loooooovvveeeeeeeeee money. They'll find a way to make it work on 360, even if they have to hamstring the crap out of it and put it on 6 discs. Just look at the lengths Squenix went to to get the piece of crap FFXIII on 360.

That's the reason it was a piece of crap. Squenix admitted to having to cut a lot of stuff out that they had originally planned to make it feasible for the Xbox.

Didn't that only marginally increase sales anyway? No one with a 360 cares about FF. Although that one sucked anyway especially after the awesome that was XII.

 

[grrr]

I don't even know how to respond to this. So I'll simply say "no" at most a game like GTA would give a 1 month or 2 month release exclusive. GTA V made way too much money on both the XBOX and the 360 for this to be a viable option. Sony and/or Microsoft would need to pay them around 150 million for exclussive right to be viable, and quite frankly there is no way it would create enough attach sales for that to make sense.

Exclusives generally come from studios that are owned by Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo, are created for a technology that only exists on one console, or are not expected to sell all that well in the first place.

They've bagged timed exclusive rights for GTA before they could theoretically do it again.

 

[jthwilliams]

I don't even know how to respond to this. So I'll simply say "no" at most a game like GTA would give a 1 month or 2 month release exclusive. GTA V made way too much money on both the XBOX and the 360 for this to be a viable option. Sony and/or Microsoft would need to pay them around 150 million for exclussive right to be viable, and quite frankly there is no way it would create enough attach sales for that to make sense.

Exclusives generally come from studios that are owned by Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo, are created for a technology that only exists on one console, or are not expected to sell all that well in the first place.

They've bagged timed exclusive rights for GTA before they could theoretically do it again.

I would grant you that, but time exclusive for a month is no where near the same thing as exclusive.

 

[grrr]

Of all the games that don't deserve to be bashed, its Grand theft Auto. The company Rockstar took something that might have died, gave it new life. It could be a exclusive, but then again Xbox owners got Dark Souls. Be a bad move because both systems can handle it unless this one is just gigantic.

Rockstar likes to one up themselves so it'll probably be a gigantic game. Red Dead was huge, this'll probably be even bigger, not to mention that this will have buildings.

 

[grrr]

I don't even know how to respond to this. So I'll simply say "no" at most a game like GTA would give a 1 month or 2 month release exclusive. GTA V made way too much money on both the XBOX and the 360 for this to be a viable option. Sony and/or Microsoft would need to pay them around 150 million for exclussive right to be viable, and quite frankly there is no way it would create enough attach sales for that to make sense.

Exclusives generally come from studios that are owned by Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo, are created for a technology that only exists on one console, or are not expected to sell all that well in the first place.

They've bagged timed exclusive rights for GTA before they could theoretically do it again.

I would grant you that, but time exclusive for a month is no where near the same thing as exclusive.

Well I'm sure that they'd get it for more than a month otherwise that'd be an awful deal especially since the extra time would probably just mean that the 360 version was a bit better.

 

[saucecode]

I see your point, but I don't think Rockstar will make a huge game exclusive to a single platform, because that is just unesessarily narrowing the market.

While the hardware on the 360 is dated, im sure it will run fine with a few tweaks (Considering its DirectX... :\).

 

[Racecarlock]

But a 360 is the only current generation console I have. What, exactly, do you expect me to do? Buy a ps3 just for one game? No.

 

[grrr]

But a 360 is the only current generation console I have. What, exactly, do you expect me to do? Buy a ps3 just for one game? No.

That is exactly what I expect you to do.

 

[jthwilliams]

I don't even know how to respond to this. So I'll simply say "no" at most a game like GTA would give a 1 month or 2 month release exclusive. GTA V made way too much money on both the XBOX and the 360 for this to be a viable option. Sony and/or Microsoft would need to pay them around 150 million for exclussive right to be viable, and quite frankly there is no way it would create enough attach sales for that to make sense.

Exclusives generally come from studios that are owned by Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo, are created for a technology that only exists on one console, or are not expected to sell all that well in the first place.

They've bagged timed exclusive rights for GTA before they could theoretically do it again.

I would grant you that, but time exclusive for a month is no where near the same thing as exclusive.

Well I'm sure that they'd get it for more than a month otherwise that'd be an awful deal especially since the extra time would probably just mean that the 360 version was a bit better.

Time exclusives tend to be about 30 days. Otherwise the publisher is worried they'll loose sales because people will forget or move on. Any type of exclusive is a risk for the publisher. They don't like doing it and the usually only do it for money or advertising which comes to the same thing.

For example bethesda is doing a time exclusive on their DLC for 360, but only for 30 days. Why because if it goes beyond 30 days, they will definately lose sales from people who decided to play something else rather than waiting.


Also advertising the fact that your game or you DLC exists is expensive and the campaigns are designed to get bigger an bigger right up till release day to maximixe the effect. If you then need to pay to keep the momentum going, it gets really expensive.

I'm not sure the longest platform exclussive that wasn't caused by the developer not having enough money to do simultanionus releases was, but it wasn't very long.

 

[stormcrow5]

If it is it will be timed. I doubt they will let that much money pass them by and make it for only 1 console.

 

[Get_A_Grip_]

Maybe timed exclusive DLC?
I don't see Rockstar releasing the game on only one system at launch.

 

[Racecarlock]

But a 360 is the only current generation console I have. What, exactly, do you expect me to do? Buy a ps3 just for one game? No.

That is exactly what I expect you to do.

Well congratulations then, your expectations of real human behavior are about as realistic as piloting a galaxy sized robot against what is essentially god and then beating it with the power of hope.

Unless you're joking. Please tell me you're joking.

 

[jthwilliams]

But a 360 is the only current generation console I have. What, exactly, do you expect me to do? Buy a ps3 just for one game? No.

That is exactly what I expect you to do.

actually no. the theory behind attached console says has been highly discredited over the past few years.

Of all the games that don't deserve to be bashed, its Grand theft Auto. The company Rockstar took something that might have died, gave it new life. It could be a exclusive, but then again Xbox owners got Dark Souls. Be a bad move because both systems can handle it unless this one is just gigantic.

Rockstar likes to one up themselves so it'll probably be a gigantic game. Red Dead was huge, this'll probably be even bigger, not to mention that this will have buildings.

And no mater what it will not be bigger than Skyrim. And both systems handle that.

 

[MrPeanut]

Well, whatever happens, I'm sure Rockstar will give PC gamers the finger with yet ANOTHER shitty port.

 

[AssassinFisH]

Ha ha ha ha ha, I have seem some pretty dim threads in my time, but this one takes the cake! Give yourself a cookie!

 

[42]

Here's why it won't be an exclusive. *ahem* because speculating about an exclusive game for any particular consoles based off the only thing that rockstar have told us so far, which is bugger all, as they so far only released a 1 minute trailer which just gives us A setting.

And let's face it, Rockstar ain't stupid, they make tons load of money off the xbox market, so why would they not release it on xbox?

Why can't we just be surprised by something for once?

 

[Il_Exile_lI]

Not to be rude or anything, but this is really a dumb topic. There is a 0% chance of GTA V being an exclusive to any platform. GTA IV was finished for 360 months before it actually released because Rockstar was finishing the PS3 version. If you think Microsoft didn't try to get that to a be timed exclusive, you're dreaming. Rockstar probably named a price, and it was too steep even for MS. The fact is, with the type of numbers GTA games do, it would take huge sums of money to buy the exclusive rights, and at this point in the generation, neither Sony or Microsoft would spend that kind of money when most people have already bought their console this generation. Console Manufacturers buy exclusive rights to sell consoles, not games, and this late in the generation that money isn't as well spent as earlier in the generation. And before you say Sony had timed exclusivity for GTA games last gen; yes, that is correct, but last gen Sony was outselling both their competitors combined, this gen they are in third place. The kind of money Rockstar would need to make up for the lost 360 sales is something Sony just can't pay.
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