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Breaking News from E3: Next GTA will be PS2 Exclusive!!

Old 05-13-03, 05:57 PM
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Breaking News from E3: Next GTA will be PS2 Exclusive!!

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GTA Series Remains PS2 Exclusive

By: Sam Kennedy May 13, 2003 12:37 PM PDT
E3 2003: At its pre-E3 press conference minutes ago, Sony Computer Entertainment announced that the next installment in the insanely popular Grand Theft Auto series will be found exclusively on the PS2. Unfortunately, nothing else regarding the next GTA title was revealed. Oh well.



GTA Remains PS2 exclusive link

File that one in the "No Brainer" category.
Keep in mind that this says nothing about GTA3 or Vice City coming to the XBox or GameCube. It's only regarding the NEXT GTA game.

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Oh yeah.. that's a real shocker..
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Sony signed a 4 year deal with Rockstar last year, so this was a no-brainer like you said.
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I see Vice City for PC at Best Buy.
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I think it will probably be an exclusive for consoles. I imagine Sony doesn't mind porting it over to PC.
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Exclusive... but for how long?
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Yeah, sony has a 4 year exclusivity deal on GTA games on the consoles.

PCs aren't included.

Apples and oranges, PCs really don't compete with the consoles.
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I thought they announced GTA3 and Vice City for Xbox and Gamecube a few weeks ago? Due in 2004. I read that at IGN, so take it with a grain of salt.
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The 4 year thing may well be a time exclusive deal, rather than total exclusivity.

With the time lag we'd be looking at here, it would be as good as full exclusivity anyway.

The only people GTA games would sell to on the GC or X-box are people that aren't into the series enough to buy a PS2 for (or else they would have bought one and the games by now), so Sony isn't losing any system sales by the eventual ports.
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I thought they announced GTA3 and Vice City for Xbox and Gamecube a few weeks ago?
Take Two didn't announce it - a financial analyst said he expected them to come out then (after the end of the Sony deal). Nothing was announced.
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It will "debut" exclusively on ps2, not necessarily remain exclusively on ps2.
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Has anyone heard any info on the new GTA game? As far as new features, vehicles, yada yada.....
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I believe Sony has a total exclusive deal with Rockstar on the GTA series until the four years is up.

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