Sony would've won with GTAIV

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#1 aka_aj03
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Sony screw up big time... by not backing up GTAIV. With GTAIV, Sony would've won the console war. With MGSIV hitting in June and GTAIV April and May... it would've been all PS3. Just imagine... a GTAIV bundle in April and MGSIV bundle in June... only if GTA was exclusive... just saying.

Oh well... still cool :) as long as I have my copy of both games.. and that is all matter.

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#2 Bloodseeker23
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M$ buy off GTAIV, ain't Sony fault.
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aka, I officially declare that you have to post in every thread on Gamespot Forums, just for your gif.
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#4 bluewrxman
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shoulda coulda woulda...whats done is done...

and i love the sig...

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#5 Ericvon71
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Sony screw up big time... by not backing up GTAIV. With GTAIV, Sony would've won the console war. With MGSIV hitting in June and GTAIV April and May... it would've been all PS3. Just imagine... a GTAIV bundle in April and MGSIV bundle in June... only if GTA was exclusive... just saying.

Oh well... still cool :) as long as I have my copy of both games.. and that is all matter.

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#6 Blackfriend8
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yeah i love that famous line by sony "we dont buy exclusives". well they should have if they bought GTA exclucitivy it would have been all over.
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shoulda coulda woulda...whats done is done...

and i love the sig...

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Yeah.

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#8 Duckman5
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Well maybe but M$ would never have allowed that. Bill gates might have actually opened his wallet personally if Sony tried to keep it exclusive. Also nice sig. :P :twisted:

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#9 aka_aj03
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Really, Rock Stars was behind PS2 all those years... and Sony was being cheap or something this gen. If Sony gone exclusive with GTAIV and the PS3 was still $600... the PS3 will sell like hot cake just for GTAIV...
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#10 ZenesisX
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they could of but sadly enough, they didnt:(
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#11 Roman_Irishman
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Yeah well at least we didn't lose it totally. In my opinion though MGS4 and FFXIII is enough to win the war anyway and there's other things too.
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#12 Duckman5
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Microsoft payed 50 mil just for downloadable content. :? I'm still sure that if Sony wasn't being "cheap" or whatever that microsoft would've just shelled out more money to make it multi plat.
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#13 aka_aj03
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Yeah well at least we didn't lose it totally. In my opinion though MGS4 and FFXIII is enough to win the war anyway and there's other things too.Roman_Irishman
GTA is a big market world wide... haven't Sony learn that from the previous GTA titles on the PS2. Yea but you're right, FFXIII, MGSIV will push the console war... and let not forget GOWIII :D
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#14 CJL182
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With the 360 being released a whole year before the PS3, Sony would have had to pay an INCREDIBLE amount to retain exclusivity.
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#15 shroom76
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rockstar would have said f that anyway, everyone moved to 360 insetad of ps3.

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#16 winner-ps3
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who said they lost?
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If only that girl was in my bed... Id be up all night!
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#19 Dr-Strangelove
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If it keeps Take-Two out of EA's hands I don't mind, anyways everyone should have fun with as many games as possible.

Although It would have been one hell of an exclusive.

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#20 IppotheFighter
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Sony wanted it to be exclusive but didn't want to play rockstar 300-400 million to make it exclusive.
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#21 bluewrxman
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Sony wanted it to be exclusive but didn't want to play rockstar 300-400 million to make it exclusive.IppotheFighter

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Sony screw up big time... by not backing up GTAIV. With GTAIV, Sony would've won the console war. With MGSIV hitting in June and GTAIV April and May... it would've been all PS3. Just imagine... a GTAIV bundle in April and MGSIV bundle in June... only if GTA was exclusive... just saying.

Oh well... still cool :) as long as I have my copy of both games.. and that is all matter.

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Did you ever think that maybe sony tried to make the game exclusive by coming up with money for R* but MS just kept coming up with more and more money to get the game on the 360? I can seem MS throwing all kinds of money at R* to have them make this game for the 360 and also R* knows they will make that much more money by selling the game on both consoles. By the way I been watching your sig and daddy likes the jiggle, she got a nice set.

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#23 ocdog45
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i agree. they should of doubled moneysofts price IMO. handsdown this would of been the start of the take-over.

Sony screw up big time... by not backing up GTAIV. With GTAIV, Sony would've won the console war. With MGSIV hitting in June and GTAIV April and May... it would've been all PS3. Just imagine... a GTAIV bundle in April and MGSIV bundle in June... only if GTA was exclusive... just saying.

Oh well... still cool :) as long as I have my copy of both games.. and that is all matter.

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#24 odin2019
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i agree. they should of doubled moneysofts price IMO. handsdown this would of been the start of the take-over.

[QUOTE="aka_aj03"]

Sony screw up big time... by not backing up GTAIV. With GTAIV, Sony would've won the console war. With MGSIV hitting in June and GTAIV April and May... it would've been all PS3. Just imagine... a GTAIV bundle in April and MGSIV bundle in June... only if GTA was exclusive... just saying.

Oh well... still cool :) as long as I have my copy of both games.. and that is all matter.

ocdog45

Something tells me that it just wouldn't of been that easy. I really think had sony done that MS would of just doubled the offer again. I'm not sure how much sony would have to put out on the table but I can imagine quite a bit if I was in R* shoes seeing as they know that everyone on both consoles is going to buy their game pretty much.

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#25 IppotheFighter
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^^ i think everyone knew this but sony.
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#26 aka_aj03
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the main dude from R* and T2-forgot his name- said that the next GTA is going to be too big on the dvd...sound like a exclusive to me if the next GTA come out in 2010 or something or before next gen start.

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#27 haze_blaze
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Yea. But even GS would not have given GTA IV a 10/10 if it was a PS3 exclusive. But even if it'd got all 8's it would have moved a lot of consoles... so yea, Sony missed a big opportunity by losing exclusivity on this one. But they were facing too many losses from the production of the PS3 at the time anyway... they couldn't afford to buy exclusive rights. I'll be interested to see both the sales of the game & sales of the consoles for this month & the next.
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#28 deactivated-5cf0a2e13dbde
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GTA alone would not have won the console war. both systems still have at least a few years left in them. And Sony had nothing to do with Take Two and Rockstar selling the rights to Microsoft.......
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#29 rohver
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Yeah, Sony would have probably have a lot of advantage if GTAIV was ps3 exclusive
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#30 trav_have
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I bet if it was PS3 exclusive it would not have gotten a 10.
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#31 mvp2488
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I really dont think that it was possible for sony to have gta as an exclusive b/c some probably forgot that during the ps2 lifecycle gta was an exclusive give for a certain time period, then it came out on the original xbox afterward so i think that this is what really propelled gta 4 on 360 due to the fact that gta 3 and vice city were already on xbox, and alittle extra money thrown in their by m$ didnt hurt either
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#32 jeremiah06
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i can see it now GTAIV exclusive right after the game got a perfect score ps3 price shoots up to $1000 lol maybe its a good thing Sony didn't jump on it
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#33 C_BozkurT_C
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yes but everyone deserves to enjoy this masterpiece.
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#34 RoganSarine
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Really, Rock Stars was behind PS2 all those years... and Sony was being cheap or something this gen. If Sony gone exclusive with GTAIV and the PS3 was still $600... the PS3 will sell like hot cake just for GTAIV... aka_aj03


That's because the ps2 had no competition for vice city and GTA3 days... And they stuck on the PS2 for SA because the install base was minimal for the original XBOX, and the development for it wouldn't have been worth it... Atleast, that sounds good in writting :P