| Leetgeek said: Question: Why wasn't GTA on N64 or Gamecube? |
There are lots of reasons for this ...
DMA Design Limited (which later became Rockstar North) was one of the developers Nintendo wanted to make part of their "Dream Team" and they moved into a second party relationship (exactly like Rare did) on the N64; Nintendo and DMA simply did not see eye to eye on anything they did, the relationship soon became strained and Nintendo released DMA from their contract.
One of my teaching assistants was from Scotland and came to Canada after receiving her Masters degree and she worked for DMA while in school. Her assessment was that Nintendo's constant push towards high quality polished gameplay above all else made Rockstar the developer it is today; she also said the relationship mainly fell apart (in her opinion) because Nintendo was taking the same aproach they took with Rare which was to try to (in ways) turn them into a copy of Nintendo while everyone within DMA at the time wanted to move in a different direction.
Edit: When a relationship like this breaks-up because of unreconcileable differences people on both sides are going to have very bad feelings about it (just like in a divorce). It can take a long time for both parties to gain perspective, or a change in management, and one company would have to reach out and try to mend the hurt feelings.
