GTA IV : Rockstar rep says "complete experience" only on 360

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Bodhesatva said:

mrstickball said:
Ummm.

Wasn't GTA a PC-only game at one point, and every iteneration on the PC at every stage of the game?

Sony didn't make GTA a succuess, considering the PC started it all. Yes, later on, once 3-SA came out, it was huge on the PS2, but thats because of the userbase, and the fact they did a great job on the UI for the game - GTA already had its great merits, and was a good seller on PC already.

That's largely correct. GTA -- and sandbox games in general -- began on the PC. The genre exploded on the PS2, but they didn't start there.  In fact, other than survival horror (which I think one could argue began on PCs with Alone in the Dark, but I'll say Resident Evil is different enough to say that it was the true creation of the genre), pretty much every genre "invented" in the last 15 years has been on the PC: FPS, RTS, MMO, Sandbox. 

As a side note, GTA I and GTA II were eventually ported to the original PS.  

True, but Grand Theft Auto one and two can barely be considered the same games as Grand Theft Auto Three. I really did enjoy the very first game in the series, but Grand Theft Auto III on the PS2 really was what started a whole new genre.