| mamec said: MGS cannot compete whit GTA and both appears at probalby the same time (early 2008). |
Except MGS coms out earily 08 and GTA IV comes out at least in Spring 2008, that's a few months between them more than enough that they don't even have to compete.
Also, MGS 4 is bigger in Japan, so that will help its sales too while GTA is still not that big in Japan. Add to that the fact that MGS 4 is a PS3 exclusive meaning more PS3 owners will consider getting it because of that.
I wouldn't be surprised if we saw GTA IV get delayed all the way to summer 08 or even holidays 08. Take Two needs as much profit out of that game as possible because they are in bad shape, so they will wait long to release it and have larger userbases to release to.
Same reason why SE is not hurrying with FF XIII, they had a certain profit in mind and they are waiting for the userbase to get to a point where they project to make that.
These kinds of big games are supposed to bring big profits not just profits so I expect delays with these sort of 3rd party games to go on. The 1st party games are being released to also sell systems, so Sony and MS try to get them out quickly to sell more of their consoles, but 3rd parties can take their time and wait on a game and work on it before releasing so that they have more players to sell to.
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