Sony to Buy Rockstar

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Hawk said:

leo-j said:

rasone77 said:

If this is true, expect Rockstars profit to shrink (at least short term) unless Sony pays most of their Dev ocsts that is or not all the games become sony exclusives.

I still believe Sony has a chance when/if blue ray wins the format war.

Are you krazy?

A GTA game on the ps systems exclusive will WILL move hardware easily tripiling sales. Your lucky this is a forum you pissed me off, I would go raging with mad words on you. What rockstar game sold bad on a ps console?

  Ok, I've never bought a GTA, haven't been interested.  But I just did a quick search on vgchartz here.  So GTA: Vice City and GTA: San Andreas on the PS2 both sold over 14 million.  How could rasone77 be wrong in saying Rockstar's profits would shrink?  At max, their games would sell 4 million right now if EVERY PS3 owner bought their game.

   I think the deal would be a bad idea for Rockstar, if Sony isn't throwing something extra in.  At least short term, just like rasone77 said.  But if this goes through, it sure will be a good deal for Sony. 

Of course there profit would shrink if they were not gunna do it on the 360 (its common sense) but thats not to say it cant sell more then 15 million copy's. GTA games have that lasting apeal. If GTA4 were released on the PS3 only then I would expect sales of the PS3 (just in America) to jump in the millions for that month.

GTA is a hit around the world. Its biggest in Europe, then US, and it sells pretty decent in Japan (look at GTA:SA and GTA:LCS). If GTA were released I would expect worldwide console sales of the PS3 to be in the 3 million range. GTA is that popular.