Could the True Blue Megaton be GTA5, PS3 exclusive?

[Onyxmeth]

Megadude said:

Instead of ragging on us for having a little fun why don't you join in. The point you are missing is that here we are speculating, thus it is not an arguement to win or lose. There is no "defending party" even if some people become defensive when such speculation is contrived. 

 

I will ask you some questions now and you will not be able to give a concrete definative answers to them only your best guess or speculation:

1. Going into this gen, before they or anyone knew what the sales of any of these consoles would be, Sony must have known that GTA3/VC/SA was a huge factor in PS2's success. Why would they not aggressively seek out a contract with Rockstar in order to preseve this advantage?To answer this question you may need to throw away everything you've learned from VG charts about sales, userbase etc. Because you will need to actually put yourself in Sonys shoes before this generation even started.

2. What has become of this elusive, exclusive IP which R* has promised Sony?

 

This is my fun. I enjoy having healthy debates with people on here. If you want me to have your version of fun then fine. Let's just think up two scenarios and flip a coin to see which one wins. Or let's think up six different scenarios and roll a dice. Maybe we can make a board game out of it. What I don't get is you presenting information online and then ignoring what that info says. Ultimately, if you wanted a fun and free thread, you should have just notified everyone to check their logic at the door and just made this a joke thread. Trying to speculate a scenario is inviting logic, trends and information into the thread, so telling me now at page 3 you're just fucking around is too little too late. You've already taken this thread far too seriously yourself, by arguing back and forth with those disagreeing with you.

Now for the answers to your questions:

1. Maybe Sony did seek out a contract with Rockstar and Rockstar simply refused. There's nothing stating Rockstar has to accept any agreement Sony puts on the table, since the ball is ultimately in Rockstar's court on where they want to decide their top franchise is going. By not signing a contract at all, it allows them the freedom to make their own choices, which is precisely why Rockstar is an independent third party studio in the first place. Or as another scenario, maybe Sony themselves felt they'ed be in the same situation as last generation, meaning the third parties would be groveling at their feet to make exclusives for them. In fact, wasn't Sony's stance going into this generation that they wouldn't be purchasing exclusives from third parties? Or, maybe...just maybe...it's one of a thousand other plausible scenarios, only a few of which actually lead to your end result. I can speculate for days, but to narrow the numerous scenarios down, that's when the logic comes in, so we can decide whether GTA V is more likely or whether Rockstar making a fitness simulator for PS3 for $400 is more likely. Both are possible, but that doesn't mean it's worth discussing, unless we can begin narrowing the likeliehood of each down with what we already know.

2. No one knows. Maybe it's being made. Maybe it's not. I don't need to speculate on it the same way I never had to speculate on a thousand other long forgotten projects that eventually got made or got scrapped. Ultimately though, the only info you have that suggests the existence of an exclusive project is that blog post you provided, and it clearly states it'll be an original IP. Go back and actually address my earlier points if you want to continue discussing this, because I have provided sound reasoning why there's little reason to think a scrapped new IP would in turn become the next Grand Theft Auto game. It just doesn't make sense. If it happens then it happens, so be it. I wouldn't care, but it isn't even remotely likely and you know it.