| darthdevidem01 said: Didn't Rockstar themselves said somewhere that it was gonna be a timed PS3 exclusive, but Ken Kutaragi said they didn't need it as a timed exclusive & his arrogance made them make it multiplat. (basically back in the day when everyone in the press was flaming kutaragi this news story came up). |
GTA 4 was always timed exclusive to PS3 like previous GTA's on PS2.
Rockstar had an exclusivity agreement with Sony for PS3.
But when PS3 didn't sell well.Sony knew they will be making even more profit if GTA 4 pushed PS3 systems.Also Rockstar would have made loses even with Sony's exclusivity money.
And MS offering Rockstar the money,Sony knew they as it is were maing loss and causing their one of the closest devs to sell less copies would have put stress on Rockstar and Sony's relationship.Also it would have lower GTA's popularity.
So they went multiplat plus took MS's money(MS's money wasn't that important cause it was mainly that PS3 would have made more loss and GTA sales would have been down so fail for each side,sold more copies and Rockstar and Sony had a further 3 exclusive game agreement with rockstar.they could be anything.
so if now Rockstar were to release a GTA exclusive,PS3 would make profit as they are now,more systems would be sold,game sales will also be high so MS's money would this time matter but Sony could cut it out
