Microsoft pays 50 million dollars for GTA Exclusive Content

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This is huge for MS, and the money is pocket change for them. C'mon, MS MAKE something like 5billion in a quarter! This is 1% of their quarterly profits ---> nothing.

Its fantastic for 360 fans, great for the 360 sales - and great for Xbox Live. How many people will HAVE TO get Xbox Live now just for this.

I expect this to sell about 4:1 -> 360:PS3 over its lifetime now. The only question is, how do both versions of the game compared? Have T2 focused their efforts on the 360 (leading skew), with the PS3 coming 2nd - or put maximum effort into both platforms?
(360 leading wouldn't surprise me, with the 360 having a huge lead on the PS3 outside of Japan)

If the PS3 version gets considerably better scores than the 360 version, the situation may change. But I don't really expect this to happen because:

 - hasn't been enough time to "fully" tap the power of the PS3
 - PS3 effectively will have less RAM available for the game than 360 version
 - PS3 version will "load slower",  given  that the streaming speed of the PS3 BluRay drive is less than the 360 DVD drive (but then the PS3 version can use the hdisk - although the 360 version may as well, and most people with 360's have premium 360's).

Sony are (no doubt) in development with several GTA clones - but can they compare to the quality of GTA4, and can they match the (massive) brand name that is GTA? 

The console wars have suddenly got a lot hotter and more serious... bring it on!