MS is finally doing the smart thing and playing up its advantages (despite the manditory install being recommended for its version as well). It's their best bet and making this game "theirs" in America. If MS was really smart they would have rockstar make an exclusive spin-off Japanese/Yakuza GTA for the 360 to get some greater leverage in Japan.
Though with sub-Wii level graphics (models at the very least, I imagine the environments are beyond the Wii's capability in their scale) I wonder how 360/PS3 owners, now content with HD graphics as the standard, will respond to the game. I wonder how it will fair with reviewers? The bar is set high, I just hope people's expectations aren't that of anything that much greater than what San Andreas/Vice City/GTAIII was.
Will this be another franchise that falters as it stumbles into this generation? Will this be another lemming race like Halo3 where everyone rushes out to buy it the first week then sales drop off dead almost immediately as everyone second guesses their purchase? Who the hell honestly knows. I don't expect this game to be bad at all, but with something this big you know everyone is going to suspect the worst by default. With so much hype its only inevitable that even the best game can't live up to the PR standard created for it.
