If true then good move, MS.

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

I knew Microsoft paid a large sum some say 50-million for the timed exclusivity of the DLC. I never heard that they paid to have the title released multiplatform. RockStar brought the older GTA's to the origional X-Box (Late but still there) so I don't think Microsoft would have had to pay much for them to release it multiplat I'm sure Microsoft helped them in the decision making but paying 25-mill to make the title multiplat sounds alittle farfetched.

If Microsoft really did spend 75-mill for the multiplatform release and timed exclusive DLC then that was a massive waste of money. Microsoft could have produced 3-big budget 360 first party titles for that amount of cash and I can guarantee many X-Box gamers would have rather seen 3-more first party titles then GTA4 multiplatform, or exclusive DLC.

Microsoft charge ~ $10 per copy manufactued in royalties to every publisher so they probably broke even off the deal - if they didn't change their royalties rate for Rockstar. Chances are a good portion of this $75 million wasn't an actual exchange of money but just slashed royalties anyway...

I do think there is some truth but no one can be really sure - L.A.Noire gets caught up in this somewhere and when this story leaked 5 years ago or so Rockstar owed Sony 3 exclusive games. Maybe Agent will be a trilogy though? lol.

It's very interesting imo as I think the future of 'exclusivity' is now in these sorts of deals and suchlike and it sounds like Sony is going to be entering the arena of money hatting from what they've said and where rumours are pointing. Might find out a bit more at E3.

I'm wondering if they got the money back by selling more consoles which results in selling more games ....

What's the status of Agent?

Define waste?

LOL!

maybe he means that they didn't move that much copies and consoles through gta4 to make this deal efficient

im confussed as to why the units sold on each system proves its more popular on the 360? how many Units had each system sold at the time?