Truthfully I dont care if games are exclusive as long as its comming to the PS3. I just had it when its exclusive to another console like Dead Rising.

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Isnt dead rising made by capcom? It should come to the ps3 soon.

Ya maybe but all im saying is that Exclusives arnt really exclusive unless the company that owns the console pays for it.

Sony did not 'pass up' the exclusive content. MS got the game to be multiplat, and then they approached R* about the possibility.

On the topic of new IPs, it is true that they haven't been lighting the sales charts up, but neither did Halo for the Xbox right off the bat--once people experienced it, loved it, told people about it, and convinced them to buy an Xbox for it, that was how Halo 2 and 3 became so insaenely popular. I don't know if a game like Uncharted or Warhawk will garner such massive sales, but, as has been said, you do need to wait for sequels to find out how well these games REALLY did.

Dead Rising won't come to PS3--it's true that Lost Planet did, but it didn't sell nearly as well on the 360 as Capcom had hoped (I believe it only recently reached a million?) Dead Rising was sold out everywhere when it came out (on the first day, I had to go to 10 stores before I found one that wasn't sold out in minutes.)

I would rather have a new IP (L.A. Noire) than extra-content that I will have to pay to just extend my gameplay experience with GTAIV.

Rockstar's track record so far seems as though they are a one hit wonder with the GTA franchise. I would be skeptickal about their other stuff. Sony should have fought for the DL content. The Warriors, Manhunt, and table tennis didnt exactly sell crazy.

"The team is founded by Brendan McNamara, former boss of Team SOHO.

Based in Sydney, Australia, Team Bondi is an independent developer with an exclusive agreement with Sony Computer Entertainment America to produce up to 3 titles for the next generation of PlayStation, PlayStation 3. The team is building up to a production process that will involve more than 100 employees: artists, programmers, designers etc. [1]. It currently has more than 80 employees."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Bondi

So that means that Team Bondi is making the game exclusive not Rockstar. So I think this means that this is one of Team Bondi's exclusive games. So Rockstar will still have to make 1 more for the PS3.

If im correct.

Every franchise has to die sometime, sometimes its lack of creativity and sometimes its circumstance or maybe the fans just decide to let it go. The PS3 may unfortunately be the circumstance if GTA5 is PS3 exclusvie a factor which will diminish the franchises' fanbase to the point that it can no longer sustain itself as the giant it used to be. Rock Star really needs to be careful with how they handle their cash cow franchise. I'm sure they're convinced people will buy it no matter where it goes, but... then again I can think of a Company who thought similarily of their next gen console this generation and let's just say that such arrogance hasn't paid off as they would have hoped.